Loaded truck pics.

Now that's a full load!

 

On the older 4x4 trucks (before '97), the F-250's had leaf springs in front where the F-150's were coils, and they had 8 lug axles that were much bigger/stronger, bigger brakes, and the rear springs would hold a lot more weight. The 150's and 250's were Twin Traction Beam (TTB) front ends while the F-350 had a solid axle Dana 60. There's a ton of little differences and configurations that would take many pages to cover...

I prefer 1 ton, crew cabs with Diesel engines and manual transmissions. Im kind of picky about my trucks.

 

Super3, I like your style!

 

Same here.
If yer comin home bring a load.
Yours looks like they carry the load a lot better than my ole 1/2 ton. I'm only driving from the woods to the barn though.

 

I was talking about that f250LD the one that looks just like an f150..its the most likely to have the springs.

I think tje problem is going to be the setup and the short bed and the frame on that truck. Thats gonna be the issue with off the shelf 250 springs i think. They could be the same size wont know till you tape it. And like i said they make add a leafs that you add into the pack or slip under it they make overload springs and just replacement springs in general to get morecapacity with less sagging.

But i

 

This load from this past Tuesday...


This load of Sandy ash is from April...

 

I don't know what it is about Ford rear suspensions but I'm not impressed. I bought a new 13 f-250 last October and the suspension sag was ridiculous for a truck rated at 10k gvw. I started by adding a leaf which helped but not enough. The added one is third down from the top. Finally added air bags and I'll never be without them. These are the Firestone ride right bags and I can have the trailer maxed out with the truck bed full of wood and it still has a little rake to it. If you're gonna keep the truck a while I'd go with the bags. I had the valve run to the back and inflate them with a 12v compressor from wal-mart - works great. The leaf was a waste for me in my opinion.

 

Very nice Drvn4wood! Except I can't see the whole truck.

 

Hmmm. Well, I tried to copy and past a picture of that F150 that I put the F250 springs on from "another" site I had it on and that didn't work right. Looked right when I copied it over. Sorry about that guys.

Let's try this. She was a good worker!

 

Don't try this at home, professional drivers were used on a closed course.

 

Wow, didn't know that, and whoever told me that years ago must have had bad intel... Just goes to show ya, looks can be deceiving. Although maybe we were looking at the F250LD talked about below.... ?

Yea, maybe the LD was what he was talking about..... Was there an F250LD Super Crew model?

I'll have to look into "air-bags", I know nothing about them.... the only problem I might have is, I live on the water (SALT water), and thing rust VERY quick. My road often floods with salt water from Nor' Easter storms, so I often drive through 2' of salt water to get out or home. So if I install a compressor, it would need to be high and dry somehow...

I've had a a longtime love/hate relationship with my F150 Screw! On one hand, I blew the tranny at 36k after 3 years. The warranty covered tranny to 35k, ford told me to take a walk! Big money to replace! Then at 65k I started blowing plugs out of the head, 2 or 3 healacoils (sp?) later, I had to replace the entire head, $3,500 big ones. Ford told me, and several hundred thousand other blown heads at low mileage to take a walk again!! But then there is the fact the truck is now 14 years old, and still going strong, and looks great. Most people think she is a fairly new model until they look very closely. She has 135k on it now, so she doesn't get much mileage on it. I stopped "driving" it about 7 years ago, and only use it for hauling... But she runs perfect (knock knock knock on wood!), looks great and works fine for my light duty usage.

 

Ya know, they make trucks that arent 1/2 tons right?

Nice loads though

 

By the way, you guys are KILLING me with these pictures of HUGE loads!! I would have to make three or FOUR trips to match some of these loads!!

 

They make them bigger than 3/4 ton as well



The old 1/2 ton just keeps on plugging along though so it knows it's roll. Just a woods truck now.

 

WOW!! Kevin, what is the red one?????

I WANT it!!! No, no, no I NEED IT!!!! For sale??

 

Nice kevin

 

Nice trucks everyone.