Working Your Truck

[68 Ford Stepside]

I picked up 2,025 lbs. of topsoil in the old flareside this morning for one of the wife's flower beds. The old Ford pulled really strong on all of the hills in high gear. She did herself proud.

[sargentrs]

Good girl! Our trucks love to work.

[djjsc]

My first truck was a '67 Mercury 100 (same as Ford, avail in Canada). Later a '72 F100 and sold the M100 to Dad as a second farm truck. It earned it's keep; fuel, tools, parts, bales, you name it; it hauled it w/ precious little attention in return. The most memorable load was 80 bags of fertilizer one spring @ 50lbs apiece; that's 4,000 lbs people!! "Birdbath" (story there) never complained. I'm pretty sure the 'Built Ford Tough' slogan was based on the '67 - '72s.

[TexasTruck72]

Not that I doubt your post, but surely that load in your pictures didn't weigh 2,025 lbs? I believe a bump can tote that much weight for sure, but its hard for me to believe that is over 1 ton without the bed being filed to the brim.

[68 Ford Stepside]

I didn't weigh the soil myself. The landscaping company told me what it weighed with its tested moisture content. He also said a cubic yard of soil can weigh up to 2700 lbs. soaking wet. I am not in the soil business, so I don't really know. I don't mind you doubting my claim one bit. Have a great Ford day!

[SevNT2Bump]

A yard of dirt or sand with water content does weigh a little over a ton. I'm a Masonry Contractor and haul this stuff all the time. These trucks hold tough!

[sargentrs]

Don't know how much it weighed but I hauled two loads of sand 40 miles one way through the mountains. Long bed F100, filled to the top of the rails. Pucker factor was way up there.

[Whateverman]

according to the scale at the dump i've had around 2400lbs in my ol' pig before,sure rode nice with that load of rotten lumber in the back

[68 Ford Stepside]

Not that I doubt your post, but surely that load in your pictures didn't weigh 2,025 lbs? I believe a bump can tote that much weight for sure, but its hard for me to believe that is over 1 ton without the bed being filed to the brim.

Hello Jack: You got me to thinking about weight as I don't want to damage my suspension by overloading. I did some research & here is what I found. The density of ideal topsoil is 1.25 grams per cubic centimeter or about 78 pounds per cubic foot. My truck bed measures 58.88 cubic feet. If I filled the bed to the brim the load would be 4,592.64 pounds. I don't think the landscaper was too far off in his assessment. Have A Great Ford Day!

[Superjunk]

I delivered a load of crushed stone last week and the loader operator said I had about 4 to 4500#s

[GSequoia]

Top soil is pretty heavy. Hauled some in my '71 250 a few years back.


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That 390 didn't notice it and the good power disc brakes ate it up too.

[hazelnut]

Sifted topsoil is one of the lighter soils and agree with stepsides weight, Even lighter if its fresh sifted and fluffy. Dry sand is about the same. Crushed stone is about 1.5 ton per cubic yard along with red clay and blue mud.

[GSequoia]

While sifted the stuff I got was pretty moist.

[FLATBEDFORD]

Two yards topsoil

About a cord of green Black Locust after hurricane sandy. This is the first of 3 loads that day.