big haul!??
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big haul!??
What is the largest load you guys have pulled or hauled? Half ton? 3/4 ton? Engine? tranny? Im sure I'll hear some good answers. As wore out as the motor in my truck is, it has never backed down from a tow strap.
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about a ton of construction grade aluminum, gotta love that I6
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We used to have an 86 dodge 250 power ram and we had 4000 lbs bags of potting soil stacked up 8 feet high on 2 pallets. It still had enough to carry more. It ran fine and drove fine. You just gotta strap it down good and load it right.
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My trucks 8400 or so empty, I've hauled 4 tons of gravel before. I recently had 4k lbs of salt in the back, plow on ft and pulling a 18 ft trailer with a John deere compact tractor. POOR little 351!!!!
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that 351W was just like "that all?" freakin tanks these old engines
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yes, very true. Those are the largest loads that have been hauled by me is to the scrap yard. About.. 3 miles down the road. Can be good $. either a bed full, tow strap or a 15 foot trailer. 351 windsors are a nice and strong running engine, but I love the 300 six, 302, and 351 engines. Never can decide which is the best really. But, I love the 4 speed manual low geared. Makes a difference. Really good ol' trucks
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they have put the 351 w in half tons, three quater, and my friends dad just bought a one ton crew cab with a 351 w. They are a strong motor. Use to drive one when I worked on the farm that miss fired. It still was quite strong on seven!
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wow, scrap prices are decent. That is a decent amount of money from aluminum! The prices were higher though. Welcome to Fair Salvage Company! - click on prices.
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definitely, 300 horses stock with 318 lbs/ft of torque it easily out does nissans V6 and is equal in horses to subarus prized EJ257 both of which are made for racing.
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i have been thinking for some time, about keeping a camera handy, and snapping shots of these old trucks still on the job.
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makes me feel like a wuss for leaving the quarry with 2 1/2 ton (11,500 gross). that hoist electric or pto? I'm going to try and fabricate an old hoist with integral pump and have a couple gear housings to try and mount on the side of my 4spd. Going to try and do all this under my stock dually bed and any height I get from it I will make up with body lift on the cab. Modifying some 20 in rims to run commercial tires on this too.
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I like your guys stories Had to pull the other Massey Ferguson out with my truck again. Who said you need 4wd?? I got only 2wd. Packed snow can be a pain to plow with the ole' tractor. Wishing I bought that plow truck