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Originally Posted by Vintage Windmills

Your truck weighs 4780 empty?

nice haul!

I had a sheet of plywood down under the gravel to keep from scraping up the floor, a full tank of gas, me, my son, and a friend with me in the cab so that is about an extra 700 pounds. I think it weighs in right around 4100 pounds empty.

I wish I had pictures of when I was younger my mom and dad hauled some pretty crazy loads with my truck before I took it over. I know back when I helped my dad with hanging drywall he sent me from Truckee to the Reno Home depot to get some drywall (70 Mile round trip, with a mt pass on I-80 somewhere around 6000 ft elevation) I had the sheet rock stacked about a foot over the the top of the bedsides (I think I had 65 sheets) and they were 12 foot sheets. I just googled it and they weigh 84 pounds per sheet X 65 sheets = 5460 pounds! This was back when my truck had a 351 V6 in it, and it pulled the pass with 6% grades doing 65 all the way. Keep in mind I was 17 at the time . Another time when I was 15 my mom drove to the gravel yard and we had the loader load it till it squatted good, when we weighed out it had over 5000 pounds in it. Good times!