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How do you use your truck?
11-16-2005, 01:40 AM
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Originally Posted by drew03
does this look like the half ton resource?
Oh man I dunno why but I find that funny.Occasionaly load in the bed, or towing a trailer with cars/tractors/forklifts/farm implements etc. About once a month or so.
11-16-2005, 06:16 AM
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Even if you occasionaly tow, pulling stuff around with a gasser is just depressing if you have ever towed with a diesel.
I recently sold my "good" reason to have a diesel truck (5,000 lb. tractor), so now my only excuse is our boat.
I wouldn't care if I had nothing to tow, I spend a lot of time at Home Cheapo, si I have to be able to chuck stuff in the bed.
I'm always going to have a truck of some sort, might as well be diesel powered!
I recently sold my "good" reason to have a diesel truck (5,000 lb. tractor), so now my only excuse is our boat.
I wouldn't care if I had nothing to tow, I spend a lot of time at Home Cheapo, si I have to be able to chuck stuff in the bed.
I'm always going to have a truck of some sort, might as well be diesel powered!
11-16-2005, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by drew03
does this look like the half ton resource?
11-16-2005, 07:07 AM
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i bought it because i love big trucks, wanted to add some power and make the 4 ton wonder scream down the 1/4 mile, and i figured id be able to tow and/or haul the quads around...but being 20 i am extremely stupid in my fathers eyes and he does not allow me to tow.
i have towed a car trailer with a malibu once, a 16' trailer with 2 quads on it once, and an 8' trailer twice, once with a street bike, the other time with a set of concrete precast steps. so ive had a trailer on it 4 times in 16 months...not bad. like i said tho pops dont let me tow because i might wreck and someone sue him. apparently i dont know to brake early, check my mirrors when turning, or make sure im clear when switching lanes.
i have towed a car trailer with a malibu once, a 16' trailer with 2 quads on it once, and an 8' trailer twice, once with a street bike, the other time with a set of concrete precast steps. so ive had a trailer on it 4 times in 16 months...not bad. like i said tho pops dont let me tow because i might wreck and someone sue him. apparently i dont know to brake early, check my mirrors when turning, or make sure im clear when switching lanes.
11-16-2005, 07:33 AM
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Got a truck big enough to fit my bike in the back and wanted a diesel so Cummins looked like the way to go. DRW just happened to be the best deal I could find on a manual.
11-16-2005, 08:23 AM
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Thats MR Hoss to you buddy!
You really needed a "daily driver" in the poll, but since you didn't have that I went with joy of driving. I run empty 99.5% of the time. Every once in a while I might pull a light trailer (relatively speaking), but usually I just drive it and enjoy it.
11-16-2005, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Begle1
I've never towed anything on mine...
I got my truck because I wanted a Diesel that wasn't in something giant; my truck was basically just what I wanted. I don't really have much of a use for a truck, although I do use it for hauling around pool cleaning supplies every other day. Nope, mainly I drive mine wherever I need to go and rely on it to drive across country once a month...
I got my truck because I wanted a Diesel that wasn't in something giant; my truck was basically just what I wanted. I don't really have much of a use for a truck, although I do use it for hauling around pool cleaning supplies every other day. Nope, mainly I drive mine wherever I need to go and rely on it to drive across country once a month...
11-16-2005, 09:50 AM
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I use my truck
as my daily commuter, tows trailers once a week on average now, and as u can see thru my gallery photos, as pretty much my locker room and personal library on school related materials. Better yet, my mobile office. I can attest to what i have on it as well, 4wd for deer lease and ranches i visit, and most accessories i have on it serve a purpose, so i love my truck, it does what i need it to, torque, power and mileage are awesome, and most of all its paid for...
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as my daily commuter, tows trailers once a week on average now, and as u can see thru my gallery photos, as pretty much my locker room and personal library on school related materials. Better yet, my mobile office. I can attest to what i have on it as well, 4wd for deer lease and ranches i visit, and most accessories i have on it serve a purpose, so i love my truck, it does what i need it to, torque, power and mileage are awesome, and most of all its paid for...
Tx
11-16-2005, 04:12 PM
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Daily transportation, yard work, home projects, pulling my 5er, and my 20ft. boat on the weekends. I never had a need for a truck until I bought a couple acres of land, then comes the boat, RV, yard work, and then you need a truck.
11-16-2005, 06:07 PM
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I'm one of those "Joy of driving" folks. 
My truck makes me smile every time I drive it.
I do work it occasionally. When you have a 1 ton pickup friends tend to ask you to move heavy stuff. This weekend I went with a buddy to pick up a pallet of cement for his addition. 80# bags x 42 gets the back end squattin' a little, but I still had 3/4" to go before the bumpstops. There will be pics when he emails them to me.
My truck makes me smile every time I drive it.I do work it occasionally. When you have a 1 ton pickup friends tend to ask you to move heavy stuff. This weekend I went with a buddy to pick up a pallet of cement for his addition. 80# bags x 42 gets the back end squattin' a little, but I still had 3/4" to go before the bumpstops.
There will be pics when he emails them to me.
11-16-2005, 06:58 PM
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When I first got out of college in 2000, I moved to the Vail valley in Colorado. In that area you can't walk two steps w/out tripping over a dozen turbo-diesel pickup trucks. One morning I was leaving a quaint little mexican diner in Gypsum (yeah, that's where they make the drywall) and I heard a straight piped Cummins wind up through the gears getting on to I-70. I was absolutely floored with that sound. Just kinda stood there, like this---- 
''Gotta get me one of those'' was all I could think. The rest, as they say...
''Gotta get me one of those'' was all I could think. The rest, as they say...
11-16-2005, 07:16 PM
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Mine works hard and plays rough. It's already sporting 25k miles and has a couple of work related wounds and the bed is all scratched up. It tows the same 5th wheel my previous Cummins Rams towed, runs the same speeds but at a higher rpm and loves gas! I buy it the good stuff! I like 'em both. The grunt of a diesel and the roar of a gasser.
As fer the 1/2 tons... We have literally dozens of construction sites with the building boom in our area from houses to high rises. Gawd I love the city! The hardest working trucks at any construction site are F-150s. Those poor bass droppings get beat, abused, kicked and battered and keep on going. The boss's dually diesel is usually all clean and protected sportin' a new wax job and wheels sitting out by the road profiling. Nothing wrong with that and there are many many dually diesels out earning a living. But the 1/2 tons earn their keep too. The poor red-headed step children of the construction sites that do most of the dirty work.
As fer the 1/2 tons... We have literally dozens of construction sites with the building boom in our area from houses to high rises. Gawd I love the city! The hardest working trucks at any construction site are F-150s. Those poor bass droppings get beat, abused, kicked and battered and keep on going. The boss's dually diesel is usually all clean and protected sportin' a new wax job and wheels sitting out by the road profiling. Nothing wrong with that and there are many many dually diesels out earning a living. But the 1/2 tons earn their keep too. The poor red-headed step children of the construction sites that do most of the dirty work.