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Whats the worst you've overloaded a pickup?

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Just looking to make myself feel a little better. In a few weeks I'll be driving 200 miles to buy 2 deuce and half truck engines out of state. They are for the neighbors White 2-155 tractors. I'm told they weigh about 1800 apiece, however I'm trying to get them as stripped down as possible, as I won't need the accessories for the tractors. Worst case scenario will be around 3200 lbs I think. Truck in question is a 1998 dodge ram 2500, cummins with a 5 speed. Truck has a gooseneck hitch. Never had a gooseneck trailer but loaded I can imagine the tongue weight would be similar. Lets hear you overloaded pickup stories.
 
this is not mine but always makes me chuckle
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2 ton of barn lime on a half ton lost brakes on the way home.
best one ex brother in law ford 3/4 truck butt down with wood then backed up hooked up trailer and put jd 70 on lights were aiming at moon made 50 miles that way
 
Neighbor regularly hauled 100 bags of beans on a Dodge Dakota. 5000 lb. Once he hauled 150 bags. (50 lb.) I never seen this. They said he had them stacked on the cab and the hood plus some inside. Just had a little hole to look out.
 
1ton pellets in my Ford Ranger with heavy duty suspension and oversize tires. Did real good but had to get the load clear up to the cab.
Walt
 
I have had several. One that come to mind, in the mid 90's we grew watermelons. We were using a 86 F250 Ford. We were using a trailer and became curious how much we weighted. We went across the scales with truck trailer and melons : 17,000. We went to our home in town and added 50 melons to bed of truck. They averaged 50 pounds each. We estimated 19,500 ponds.

Same truck several years later I went to local co op and picked up fertilizer spreader with 12,500 pounds of fertilizer in it. Spreader weighted about 10,000 empty. Total weight. 22,500.

Same truck. We cut a pine tree and had it sawed into lumber for an uncle. The tree cut 1400 board feet. This tree was cut off stump Mondayand sawed to lumber on Thursday. We put 85 pounds of air in trailer tires to get them to not bulge. We hauled this 150 miles to he uncle.

98 3500 Chevrolet. Picked up two pallets of bagged fert from local supplier. knew it was a load. Only supposed to be 80 bags. Turnedout to be 100 bags(2.5 tons).

I have since become older and wiser and do my best not to over lad my vehicles. It is cheaper to make two trips than to replace the vehicles.
 
Well I did move an IH TD-9 track loader with a 4 in one bucket home 5 miles on a 1ton Ford and a tri axel goose neck and it was all it wanted. The TD-9 weigh was about 24000 lbs. Was one of those had to moved now deals. I am just glad the man didn't see this one. Never again! Bandit
 
Back in the mid 1990's I ended up with 3100 lbs of gravel in the bed of a 1986 Chevy S-10 Longbed.

Blew all the fluid out of the rear shocks. Only had to go like 9 miles on backroads. Even at 25 mph the truck wandered bad as tire sidewalls were flexing and not much weight on front end. Had hauled several loads already and the little truck had done quite well at 1800 to 2200 lbs loads. This load did not look much bigger but it sure was and I did not like it at all.

That incident was the last time, that I let the gravel pit load my pick-ups with a bucket pay loader and that was over 20 years ago. Now I line my pick up bed with 5 gallon buckets. I hand load the 5 gallon buckets myself which also saves the gravel pits minimum charge that they now place on you if they load your truck with their bucket loader. My $9 worth of gravel would cost me $30 minimum charge if they loaded it. Course a big dump truck is no problem as you can easily get more than $30 worth of gravel on them so minimum charge goes away.

I usually end up with 1400-1600 lbs on a full size truck load now and can easily place/spread the gravel where I want it when I get back home. Those 5 gallon buckets work very well. Enjoy the physical workout too. Best of all is there is very little chance that I will overload my truck this way.
 
Well the most recent (today) was one of my guys putting about 3500# of ice melt in a spreader in a 3/4 ton. Was squatted just a little. We emptied most on site before going on the road. We usually put 2500# in, that's what's supposed to happen. I've scaled over 18k with just mulch in a one ton dump. It was wet.
 
Rent a Trailer or make two trips if you have old checked tires. I assume you have old tires on this old truck. If tires are new as an example-LT 245/75R16 at 80 PSI are load rated at 3045 pounds each, so total capacity of around 12,000 lbs. Truck at 6500 lbs?? and 3600 pounds about 10k lbs. However, this assumes a 50% balance which you will not have with the 3600 lbs over the rear tires. Rear tires will be overloaded. Does you truck have helper springs in rear like you can get in a snow blow package?

