I've experienced that before, I had a bed full of screenings last year and I couldn't go faster than 35 mph or the truck would start drifting......

 

 

thats called bump steer... you can steer till you hit a bump and the tires leave the ground.

 

I learned a bit about loading a SuperCrew that day. There's only about a hundred pounds more than the first picture, but 2/3s of the weight is behind the wheel wells. The boxes are about 7 1/2 feet long, and 5 feet of that is from the center of the wheel well to the back of the truck, which as you can see makes a big difference in the way it rides.

 

If those bricks weigh only 5 pounds a peice and thats if they only weigh that much which i highly doubt, I calculated that ONLY the bricks weigh 1875 LBS! So you probly have more than 1900 punds back there.

 

What kind of crazy math are you using where 100 bricks that weigh 5lbs each weigh 1875lbs?

100 x 5 = 500

 

Simple volume dude! 5 bricks by 5 bricks is 25, then there are about 15 columns of 25 which is a total of 375 bricks, 375 multiplied by 5 is 1875 Lbs! Where did you learn math?

 

There are 5 bricks by 5 bricks, and 4 columns of them. The face of each brick looks like four bricks.

 

Once I seen a F-350 come in to lowes (I worked at lowes at that time) and he put three full skids of similar paito block in the bed and two more on a trailer.

We where able to fork lift two full skids into the bed then hand load the third, then he hooked back to the trailer and loaded the last two on it, if I am not mistaken each skid was around 2,500lbs.

The truck hardly squatted, I think it had lots of goodies on it though. Didn't even grunt pulling out.

The only other truck I seen come close was a 2500 HD chevy, was bumper dragging with three skids on a 20 foot trailer.

P.S

I loaded a jeep down so much one time that it broke a spring, I asked the lady if she was sure, and i told her it was a bad idea.

She loaded 45, 40lbs bags (1,800lbs total) of decorative rock into the back of it, that would be a load even for my F-150. its load cap is 1,750 lbs.

 

Why don't you guys use the truck and put some weight in it...

Here is a pic of my truck with right around 6000lbs in the bed, roughly 2.3 cuyds of sand and dirt fill from when I put the egress window in my basement last fall. I only had about 40 psi of air in the air bags and had they tires up to the max of 50psi.


Here is another with around 2500 lbs (1500lbs of tongue weight from the trailer and 1000lbs of patio blocks in the bed). And the other pic is the same weight only with 65 psi in the air bags

 

You sure @ 6000? I thought a yard of straight sand weighs 2600... unless it was wet...... Then you might have been more than 6000

In any case, those air bags certainly look like they make a difference, when I hauled the screenings last year (a little more than 1-1/2 yds @ about approx 4000 lbs) It was squatted about as bad as I've ever seen a truck going down the road. Won't be repeating that until I get bags.

 

Where are you only counting 4 columns? there are over 15!

 

Too bad I didn't snap a pick from last spring when I had 8 full kegs and like 15+ 30 racks in the back. The truck was sagging from the sheer weight of beer...a beautiful sight!

No idea how much this weighed but it was moist sod and we had the bed full. Hit the bump stops multiple times on the trip. Luckily it was only about 5-6 miles. :o obviously back when the truck was stock, but my 4x4 looked like a lowered 4x2.

 

16 to be exact, but these are patio block, not pavers.

Your typical patio block looks like this:



These are a bit different than that picture, and I can't seem to find a picture,
but they appear to be this size with a pattern of four bricks to a block.

 

I had loaded down 72 8"x8"x16" cinder blocks on a pallet. I estimated the weight to be just shy of 2200lbs. She squated down pretty good (I have 2 wheel drive so you can gauge fender gap) but over all handled it well. I don't know if I feel cozy making many trips like that but it did well.