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Beautiful pictures but it makes me REALLY glad I live in South Texas.
Thanks. Funny, it makes me really glad I live here! Nothing like snowmobiling or snowboarding through waist deep powder. Anything over ~80F and I'm about dying, lol.
Pulling 3500+lb on the bumper, slow and steady. 1996 F150 XL 4.9 2wd E4OD. Drilled the bumper out so i could put a 2-5/16" ball on it. She's not fast but she always gets it done!
Pulling 3500+lb on the bumper, slow and steady. 1996 F150 XL 4.9 2wd E4OD. Drilled the bumper out so i could put a 2-5/16" ball on it. She's not fast but she always gets it done!
I hope you don't haul that much weight with the bumper very often, I don't think they are rated that high. I would definitely recommend you install a frame mounted trailer hitch, unless this haul was just a one time thing
I hope you don't haul that much weight with the bumper very often, I don't think they are rated that high. I would definitely recommend you install a frame mounted trailer hitch, unless this haul was just a one time thing
I know that the factory bumper on my '85 F-250 was rated for 5000 lbs. I think that might be a little unusual, but 3500 lbs certainly doesn't seem out of line.
I know that the factory bumper on my '85 F-250 was rated for 5000 lbs. I think that might be a little unusual, but 3500 lbs certainly doesn't seem out of line.
Yeah the 95' F150 my family had for a work truck had a 5k lb rated factory bumper. My 96' had a Luverne rated to 10k. They're usually bolted on with plate much much thicker than the frame. My issue is you can't adjust ball height. But as long as they're not all rotted out, and you can keep the trailer level, shouldn't be a real issue. 3500lbs isn't terribly heavy either.
I know that the factory bumper on my '85 F-250 was rated for 5000 lbs. I think that might be a little unusual, but 3500 lbs certainly doesn't seem out of line.
Originally Posted by GoinBoarding
Yeah the 95' F150 my family had for a work truck had a 5k lb rated factory bumper. My 96' had a Luverne rated to 10k. They're usually bolted on with plate much much thicker than the frame. My issue is you can't adjust ball height. But as long as they're not all rotted out, and you can keep the trailer level, shouldn't be a real issue. 3500lbs isn't terribly heavy either.
Wow, I would never have thought a stock bumper would be rated for that much.
But with me being as paranoid and as cautious as I am I wouldn't haul that much with a bumper, plus my F-250 is way too high to pull anything from the bumper anyway.
Yeah last i read up on it they were all rated for 5k up until 1997 for the f150. Found it strange though that it came with a 1-7/8" ball rated for 3000, and the hole was only a 3/4". Nobody makes 2" or 2-5/16" ***** with a 3/4" shank, had to drill mine out. Just seem strange that they would rate the bumper for 5k and only let you put a ball on it rated for 3k and under... gotta say though, the plate where the ball sits is easily capable of handling more than 5k, its gotta be almost 3/8" thick. The weak point is not the bumper but the bumper mounts.
With 2 "kids" in their low 20s a lot of the work my truck does is moving kids: to college, back for the summer, off to an apartment. This time it was moving my oldest son (23) from one apartment to another....
Moving kids again. Again my oldest son (now 26), this time moving him back into our house. This is the second of two loads. The first was about the same size, pretty much filling a 6x12 U-Haul trailer and my truck with stuff that was going into "long-term storage" in his brother's basement. This load came to our house.
OK, this time it wasn't just loaded up, it was loaded DOWN! Doing a landscaping project so I had Menard's stick a full pallet of concrete pavers in the bed. Having them use a forklift sure beats putting 84 pavers in by hand! The sticker on the pallet said 3404 lbs which squatted the back of the truck down 5.5". 45 mph top speed on the way home with that!
Was asked to move a "tiny" house about 50 miles down and up a river canyon. I had the camper installed and didn't want to remove it. They think the house weighs about 8000 pounds. Truck did well, but really slow on a steep incline. Braking was fine. I have a receiver hitch on the front and was able to maneuver the house around a rock that a tractor was not able to navigate. I had about a 18" extension on the hitch.
Hopefully this photo works. I can't see how to upload an image to my gallery, so here's a link to Google photos, hope you can get to it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/NXXusHUYNPXQbhU37
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