Spend $40 and put the 2nd engine in the trailer and enjoy the ride.
 
Well you will not even be very heavy loaded with just 3600 Lbs. in the truck.

Have a 1990 Dodge W350. Truck and goose neck trailer weight 14500 empty. Haul 13 rolls of hay all the time. The rig weights 34000 gross. I have done this for years and never had any issues.
 
Well it is not really in the pickup but sometimes I have to move my 53 DC4 and my Geail 1600 round baler I have not weighted them yet but I think together they will be in the area of 11-12,000 lbs You ask what do I move them with 87 ranger with a 2300 4banger and a long leged 5 speed dont go fast but it beets 2 trips OH I hve a tow bar for the DC
 
While getting a half yard of damp torpedo sand in a 51 GMC 3/4, a guy in a fleetside style 1962 Dodge 1/2 with car tires, asked the loader to put a yard in the truck. The loader said it weighs more than 3000 pounds and would not be a good idea. The truck owner said "put it in". The loader had the truck driver sign a statement of intent and absolved the driver and company of liability.
The loader operator gently tipped the bucket on a 950 Cat. The bucket was very close to the rim, so as not to smash the PU.
The truck just kept getting lower to the ground till the tires were flat and the axle was into the frame. The right tire blew apart like a howitzer going off. The guy started yelling that the loader had put 2 times too much in the truck. An incident began that included the yard manager and others. The load was eventually placed in a container by shoveling (truck owner!!on the wooden end of the shovel) to prove the 2 yard idea. It turned out that there was only 3/4 of a yard in the truck, Oops.
A second idiot at a lumber yard auction put 150 sheets of 12'X4'X1/2" drywall on a 1-1/2ton flat bed chevy farm truck. The rear axle bent where it was parked it never moved. Probably in excess of 13,000 pounds Jim
 
A rented trailer would also have brakes, probably surge brakes, but they would still help a lot.
 
I am very careful about how much I put on my trucks, I hate to over load them. My 3/4 tons ill put 2 tons on, my 1 ton dually I've had 2.65 tons on. Maybe not alot but I don't like to overload them. Funny story I go to a local stone pit, idiot that runs I think it's a cat 980g loader will go into a pile of number 2 stone and fill the huge bucket, I mean that things blowing black smoke ect. He says how much you want? I said well not all of it, any way another pit I go to the guy just gets a little in the corner of the bucket, dumps it in the truck and moves the loader side to side. Does a great job loading a pickup. I ask the scale guy at the other pit how come the loader guy fills the bucket full, to load a pick up, he said that's the way we always do it?? They all seem a little short on brains there.!
 
Several years ago I had a 1972 Chevrolet one half ton pickup with big block 402 and400 turbo hydramatic transmission. I borrowed a friends 32 foot goose neck tri axel trailer and hauled an 820 John Deere, an AR and a BR from Fargo, ND. to southern Indiana. I pulled the scales up at Rogers, Minnesota and vas grossing 32,000.
I got home allright, but I should have known better than to load it that heavy.
I had plenty of power, but the stopping vas very limited.
 
My neighbor works at Granite City Steel. He told about some fools thinking they could bar one of those rolls of steel off a dock into a pickup. You know - the rolls that you see one at a time going down the interstate on a flatbed semi?
 
In 1973, I bought a new IHC one ton with a 345 V 8 and 5 speed tranny. I built a tri axle gooseneck trailer. We loaded our 30-60 Aultman Taylor and hauled it 3 miles to the county fair.
 
I loaded a one ton 1949 Dodge on a Gooseneck behind my 1997 Dodge Cummins, behind the first trailer was a 16 foot trailer with a 1955 Dodge Hardtop, behind the second trailer was another 16 foot trailer with a 1938 Plymouth car. This tri-trailer was 88 feet long. I just drove it 3 miles to the FROG FOLLIES car show on back roads. Estimate load was 19 tons, Had a escort in front and rear.
 
I had a 1982 ford f250 two wheel drive with a 300 six cyclinder that we pulled a goose neck trailer with.Once I hauled a Deere 4230 about 350 miles.The valves rattled and pinged the whole trip.The heaviest was a IH 1066 that was weighed down that I hauled 100 miles.No worry about speeding tickets that trip.Pulling a load was never a problem as the four speed had plenty of low end power, stopping was what always concerned me.DOT would lock me up for hauling loads like that today and looking back it was not safe but it was what we had to do the job.
 
