^^^^^ Dont they drop something similar to that from like 40 ft above in the Ford commercial anyways? Shouldn't be a problem.

 

If they are in paterns of 4, then how can i count 5 bricks accross the front then? shouldnt be in multiples of 4? They are not patio blocks

 

I wish I had the kind of time you do to figure out that someone's math MIGHT be wrong.....my god let it go.

 

Sand is 2600 lbs/cuyd. 2600X 2.3yds is 5980 lbs. 2.3yds is a rough number, after figuring the total cu.ft. of the the bed with the tailgate down. Also our Bobcat has a .75 yd bucket, there was 2 heaping buckets plus about 1/2 of a 3rd. Granted there was some black dirt mixed in (black dirt weighs roughly 3200-3300lbs) but I just figured it as straight sand.

In any case it was ALOT of weight for a 1/2 ton, heck that would have been alot of weight for a 1 ton.

 

Dude im 18 and in calculus! When i see math that done wrong, its just pure reflex to fix it! Damn i was just trying to calculate the weight in the back of the truck!

 

@mSaLL150: That's true, I shouldn't worry! Lol. So much for truth in advertising!

 

I believe 1900lbs.. I had 1700 pounds of topsoil in my truck. Hell my door jamb shows a max payload of 1838lbs.. Needless to say the truck was squatting pretty good. The V6 moved well even with all the weight. I think the man tran helps that out a bit.

 

It's not the math that is in question, read the OP. It's a word problem

How do you get to the total of 100 patio block? The picture shows 5 columns piled 5 high, how many rows are there?
5 * 5 * X = 100
25X = 100
X = 100/25
X = 4

 

Don't post this in the towing section. There are people there that will go ape of you putting more then 1000lbs in the bed.

 

He estimated 100 blocks! If you count them yourself you will see that there are more than 4 columns, there are over 15! I know how many bricks there are, im trying to show how much weight is in the back of the truck! 5x5x15= 375 bricks!

 

Read my lips.....there are 100 patio block in the box. There are 20 to a layer and 5 layers high. The dimensions of the patio block are 16x8x2. Each patio block has lines on the top of them to make it appear that they are smaller pieces but they are not.

 

It's time I settled what 1900 lbs in a box looks like. I will get my last 6 girl friends together and put them in the box together. Ii will use 100lbs of donuts as bait to get them to jump in. The total will be 1900 lbs. Then we shall see how much the box sags !

 

So, you're saying there are alot of whales in Alberta Beach?

 

Wow, I didn't realize I should have taken pictures of my loading/towing adventures. Here are two of my personal experiences that "Built Ford Tough" is truth in advertising:

1. I borrowed a friend's trailer (I thin it was 19x7 or 19x8) and picked up a load of compost. I had the truck bed filled. The guy with the front loader put more in than I was planning on--he filled it to the top of the roof (in the middle--tapered to the top of the bed on the sides). Then he filled the trailer with a good 4' pile. I paid by weight for about 7200 lbs total. The front was a little light in steering, but not scary. Based on that, I think PHS79's weight guesses were way off. First off, you would be hard-pressed to get 62 cubic feet (2.3 cu yds) in the bed--you'd need a pile that was one foot higher than the bed all around. Second, tough as it may be, there's no way 6,000 lbs wouldn't totally compress the suspension. I've seen what less than half that weight would do.

2. On another occasion when loading rocks into the bed by the shovelful, we just eyeballed it until it looked like the suspension was starting to squat a bit. It didn't look as compressed as when I'd hauled gravel or the compost above. When we got to the yard and weighed in and out (paid by weight), the total was 2,300 pounds.

Based on that experience, I found that Ford is very conservative with their ratings. My SuperCrew is rated to handle 1,900+ in the bed, but I'd say it could handle up to 2,500 without weighing down the suspension too much or floating the front end. My suspension/wheels are stock.

 

Why do you think he estimated when he stated that there are 100?