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Originally Posted by Bumpin' Yota (Post 50514015)

Trust me when I say an F350 can carry a whole hell of a lot more than 2000lbs in the bed! ;)

Our crew cab, short box, F250 is rated at 11000 GVWR. Considering she tips the scales at 7500lbs, that allows 3500lbs of cargo to be loaded in. Take 500 off for people, oil, diesel, etc and you have a handy 3000lb capacity in the bed, all within normal parameter and the truck will not be stressed in any way. That's a 250 crew cab! A 350 single cab is going to be able to handle 4000-4500lbs in its bed without much ado. What's even better is that the 350 will have about 650ft lbs of tq and 350hp to move that combined 6ton mass...;)

And to think that people complain about their 3.0 4runners being slow! LOL Drive that puppy for a day and they'd think their 3.0's were indy cars! :D

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Originally Posted by CJM (Post 50514058)

Well yea a real fullsize truck can handle way more than that 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton and 1 ton label. Trucks back in the early days were rated that way, now a 1/2 ton can haul closet to 3.4 ton and so on.

My old F250 I put like 2500 in the bed and hauled a landscape trailer complete with mowers and gear WITH EASE. All I had was the 351 too...

x2 again.

Newer trucks are labeled the same as the early days, but they are built much stronger. I wouldn't feel uncomfortable at all loading up a 1 ton Ford or something with 2 tons or more of junk. Do you guys ever see the monstrous 5th wheels and rigs that drive down the highways? Little F350 or something towing a 28,000 lb. trailer. Granted There's probably only about 1 - 2,000 lbs. on the bed of the truck, but it's still huge compared to the truck.

I just want to say that I have carried more than 1 ton of concrete in the bed of my old F350 with well over 200k. It was a long bed crew cab dually with the old International 444ci diesel. I could have put a lot more than that in there if there was room. I have also pulled a very large 5th wheel up a mountain pass in west Texas and even with out a turbo it still pulled it with no problem. I couldnt imagine doing that in a Toyota 1-Ton.

I used to own an 85 1ton 2wd.

the frame was the same(longbed)
the 3rd was beefed up
the trans was beefed up
and the rear springs were 5 leaf instead of 3(minus the overload)

I don't have pics of it online, but it was identical, visually, except for the 1ton badge on the b-pillar..:hillbill:

Well....since we're sharing...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32...r/genny001.jpg

That's a 1300lb (including crate) 12Kw Diesel generator, plus trailer (I'm guessing that's about 150lbs) sitting in a regular 'ol 2wd longbed '77.:bigok:

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Originally Posted by Phssthpok (Post 50522168)

I don't know about you guys, but aren't trailers supposed to be towed, not hauled in the back of the bed? :think:

wow i guess that still suprises me. I didnt know the rear ends were beefed up that much but that answers my question. Thanks guys