I Was Once Known As 'El Extremo' - My Not-So-New Motorcycle Saga:

Yup, Mitch. You, Voxy, Me, SG John, and I am sure a number of others have fed ourselves and family via a back view like that.

In my ideal truck world, I would have a 12 foot Flatbed type truck with a dump feature. Stake body type sides, and a stout and reliable diesel powerplant and bullet proof transmission.

I really have no clue how anyone who even considers any type of work can go for one of these trucks with mini bar fridge sized beds. And this comes from a guy who has driven a 1983 Honda Civic Wagon as his work vehicle. HAHA
 
Robert Herndon said:
I've never been in a situation where I would be required to do that. I have never scratched or dented one of my vehicles in 38 years. If I buy a refrigerator or sofa, I have it delivered and setup. Poor Truck!!!!
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Lucky for you to be able to do that, I have dented, over loaded, pulled / pushed people, moved people, and I carry damm near everything to build a shopping center, tool wise in the back of my truck, and would not know how to make a living without one.
And yes I love my truck :beers:
 
HAHA Mitch,

I wonder if I have it somewhere. I suspect I do, too. BUT on one trip to the gravel yard for 57's, I got the Cat loader guy to dump into my F250 4x4. I looked back, then looked at his bucket and waved for him to empty the rest of his bucket in the truck. I got to the scale to pay and they charged me for my money's worth. Ya see, that load plus my 200 Lbs at the time, put me at 2.5 tons on my 3/4 ton pickup.

On other type loads, I have hauled full cubes of "heavyweight" 12x8x16 concrete blocks, full pallets of 80 lb concrete, and I know both these loads is in the neighborhood of 3400 lbs. This old gal would pull it fine, but where I would usually feel it would be when pulling a gooseneck trailer with a Skid Steer, Mini Excavator, or simply a huge pile of heavy lumber like 26 foot long floor joists. We have some pretty good hills here Back East in southern PA, northern Md.
 
Well, Gents...at 55, i now own my first truck...and my first vehicle ever owned with an automatic transmission.

2001 Ford F250 Super Duty. It's an ex LADWP truck retired in November of 2019 with 54,000 miles.

5.4 litre V8, 2X4, 3.73:1 axle, 4R100 automatic overdrive. With a .071 overdrive ratio, thats 3.05:1 FDR in OD.

That's a whopping 2.64 FDR in overdrive. With the stock 31.7" tires, that's about 2,000 @ 70mph.

The massive Ford 4R100 transmission is the big brother of the Ford E4OD which is a close relative to the Ford C6. Bone stock, it has neck-snapping shifts.

On all Ford automatics, produced since around 1989, the torque converter clutch applies between 3rd and 4th. On this, clutch only applies after 4th gear (OD) and only after 54mph.

Truck has no catalysts near the engine. 3" pipes from both engine banks merge into a single 4" pipe with a single 4" TW catalyst tight at the differential and adjacent to and ahead of the single 4" muffler.

Build sheet reads with strange and magical things like "Special Contract Build LADWP," "Special Ride Height," "Dual Transmission Coolers," "Special Transmission Shift Strategies," "Fuel Cooler," "Severe Duty Cooling System," "Special Engine Management Strategy," "Heavy Rear Bumper With Pintle Hook," and "Extended Range 77 Gallon Fuel Tank."

I have a little damage to repair on the LR side of the bed, just behind the LR tire, but that's it. Everything else is in fantastic shape.

I bought it from a retired LADWP employee in Panorama City, who bought the truck from the city of LA in January of 2020 with the intent to pull a 5th wheel trailer or something. City of Los Angeles was still on the title documents. A full binder of maintenance records from LADWP came with it.

As a Father's Day gift, my wife and parent's paid $5,000 cash for the truck and the seller paid the sales tax. Transfer, smog and new plates, plus a full year of registration was only $230.00. I insured it online and drove home 100% legal.

Today is a full detail with clay bar and machine polish with caruba wax.

All my vehicles get the same treatment...

Poor truck must think.it died and went to heaven... :LOL:

And dig the keychain. Apparently I'm not susupposed to drive it in winds in excess of 46mph. An average gust here - as recorded by nearby Murrillo Observatory and Weather Station - is 70-90mph.

Hmmmm..... :unsure:

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