Well we went to pick up some hay the other day and might have gone a little over the recomended weight. We loaded 15 1800lb bails on a trailer that weighs 8000lbs. We started the 80 miles back to home and had no problems. The truck pulled it better than I would have ever dreamed, it had no problem pulling that weight at 55 and 60 mph and even stayed in 6th gear most of the way. The integrated brake control is amazing, the truck had no problems stopping and would even stop hard enough that it made me worry about the top bails. All in all I was very very happy with the way the truck handled the situation, I know our 01 7.3 would have had an extremely tough time with this kind of load.

 

Nice I used to hot shot a few years ago I would carry some really heavy things. I picked up at overseas shipping container in California and took it to cloadcroft new Mexico the container weighted in a lil over 40,000 and that didn't include my 40 foot goose neck.

 

question this seems to be an everyday things where farmers carry this much weight short distances. Questions being how does this affect the life of a vehicle, i know this is not an every day thing, but adding 3 times the weight has to kill the suspension. Next is how do you get around being over weight for legal and insurance issues.

 

Well when I was hot shooting you register to carry x amount of weight Idk how farmers to it.

 

I carried 30k-40k on daily basis never destoried a suspension

 

hay doesnt look super fresh, maybe its the lighting. Old wet hay weighs more then new fresh stuff right?

 

Depends on the state laws.....up here farmers get a lot of exemptions but they cannot exceed the gvwr of a truck+trailer combo....so if its rated to haul it they do....

 

i can only imagine what my '97 half ton pulled around before i got it... you can tell it was beat on. (Before me that is) and i've overloaded it quite a bit myself with about 9,000 pounds of hay (trailer included) and boy did it squat... It had to work for the 10 miles of hilly gravel it pulled! I can see where you've heard it destroys suspension, but if its on smaller vehicles its more likely to happen.

 

thats what I wondering as I dont think a dually is even scheduled for that much weight.

I know trucks can tow more than they are rated or even what they weigh. Semis weigh a ton but not that much and still tow 80k

 

The hay was bailed 3 hours before we got there. Fresh hay that is still green has a lot of water in it, old hay that has dried out is lighter. This hay had been dead for awhile, but its still about half green. The guy that bailed it took a couple of the bails and weighed them and they averaged around 1800lbs.

 

Im sure we were not even close to legal, however when your cows are starving you gotta do what you gotta do. No this is not an every day thing, its 2 loads every year for us. I wish I could see what the GVWR is for my truck, but I bought it with 10,000 miles on it and the guy that owned it before us managed to rip that half of the door sticker off in that amount of time. The truck is a F250 crew cab short bed lariat, if anyone knows what the GVWR for that setup is I would appreciate it. The trailer is rated to carry 28,000 so we were fine on it, but I know the truck was not supposed to have near that on it.

 

GCWR IS 23k-33k depending on your gears.....link>>> media.ford.com/images/10031/2011_SD_Specs.pdf

 

Its the 3.31 axle, so 23,500 GCWR or 15,700 loaded trailer weight. Ya we were a bit over.

 

bah who cares! did your job didn't it?

 

Nope I wasnt questioning or judging just more curios that anything else. Note to self never buy a truck from a farmer, Lol.

I would just be careful and hope your insurance is good, one of those bails falls off on the road and kills somebody, could be a big time issue.