Greatest Weight You’ve Ever Towed
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78 Chev 3/4 ton
Did a dump run after stripping an entire house of stucco. Piled it high in the bed between my tool boxes and rack.
I had 3 1/3 tons in the bed of the truck. 6,680 pounds. More than the weight of the empty truck, plus my rack and boxes without the ladders on top added about 1500 pounds.
So that was a total of about 8,180 pounds in the bed of a 3/4 ton truck.
Back end was right down on the snubbers, front end was gazing at the sky. Steering was a tad light too.... If I knew where the picture was, I'd post it here!
Brakes took some effort to hold it back.
Made the mistake of coasting down a hill at the dump in tree climbing first gear and then letting the clutch out to slow it down. Clutch must have hit about 15 grand before coming apart....
Did a dump run after stripping an entire house of stucco. Piled it high in the bed between my tool boxes and rack.
I had 3 1/3 tons in the bed of the truck. 6,680 pounds. More than the weight of the empty truck, plus my rack and boxes without the ladders on top added about 1500 pounds.
So that was a total of about 8,180 pounds in the bed of a 3/4 ton truck.
Back end was right down on the snubbers, front end was gazing at the sky. Steering was a tad light too.... If I knew where the picture was, I'd post it here!
Brakes took some effort to hold it back.
Made the mistake of coasting down a hill at the dump in tree climbing first gear and then letting the clutch out to slow it down. Clutch must have hit about 15 grand before coming apart....
