dlister70

I was pouring a concrete pad and needed 10 bags of concrete. They were 80 pounds each, so it was an 800 pound load in the back of my '92 two wheel drive.

The guy at Menards who helped me load it said he thought I was going to break my pickup hauling that much in the bed.

I really didn't think 800 pounds was all that much for the pickup, and it wasn't sitting horrifically low or anything.. but it made me wonder what the most weight I could haul would be. What if I needed 15 or 20 bags instead of 10?

How much weight have successfully hauled in the back of your Toyota?

scope103

That's interesting; would you load 1500lbs in your pickup just cause "some guy on the internet" claimed he did it once?

You have a "1/2 Ton" pickup, and the manual (for my '94) says 1100lbs cargo (with 1 or 2 occupants). Your friend didn't get the job at Menards because he knew anything about trucks.

I'm sure you could load 1500lbs, but all bets are off the moment you start moving.

DetroitStyle

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according to the manufacturer... max payload on your truck is 1640lbs. I think 800lbs is OK

oldblue

i collect scrap metal from work and recyle it when i get a big enough load. it usually weighs between 1200 and 1400 pounds. truck handles it like a champ, sags a bit but it does that without a load too.

93toyota4x4

I brought home a load of hay for my father-in-law last fall. 28 bales, 50 pounds each = 1400 pounds. That is about the heaviest but I always haul big loads of firewood, gravel, hay, scrap metal, the truck has never let me down.

TNRabbit

1982 lbs....

TNRabbit

...or, 1670 lbs.....

nothingbetter

A moose. A big moose at that. 49" spread but from 200 meters it looked like about 30" relative to the body. I'd guess around 1200lbs after caped and cleaned. Got some good laughs with the legs sticking out at odd angles.

ksti

Not to bust OP's thread, but TN those are some nice chunks. Do you make something out of them or cut up for firewood?. Made me want to fire up my chain saw and leather face around the neighborhood.

TNRabbit

Used them to defend a receding shoreline~

Nearly broke my back on those; they were at least 200 lbs EACH

ksti

Well I hope they did the job. They look like back breakers. So its looks like about 1200-1400lbs, looks like your rig handled it well.

TNRabbit

Almost 2000 lbs; the big one there behind the driver seat was over 300 lbs, & all were OVER 200....

ksti

Well that's even better, also a nice rig. Take care.

wyoming9

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I pretty much load between 800 to 1200 pounds on a regular basis.

Then with the normal load of tools and other goodies and me that is a easy 600 pounds more.

iliketoyota

you guys hauling 1000+ pound loads should swap some 63 inch chevy springs in....then it would really handle the load well

highonpottery

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^or swap in some leafs that fit our rigs w/o any modifications, like OME Dakar leafs. that's what I chose to swap into my truck since i bought it to use as a truck and hauled many loads of dirt, compost, and rocks for landscaping my front and back yards. stock leafs just didn't cut it and i was riding on the bump stops. after OMEs I was all good. I don't do it too often, but the most I like to put in is around 1500# of casting slip (liquid clay) in 5-gal buckets. i find that anywhere over around 1200+lbs, the brakes just aren't up to par on our trucks to safely stop abruptly.

combatcarl

1/2 cu. yd. of 3/4 minus river rock. I have no idea what it weighed, but was sitting on bump stops the whole way home. Didn't help the butt-sag any, I'm sure.

93toyota4x4

Stone is usually around a ton to the yard so you would be around 1100 pounds.

RickyZ

I once had 14 80lb bags of mortar sitting on the back of my 86. All behind the wheel wells cuz the pallet couldn't fit farther front. Fortunately it was only a few miles because 1100lbs hanging off the back doesn't make for a balanced ride...

Nimyad

Mine starts getting scary around 800lbs+. But that's with a solid axled 3rd gen and soft suspension.