damn, thats a lot of weight. i only have 4 60 lb bags of sand in my bed and im doing fine.

 

I've got 10 of the 80lb bags, lol

 

No problems here (Grin)- of course I am in LA----ooo it's chilly, almost 68 degress!

 

I use 4x4 all the time when there's snow on the ground. I like to be able to get going from a dead stop in a hurry most of the time, not wait 5 minutes to get up to speed because a tire is spinning. I can get around just fine in 4x2 if I wanted but choose not to.

It's also quite fin to slide the back end out in a turn. Nothing like drifting a 6000lb 4x4 Brick.

4x2 is generalyl fine in the snow if you have a decent set of tires and know how to drive it in the snow. It's the idiots who can't drive to begin with that seem to have the most problems.

Also, 4x4 just gets you stuck deeper in the ditch if you go too fast. 4x4 means you do have better traction starting out. Once at speed it doesn't make much of a difference. The people who think 4x4 means they can go as fast as they want in snow are the ones who end up in ditches. Just because you can go better and maybe even hold traction in deeper snow doesn't mean you stop any better.

 

My truck is dangerous, has spooked me a couple times at slow speeds even. 33x12.5 Toyo M/Ts not good in slush or snow. Too wide. Like a ski.

 

7 months of snow and ice a year. i love this truck. rarely and i mean rarely use 4x4. usually the only time i do is when im at my friends and have to turn around in the ditch/field at a really slow speed.

if you need to use 4x4 on town streets get better tires. i laugh at the guys with stock 20's and stock tires spinning in 2wd and still sliding in 4x4. deny that the tires are the problem. there the only thing touching the ground!

 

Plowed thru a 3 foot snow drift the other morning on my way to get the snow plow. I turned off the highway to the township shed and there was a big drift, tried 2wd but I stopped fast and thought better of it, backed back out on the highway and put it in 4 and went right thru it.

 

what is the biggest snow drift anyone has made it through?

 

over the hood the first year i had my f150.

2wd on the highway after a 6 hour storm and winds around 30mph.

seen it coming and just kept my speed up and plowed right through. but it was fresh and not rock hard.

 

About 4 winters ago we had a major snow, all fluff, not the wet heavy stuff. Roads were drifted over from the shoulder to about 1/2 land width for a good 2 mile stretch. This was a country road, no oncoming traffic to be considered about and good visual for 1 mile plus up the road (flat). It was as much fun as I've ever had driving plowing through the drifts, snow billowing up into the fenders, up on the hood, over the windshield. I had more fun on that two mile stretch than I did all winter long on the sleds. Drifts ranged from 3'-4' high.

 

About 5 feet. Wait, nevermind...we don't get snow in Florida.

 

Doing good here....I am going with a set of Duratrac's next go round. The width of my Toyo Mt's just make them ice skates on any packed or plowed snow. Stopping is not bad but its not great either.