F350 Super Duty vs 3500 Denali vs The Ike Pulling 30k lbs

Huntindog wrote:

For the first time, I have seen, the Ford performed the way one would expect according to it's ratings..... BUT.... It was cold and wet.

It did perform very close to where you would expect when you factor in that it gives up about 13 hp for every 100 rpm it runs below its rated 2800. So by running in the 2100 to 2500 rpm range instead of 24 to 2800 it gave up about 40 ponies.