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Terrible Towing pics thread

Brutal_HO said:
I hauled a few of those with my 04 2500 (bags @100psi).
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Reminds me of the time my buddies 6.7 DRW blew a PS hose and I needed to get his camper the last 30 miles of dirt to the campsite. Bags and tires went as high as my pressure switch would go, which ended up being about 95 psi. I swapped the psi switch out, but never needed that much air again. Truck felt it, but really not bad. I suspect a RAW of around 9K lbs. It was definitely a bit heavier than the time I put 2 1 ton pallets of pellets in the bed.


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Our ACE Hardware stores sell only the wood pellet tall stacks of 60 bags. Kind of glad that I can't load up our 2024 3500 4x4 with two 50's, but it still would be under the payload capacity. Two 60's, nope.
Our 2016 PW is over the 1,446 lb payload capacity with 60 bags, but it's hauled it multiple times. 20250103_124959.jpg
 
Bull Creek said:
Our ACE Hardware stores sell only the wood pellet tall stacks of 60 bags. Kind of glad that I can't load up our 3500 4x4 with two 50's, but it still would be under the payload capacity. Two 60's, nope.
Our 2016 PW is over the 1,446 lb payload capacity with 60 bags, but it's hauled it multiple times. View attachment 82299
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Interesting, never seen a 60 bag stack.
 
Fred is the owner of the ACE Hardware in our largest nearby town of Collbran, Colorado having a declining population of 364 some 15 miles from our home. Glad that he is an expert with the fork lift due to there was a broken plank board underneath hanging up getting that tall stack into our 2024 Ram 3500. I was getting worried about the forklift pressing up against the tailgate.

The poverty rate of Collbran, Colorado is 42%. Business nearly ceases during the long winter season for the ACE. The ACE tractor trailer rig truck burned up the brakes coming down our 8% steep grade last June near the front of our home. Appreciate the humor, but then Fred is that one guy not to fool with.VideoCapture_20250206-204606.jpgVideoCapture_20250205-161657.jpg
 
McHenry2500 said:
Serious question: the cost of an eco-diesel is almost the same as a base model 2500. So what's the draw for these things? I see tons of them on the roads but just don't understand who pays that much for a diesel half ton?
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Im guessing its the people who don’t need a truck for truck things often. Its no different than people using a truck as a minivan and never using it for truck things when minivans are 1/2 the cost of a truck
 
McHenry2500 said:
Serious question: the cost of an eco-diesel is almost the same as a base model 2500. So what's the draw for these things? I see tons of them on the roads but just don't understand who pays that much for a diesel half ton?
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Well, my story....I had a 2014 Tradesman 2500 (6.4 / 6-speed) prior to the EcoDiesel. It was somewhat pathetic at towing anything with that transmission and got chitty mpgs. Seemed like if the motor wasn't either lugging or screaming, it wasn't pulling. I'm sure the CTD would have been a different animal, or even the 8-speed in the newer 6.4's but that's not what I had. I bought my Eco in 2018 and the 2500 still had the 6-speed plus I had no real reason to own an HD at the time. The Eco was going to be used as my DD towing a boat, jet skis, a load of bark here and there and occasionally pulling my dump trailer. It has most every option I wanted, gets close to 28mpgs and rides like a Cadillac. In 2018 I paid $47k OTD and really the only other option for me (because I wanted all the old man amenities (Laramie level 2 stuff) would be a CTD which I couldn't afford at the trim level I wanted. Plus again, I didn't really have a need for an HD. For the most part, it tows better than my 2500 ever did at least up to about 7k. I got my 3500 for a future (bigger) RV. I can't afford both it and the RV at the same time so I'm spreading them out. I kept the Eco and still use it for my DD and towing most all of my other trailers. It's just a 1500 that's not much different than the millions of hemi 1500's on the road except maybe better mpgs and better light towing characteristics. Just my 2 cents. Probably only worth half that.
 
I don't regret any of the trucks I've owned. Even had a Dakota once that was great at getting into places for hunting/fishing that my HDs wouldn't fit into, although the jeeps were better, but then I had a bigger bed on the Dakota that was useful, too.
 
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