2013 Ford 3/4 ton vs ton GAS

Grit dog wrote:
If you have the choice, get the 1 ton.
If you're dead set on a 6.2 Ford gasser to pull a decent size 5ver, please do yourself a favor and drive one with a good load behind it before buying.
It's a pretty anemic engine, power wise. Like plan on 2nd gear wound up at 5000rpms going 40 mph up EVERY hill, even the little ones.

Before someone refutes this, realize I just took my new (company truck) F250, 6.2, 3.73's from WA to AK towing a 2 place enclosed sled trailer with about 1000lbs in the truck bed. Less than 5k lbs total load and trailer.
Alot of the northern roads were bad so took it slow for the most part.
Got 8mpg and it was gutless going up hills. Little hills were an immediate drop to 3rd gear. Bigger hills were 2nd gear wound up. And no high altitude either. All 4k ft or bleow.

Same drive again with my diesel, grossing close to 18k between the camper and a trailer. Much worse aerodynamics, waay more weight, got 12.2mpg overall and only had to drop 'er out of 6th gear due to EGT's or road too curvy to go 60mph.

Interesting observation; I have a neighbor who went from an 05 Ram 5.9L to a 2012 6.2L gasser F250 and he swears up-and-down that the 6.2L F250 pulls just as strongly & at the same speeds up grades as his CTD did, albeit at higher RPM and burning more fuel. And he tows here in AZ, where big, long, nasty climbs are the norm. There are things he says he misses about his Ram but he swears that engine performance isn't one of them.

He had the auto in his Ram though; your G56 might put power to the ground in a more perceptible manner.