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Overload of the Day

kenh

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There is a need for light trucks, carpenters for example.They do not need a 99 ton GVW.
Re. the Pic guy on the phone is call for a tow to dealer, making a warren claim on damage.
Other guy appears to be urinating on no good trailer tongue
 

emmett518

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Would it make sense to buy a heavy truck used, or are you buying a headache? And if you're a homeowner or small farmer, do you need a CDL and commercial registration? A dump truck would be kind of useful.
 

Spud_Monkey

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Would it make sense to buy a heavy truck used, or are you buying a headache? And if you're a homeowner or small farmer, do you need a CDL and commercial registration? A dump truck would be kind of useful.
If you are over 26k lbs GCWR/GVWR, have air brakes, carrying over 15 passengers or over 100 gallons of any liquid you need some form of CDL. I don't own a farm I am a homeowner and can attest owning a semi was best thing to do, it's not can I move it it's when do I want to move it and do I have the trailer to move it. I don't drive it everywhere I own a car for that, that can hold adequate usual stuff. Register it under farm use and you can haul up to 54k lbs or 55k lbs and you can register it lower if you want if you don't haul that much. Insurance is $90 a month plus the car is $33, registration is $180 a year for 54k/55k GVWR and you can register it for only the months you need it. Longevity if you can turn wrenches it's not a headache and will last damn near lifetime, fuel cost me about 50 cents a mile or less tires last forever and so do brakes.
Bought mine over year ago cost me $5250 around there and will outlast most pickup trucks around same price range, lastly I hate automatics and you can't find a pickup truck new with stick shift anymore. Yes will be same for semi's but that is far far down the road.
 

Truck Shop

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I am in the process of rebuilding a 16 year old W900L. Is NOT for the faint of heart or weak of skills. Is and shall remain EXPENSIVE but I see as worth every penny.

I'll agree with you there. It separates the welder fabricators from the welder fabricators and mechanics from mechanics. People come into the shop
{who built this-who owns this} I reply {I only met him once and once was enough-he's a real a$$hole for sure.:p

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Pops52

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I'll agree with you there. It separates the welder fabricators from the welder fabricators and mechanics from mechanics. People come into the shop
{who built this-who owns this} I reply {I only met him once and once was enough-he's a real a$$hole for sure.:p

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Tell me it has an NHRS 320 under the hood!!
 

Crummy

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Carpenters I've known are the worst. Going to the dump? Cube it out! Shingles, sheet rock, concrete- 1/2, 3/4, 1 ton don't matter. Picking up materials same thing- gimme a unit/pallet! It's a work truck! Trailers too.
Guy that's working for me said his 1/2ton truck is "down on power". Dude, you are carrying around 8,000lbs of every tool you own and junk in it- the truck is begging for mercy.
[edit] Cretards with 400thousand 2'x8'x1-1/8" form-ply on a car trailer. Don't forget the motorcycle tie-downs to keep them from falling off!
 
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Pops52

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fuel fed in both ends,
TS, Years ago, late 70s I started wondering why Cummins (on the 855s) only ran the fuel line to the front or back and always wanted to plumb my BC350 to both ends. It seemed logical for pressure and fuel temp to be as consistent as possible. My question here is, If that is all one did, would it be noticeable to an observant driver/mechanic??
Dave
 

suladas

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I bet the mental midgets had the dump trailer hooked to a ball on the rear bumper and not the receiver hitch. If the trailer was hooked to the receiver it shouldn't have buckled the bed like that or there's something else going on the pic doesn't show.

Has to be. I would bet you'd need 6k+ of weight on the back of that truck to bend the frame, likely just crumpled the box.
 

Truck Shop

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TS, Years ago, late 70s I started wondering why Cummins (on the 855s) only ran the fuel line to the front or back and always wanted to plumb my BC350 to both ends. It seemed logical for pressure and fuel temp to be as consistent as possible. My question here is, If that is all one did, would it be noticeable to an observant driver/mechanic??
Dave

Yes, probably the most noticeable is throttle performance.
 

Truck Shop

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Over half? I'll gladly take 20 of those trucks at that cost! You can buy a nice pickup for $55k being really generous, where can I buy that truck for say $100k? It's over $200k anywhere here.

As usual I posted that in jest, But-I wasn't referring to canada I was referring to US. Average diesel pickup sold around here 80 grand and up
no basic cheap crap. Price on new W900 2021 model and going off the seven we just bought $161,000. As matter of fact here's one of them
below.

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crane operator

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Average diesel pickup sold around here 80 grand and up
no basic cheap crap

I just pulled up my local ford dealer website. They had a 2021 f-250 diesel listed for $89,995. Its not even brand new, it had 3,300 miles on it. A new 2021 gasser was a tick under $70,000.

Stepping up to a f-350, my options were a 2017 or a 2019, each under 35,000miles. $73,000 or $68,000.

I'm hoping my 7.3's last me a while.
 

repowerguy

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I just pulled up my local ford dealer website. They had a 2021 f-250 diesel listed for $89,995. Its not even brand new, it had 3,300 miles on it. A new 2021 gasser was a tick under $70,000.

Stepping up to a f-350, my options were a 2017 or a 2019, each under 35,000miles. $73,000 or $68,000.

I'm hoping my 7.3's last me a while.

In mid February I bought a new Ram 2500 Tradesman 6.4 Hemi 4x4 that has pretty much all the interior and exterior options, sorta plain Jane model all dressed up for the big dance. I got it for about $47,000, this was about 2-3 weeks before the chip crises became public panic. The dealer had close to 20 to chose from then and a month later they had all been sold. All of the new car dealers in the tri-state look like used car dealers now, I see shined up 2015 models on the front sales row where 4 months ago were all new vehicles.
 
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