Posted: 3/27/2010 6:57:30 PM EDT
It's just a guideline 
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to answer the other posts before I go to sleep (early morning tomorrow)
it is all fun and games until I break a spring, then I put another set in, again, my next truck will be a 3/4 ton again (I have gone though a few springs, cold weather kills them it seems, well that and the rough roads I have to drive to get to work) I had no real problem steering, either on gravel or pavement, I just could not fly along as normal the straps are only there to hold logs from rolling sideways, I loaded all the logs in interlocking, the straps are rated for 400 pounds each, so I was legal for the way I was loaded, but had I taken it to the max legal height I would have had to use stronger straps, and my truck would have died (I can go as high as 14 feet, but with wood, too heavy, even for a truck I don't care about) next days off I will grab more wood, hopefully birch if I can find some 
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I run 12 ply tires, on a 3/4 ton Dodge.
When I load heavy, I put 110 PSI in the rear tires. Crossed the scales twice over 14,000 pounds. truck weighs 6900 empty..... yes it can carry 3 and a half tons of rock. I have over quarter MILLION miles on it, runs about like when it was new.. |
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it is all fun and games until I break a spring, then I put another set in, again, my next truck will be a 3/4 ton again (I have gone though a few springs, cold weather kills them it seems, well that and the rough roads I have to drive to get to work)
Try a Silverado 2500HD next time - full floating axles & a set of leaf springs that look un-possible to break. 
I bet that little load wouldn't even compress these springs enough to level the truck; 
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I can top that - in high school I worked for a local guy building decks. For one job the lumber company failed to deliver nearly half of what we ordered.
Since the lumber yard was about a mile away, my boss decided we'd go pick it up.... - 10 bags of sackcrete - 10 8 foot 4x4s - 10 8 foot 2x10s .... in a 1987 Towne & Country minivan. .... in a single trip. I have no idea how we didn't have springs shooting up through the body. He had the accelerator floored and we were barely making 10 mph on a 15 degree incline. EVERYONE we drove past looked at us like 
My biggest concern is that I was 20 miles from home and he was the one who dropped me off. Somehow we made it. |