How much Elephant **** can a 3500 carry?

[Pit Bull]

How much Elephant sh*t can a 3500 carry?

We have a deal here in Springfield Missouri that the local Zoo sells truck loads of Elephant **** for $30. 00 a truck load. It is great for growing the old garden. A friend of my wifes says that the Elephant **** is real heavy and they can't handle more than a 1/3 bed load in their 8 foot bed Ford F150. How full of Elephant **** can I load my 2000 3500 QC 4x4 with the camper special equipped rear end? I've taken a lot of **** in my life but this is the first time I have paid for a truck load

 

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[DiTrani]

I'd guess that with a 3500 with the extra leaf you could easily triple what a F-150 could carry. I had 50 50# bags of 'crete in my camper special equiped 2500 the other week and the suspension didn't seem all that used up.

 

[Ted Constantine]

Just load it down. The load will not be in the truck very long. With a 1/2 ton I have never seen one that could hold a full bed load of any thing. If you think thwe truck is sagging to much just stop loading. I have never had a problem with to heavy a load. Once it hits those helpers it is like a rock (not a chevy reference )



Ted

 

[ISBPilot]

Load the Wagon...........

I have a custom metal flatbed that is pretty heavy already and have hauled up to 2 tons (4000 pounds) of cattle feed on it at one time. That finally made it ride smooth... ... :-laf :-laf :-laf .



Todd

 

[Ted Constantine]

I forgot to mention after you drive around with that Elephant Sh*t you will not want to go back. It will ride like a Lincoln.

 

[dezeldog]

Elephant I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER

How do you load??? Just back the elephant up to the truck and tell him/her "Fill it up". lol I think you could put the 150 in the 3500 and fill'em both up with no problem IMO

 

[Okie-Go]

It would also make a weight difference if the manure was wet or had dried out a little bit. I remember this from cleaning out stalls on the farm.

 

[Tom G]

Window Sticker Time

Well this sounds like a ****ty question here ;-)



Got into my filing cabinet and looked at my window sticker to find out what my payload rating was. This of course is less fuel, people, etc and etc. Anyway my truck is rated as 4,090 lbs with the 3. 54 axle.



All I can tell you is yesterday I hauled 2000# of landscaping dirt home and there was still about 1" or more of clearance from the overload spring supports. I also have the camper package.



Don't know specifically about your truck or a 4 X 4 for that matter but I would just load her up until you hit the overloads. The Cummins won't even notice a 1 ton load

 

[JWhitcomb]

Just load it until it hits 5K. My back hurts from just thinking about shoveling it out, thats a lot of wheel barrow loads.

 

[redramnc]

I figured out years ago that the bed volume in my 78 Dodge W200 8' bed to the top of the wheel wells was approximately 1 cubic yard. Somewhere or the other I was told/found out that a yard of dirt weighs approximately 1 ton. I never did weigh a load of dirt but I can tell you that I did manage to put 2 tons of rock into that truck and she didn't hit the spring stops. The 2 tons of rock was approximately 2/3 of the bed volume (and a lot of sweat to empty her).



My wife won't let me haul that kind of stuff in my 96 as long as the 78 is still alive so I can't say how well the new body does at extreme loads.



My trick is to stand back and watch the body settle as the weight goes in. When it starts to squat the rear more than the front I stop filling. This helps account for loads dumped a little far back in the bed versus front-loading the bed.



I have hauled more chicken manure (properly aged) than I care to think about but elephant dung has got to be a differnet beast.



Hope your neighbors live far downwind ... Have fun unloading it.

 

[Turbo Thom]

dezeldog... ... LMAO



Back up, put in a peanut, pull the handle and fill er up. Reg please. No hi octane.



Too much.



As far the truck, put in the elephant and take it home. Put the shovel away.



. . Preston... .

 

[dezeldog]

elephant I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER

Turbo, damn good idea about taking him home. Problem is that you'd have to finish the job in a hurry. Sure as hell wouldn't want to fill him up again. (feed him)

 

[D White]

My father has a 3500 with a custom flatbed, 1/4" floor. He trucks hayliage bales that weigh a ton each, from the fields to the farm. 4 at a time!! Steers a lot easier, suspention is all used up and then some. Right down on the rubber pads. I keep waiting for it to break, he really gives them a test. Wants to try 6, so far hasn't. Hopefully wont!!



Doug

 

[Bigsaint]

Quick story on elephant turds... . a few years back, the circus was in town. A few of us were working it as a extra duty assignment and someone came up with the grand idea of placing one of those pellets on the pass. side floor of the Sgt's car. The Sgt. was/is an old time horse guy, so I guess he never noticed the smell. At the end of the tour, he locked up his car (oh yeah, windows were up as well) and it stayed that way for the next 8 hours. The day watch Sgt. ( now the Chief) came in and got hit by the blast head on. I reported for work the next afternoon to find the Sgt's car parked with every door/window open and a can of lysol on the hood. The elephant turd was resting peacefully on the grass, which still grows very strong come each spring. If you don't find humor in this I guess you had to be there, but I still laugh when I recall the scene of trying to scoop up a pellet the size of a 1 lb. coffee can and place it gingerly on the floorboard, LOL.



Scott W.

 

[DarrellB]

Man Scott that stinks. :-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf



Next time try Limberger Cheese on the exhaust manifold. :--)



Talk about smell:{



Big D

 

[Bigsaint]

LOL@ the cheese . The old trick used to be spraying CN/CS into a vent, or putting chicken bones under the seat. Either will make the driver cry like a baby for a short while. Only problem is that I may be the next driver



Scott W.

 

[RMH]

load

Air up your tires to the max wieght allowed and let her rip & s**T

 

[TPCDrafting]

Big, you need to move this over the 'practical jokes' thread. Hey, I used to work construction and whenever we had a big trailer load of junk to haul to the dump, we used to put a tire or a heavy pallet in the front with a chain run along the bottom to the back. That way when we got to the dump, we had the tractor guy hook on the chain and he would pull most of the load out for us. That worked real slick. Never tried it in a pickup bed with manure though. We ended up with a dump trailer. THAT is the way to haul stuff. Don't even need gloves. Just back up to the dump spot, get out and with beer in one hand, use the other to push a button to dump the load. Very nice setup. They might be rent-a-ble.

 

[shoveljunk]

truck load.

I loaded my truck with 1" rock from the job sight 3/4 full. Formen was really impressed with the truck. It barely even made it to the overload. Load time, 5 minutes with skip loader. Unload, over an hour with a shovel:--). I would have put more in, but all I could think about was the shovel.