OK here goes,

I went to home depot today because I needed a skid of red bricks. The guy with the forklift asked me what type of vehicle I have so I told him an 05 F150 Lariat 4x4 Supercrew. He was very unsure if the weight of the skid would damage anything. So I looked in my book and was a little confused with the wording so I looked on the doorplate and looked by the max gross axle weight area and it said 3850 lbs. So I was like great it should be a problem since the forklift driver said that on the forklift a guage said the skid weighes in at 3600 lbs. So I said ok lets go for it and throw it in.
Well we started putting the skid in and man the back REALLY dropped down and was literally about 2 inches from the tires and there was still a little weight left that the forklift was supporting.
Being this is my first F150 I would like some advise and some information being I'm not totally sure on the numbers and since most of you are repeating F150 owners and test out what these trucks can handle I would like to know if I should have just went for it and told them to drop it in or was it a good call to take it out and remove a few layers. I split the load and had a friend pick up the rest with his mid 80's F150 with beefier springs in the back.

So what's verdict? good call bad call? Is tire pressure an issue? Thank you for any and all information you all can give me.

05 Lariat 4x4 Supercrew
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Well, according the the sticker on the door jam on my 2005 Screw XLT, I have a max payload of 1491lbs. So I would say you would have been over twice the rated payload of your truck. The payload would include the weight in your bed as well as any weight in your truck(including you). If you plan on carrying max load or more you would also need to have your tires inflated to the max pressure stated on the sidewall of the tires. I wouldn't carry that kind of weight in that truck, if you do you gotta realize you are overloading the truck.

 

These are 1/2 ton trucks. Meaning the payload is about 1/2 ton or 1000 lbs depending on weight of vehicle, accessories, etc. I have a F250 that I wouldn't try to put over 3000 lbs in. In my state to haul 3600 lbs you would need a tandam axle trailer with brakes. That's alot of weight. Good choice in splitting the load.

 

1/2 tons are still called 1/2 tons as they used to carry about a 1/2 ton (old F100's), those were the true 1/2 tons. Newer F-150's carry closer to 3/4 ton but they kept the old classification's for convenience reasons. The numbers to the right of the F (-1500) designate the rough weight class more accurately than quarter-ton weight classes do. So I agree, good choice in splitting the load. I wouldn't even have done that with a dually.

 

Stang6767,
I built a deck last month and found out the same thing... same time... at Menards... ready to load. I was getting 80# bags of cement. I was floored at the stupid 1400# payload. I would have figured closer to 2000#. Wrong. Guess I was just too used to my 2004 F-250. Then, I could just throw it in regardless. Whatever I did rarely reached it's payload. Now I need to pay attention, or take the trailer and convert the payload to trailer and tongue weight.

 

Yeah, the screw is only good for 1500lbs :-(

Scabs and regular cabs have slightly to quite a bit higher limit simply because the weight distribution can be centered and shifted more towards the front 2 wheels and not to mention they are slightly lighter trucks as well.

I was way surprised and disappointed that I could only haul 1/2yd of baserock at 2600lbs per yard at a time in my screw. It barely fills up the box!

 

Remember "Gross Axle Weight" includes the weight of the truck on that axle.
You need to check max payload. 1491lbs.

 

I've had one ton in the back of my 01 supercrew. It did drop it down alot. But drove like nothing was even back there.

 

G'day from Canada.
I recently made a trip to the local landfill with most of my bathroom renovation waste which included a pile of plaster rubble and some concrete.They weighed the load at 930Kilos or 2046lbs. It squatted a bit but rode smooth, and wasn't lacking for power.
'05 FX4 SCREW WITH BFG ALL TERRAIN T/A'S LT 285/65R18.
By the way when I got there it was pouring rain and I had to back down into axle-deep dump soup and then up an incline.Thought about it twice but went ahead anyway.I bet I could have pulled a Chevy along with me.The tires didn't even spin.