Bought some 14 ft sheetrock and loaded it in a 3/4 ton 66 chevy truck. Problem all the weight was on the rear axle. Made front end light. 35 mph was as fast as I could drive.
Seen a 2 ton chevy overloaded with sand. Frame buckled just before he turned onto highway. Glad it happened in ready-mix plant driveway.
 
Wife talked me into hauling some paver bricks that were donated to the local humane society. They said maybe a couple hundred. When we got there it was obvious there were more than that. Stacked all we could in my 01 f250 trying to get half of them so we could make it in 2 trips. They counted when they unloaded and I weighed a couple and did the math. Weight per load was 3600#. It rode ok but I learned to take the ball out of my gooseneck hitch. The turnover ball upside down will hit the top of the rear axle when you go over a big bump loaded that heavy.
 
Last week. Just beat the storm home. Hauled a 14,000 lb. tractor out of Texas 1150 miles on a 14,000 GVW goose neck trailer with a 1 ton Dodge dually Cummins powered. Handled it great.
27,000 gross.
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86 1/2 Nissan ext cab 4cyl 5 spd
hooked a 16' trailor on it and loaded a Oliver 66 with 2 rear wheel weights per side
did ok for over 65 miles only problem was one light was on an uphill.
course had to stop for it and then slip clutch real bad taking off
changed clutch less than a month later and both front bearings in trannie.
had electric brakes on trailer hooked up so could stop
68 Ford F250 360 auto with original tires in 95 hauling 3 ton of stone out of a tipple
truck set level due to loading it in front of the bed only 32 miles one way in hills
same truck loaded up when moving back to city pulling that 16' trailer
got down to bottom of drive and reese hitch hit the ground, maybe too much tongue wieght?
picked it up with a loader, chained it up to the bumper and drove it a mile to buddies where he welded the hitch up to the rear bumper.
came out of the hills at 30 mph with a very light front end. only had a 53 mile trip with it that way.
stopped 4 times for the trailer tires to cool off.
bought a weight dist hitch after that.
 
Dad's 2000ish reg cab, 6' box, chevy s10, 2wd.
Bought a homemade log splitter...
built from big railroad rail...12' long, made to split 5' logs...
no idea how much it weighs....definitely too much.
drove it 150 miles or so.
 
I was buying my small square bales by the ton. I loaded 70 bales on my F350 SRW when I drove across the scales it averaged out to 69lbs per bale, 4830 lbs. That is as much as I'd want to put on it if I ever did it again, I could see more sky than road on the way home. If I wasn't walking right off the stack onto the truck when I loaded them I never would have gotten that many on, that's a little heavier than I like to heave hoe up to the truck.

Nate
 
Used to be in the older trucks [ 60's-70's ] should be able to haul what they weighed.. My '66 F-200 was a good one for that..
 
overload a pickup truck? my wife's ford f150 four door with 4 wheel drive only carries herself (125 lbs.)to the grocery store when the weather is nice.
 
When my wife was bookkeeper for my hometown, they tore up some brick streets and had the paving bricks up for grabs.

My wife cobbed onto a pile. I had, at the time, a '67 GMC 1/2 ton pickup, 250 ci six cylinder. I backed up to the pile after dark and we stacked several hundred bricks inside the tailgate where they'd be easy to unload. When we drove off, I realized the pickup was sitting on the rear axle. We only had about six miles home, and I took back roads and idled most of the way.

I weighed one of the bricks the next day and found they weighed 8 1/2 pounds each. We had something like 3,000 pounds stacked right inside the tailgate of that poor 1/2 ton pickup. After we'd unloaded, it didn't seem like we'd hurt it any.
 
Alright, get ready for this...
1973 Chevy 3/4 ton truck, custom built 350 under the hood, pulling a 1976 Chevy 3/4 trailer made up of just the box. BOTH the truck and truck trailer had custom built 2x10 bed extensions all the way around the edge to make the capacity larger. BOTH were heaped about 1 1/2 foot above the boards with wet cow s**t. Made the truck bend over and cry, but it would still pull 65 down the high way to get us home, I don't think you will have any problems. Sounds like you are just waring the old girl in. ;) Bryce
 
Hauled 20 4x6 bales at 1000 lbs per on 42' tandem dual gooseneck. Pulled it with 2003 Dodge 1 ton Dually. Total down the road prob 40,000 lbs plus. No problem, love my cummins.
Middle of the drought, gotta do what you have to , to keep the cows fed.
 

