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Jarred Hodges
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new fords are tough

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a few minutes ago I was convinced that the 04 and up f150s are the toughest trucks on the 1/2 ton market. one came across the scales today bottomed out loaded with brake rotors and irony aluminum and grossed 11800lbs so there was roughly 3 tons in a 1/2 ton pickup and drove like that from tuscaloosa to sumiton, which is 60 miles or so. I have never seen something so awesome and scary at the same time
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I would have called the DOT cops. Criminal negligence on the highway as school is letting out...
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My Dad used to load his old Fords down with soybeans, corn etc. till the springs bowed the other way. Never broke an axle or anything else that I knew about. Good trucks, no doubt about it.
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thats cool, but really dangerous.

That being said, i would love to see his axle bearings and axle tube....
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Really i have to give that title to a 1995 ford RANGER with a 2.3 5speed. i used to work at a scarp yard and there was this crazy old man put a goose neck ball in his 24 ft trailer full of scarp about 2 tons on a trailer. It was kind of funny the scarp yard was located on a steep hill you would see that truck flying down the hill then 10 min later it slowly come up the hill lol
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