your not going to upset me. been there done that. I run 3/4 t axles under my 1/2t 4 x 4 as I don't really appreciated the chicken/s rear axle brgs in a 1/2t. that is only one part of the scenario though. you also need tires to go with it.these old bodies take a **** kicking with loads to as usually everything is usually warn out.
no matter the capacity of the truck people will always tend to overload. iused to sell for IHC and Pacific trucks back in the mid 70's and spec them out. we had a customer for whom we were warrantying his 65,000 lb axles for bending. one day the people for Pacific were waiting for one of Dick's trucks to come over the scale with a log of logs on. he came across the scales netting 275,000 lbs. end of warranty, he was just a little over.
I can also remember when I pulled my first load of logs across the scale in my old 67 HD Hayes with just a tandem axle trailer at 104,000 lbs(that is what a "B" train carries.).
I was just a little over to maybe 50,000lbs, mind you this was off highway
ron
here was a pair of Pacifics that I sold in 74 on their first trip out
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rondavid at 2010-11-19
this pic was my pic on a Pacific brochure of one of the above trucks
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rondavid at 2010-11-18