'51 Chevy 1-Ton pickup, we figured 100-125 Bu Soybeans was an average load..6,000 to 6,500#
Single 17.5" wheels.

It would always Top the hill at the river in High gear at 13 MPH..!!
Original 216" engine.

Ron.
 
My Dad never believed in trailers,, He would Routinely Overload ALL his FORD trux,,,Its a Ford ,, It Will take it,,.. that was back when they made real tuf gasser pikups ,,durin plantin season, Dad would put 2 ton bulk fertilizer in the bed , then add another half ton in bags to cap the load to keep it from blowin off ,, he ran 8 ply tires ,, the 65 Ford had a 352 motor ,,the 69 Ford had a 360 ,,going west up the 1-64 cut out of new Albany ,, you could watch the gas guage move like a minute hand on a clock , LOL,..the 352 was easier on gas,and just as powerful,,.over the years , both trux frame had bowed in the middle from the overloads of . Grain ,lumber , wood ,ect, Dad made 2 foot tall 3/4 plywood sides for hauling grain and pigs ,, that 69 ford was TUF ,, and was constantly on the go with a load,,we used to haul tomatoes to Austin ind cannary ,, we had a lite load if the tare was less than 5 k ..
 
Haul 17 5ft round bales on 2011 chev 3500drw and 34 ft trailer.Empty wt-16560lbs,loaded wt.-35800-36800lbs.Have hauled 5 loads this wk 25mi-135mi.Will do the same next wk.
 
I've had 1 ton on a Ranger... You're talking about 1.5 ton on a 3/4 ton heavy duty... That's about what it'd take to put it down on the helpers...
I think available space in the box is more likely to be a problem than weight.

Rod
 
brother had a early 80's 6.2 1 ton 4x4 chevy, gooseneck, hauled 10+ ton hay to auction (steep hills NE iowa)50 mile trip multiple times also hauled 4320 and 720 (both loaded tires) scaled in 13,000 and 9,500 for the tractor pull that day... 30 mile round trip once just never went that fast 40-45 mph top speed Have pictures of both
 
(quoted from post at 05:42:10 12/15/13) brother had a early 80's 6.2 1 ton 4x4 chevy, gooseneck, hauled 10+ ton hay to auction (steep hills NE iowa)50 mile trip multiple times also hauled 4320 and 720 (both loaded tires) scaled in 13,000 and 9,500 for the tractor pull that day... 30 mile round trip once just never went that fast 40-45 mph top speed Have pictures of both
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his thread should have been titled, "lessee who can talk the most stupid sheet!"
 
"Whats the worst you've overloaded a pickup?"

Ex-wife number eleven. When I got out of the rehab all sobered up and got a good look at her, well, she is ex-wife "No. 11". Goodness.

Mark
 
Thought I'd save a lot of money, went to quarry, said Load 'er up!!, and got a few loads home before the rear tires went. Yeh, saved a few dollars hauling fee and bought two new tires.
 
In 83 I had a rusty, smokey 67 F 250 camper special. GVWR 7500 lbs. I loaded it up for a one way trip to Vernal,Utah and drove it across the scales. Weighed just under 10K.
It had the 390/4sp in it and I flat footed the old girl all the way. Burned about 2 gallons of oil.
I had six 8.25X20 tires strapped to the roof and about 600 lbs of tools, etc on the floor of the passenger side which helped distribute the weight forward.
Made it out there without a hitch. Day after I arrived and got unloaded I had a flat tire. The rim was cracked.
 
This is just over 4,000lbs of coal in a 02 Chevy HD2500. Legally, she is overloaded by about a 1,000lbs. Truck weighs about 6,000 empty and GVW is 9,600. When the loader dumps it in, she squats down about a inch or so.
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My uncle in law has a classic 1970 El Camino SS 396. He is SUPER cheap and did not want to pay to have dirt hauled, so he had it loaded up with dirt and hauled it out in his back yard. This is a 20K car if it is kept nice.
 
Just over 5000# of seed on my old "83 F250 4x4. Probably had the old "76 F150 overloaded worse than that, but don"t remember specifics.
 
9000lb bobcat 943, on a 3300lb tiltbed trailer. Pulled by a 2009 chevy 1/2 ton pickup. Not proud of it, was told to do it by my boss at the time.
 
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