Do it man. Give her a try.

 

"and please please you tube the attempt."
Yes!! Please do!!

"I don't think the dodges hold the weight as well as fords though."

i know all of us have heard of stories of "super trucks" my neighbor, who now drives a dodge/cummins, used to have a 95 3/4 ton powerstroke 5spd 2wd, affectionately known as "ole tan". he and another friend of mine went down to the Rose City Sand Pit in vidor tx, and filled the back of his truck with sand even with the roof of the cab, and his 19foot lowboy as high as they could pile it. the rubber bumpstops were not only touching the stops on the axle tubes, but were completely compressed. his buddy was following him in his 05 dodge cummins. when they left the sand pit, you got about a 1 1/2 to 2 mile stretch before you hit the neches river bridge going back into beaumont, and its a pretty steep bridge, soooooo with the combination of sand gettin blown all over the road from the trailer, and that powerstroke blowin black smoke all over everyone they finally got over the bridge doin something like 25 or 30mph. they eventually had to pull over cause he dang near went off the bridge fishtailling all over the road with no weight on the front end. they said it took them about 2 1/2 hours to shovel enought sand off the truck and trailer to make it "safe". we all know it was dangerous, but hearing the story, my stomach felt like i did 500 crunches non stop from all the laughing. the whole kicker was that it was only like 35 or 40 dollars for a trailer and truck load so my bud was like "dang son!!! filler up to the roof of the truck!!" the rubber bumpstops had to be replaced cause they broke off. that stroke eventually on flat ground got up to 65-70 and pulled it fine, however the stopping part was a little tricky he said when he got home, he pulled another "heres your sign" and got out and noticed that the rear tires on the truck and the ones on the trailer were smoking, and had some melted rubber on the wheel wells, so he put his hand on the tires, and you could guess what happened. sorry for being long, but had to tell.

 

Supposedly the Dodge Commercial dealers that sell the commercial 3500, 4500 , and 5500 wil have loaners to supply while your truck is in the shop . I haven't figured that out yet since they sell the trucks as cab/chassis before different bodies are upfitted .

http://www.sternbergs.com/chrysler/business_link.html

 

I have hauled 5000lbs casing hammers in the back of one ton flat pickups many times. There is no problem as long as its far enough forward to get weight on the front tires the problem with a bobcat all that weight is on less than 4 square feet through the tires so unless you had a stout flat bed you would go through

 

RickG: That would be cool if they did do that but i dont really understand how it would work either. Also i would be interested to see if the 3500 dodge cab/chassis have heavier springs and axles under them. My ford had a different axle under it that is wider than a regular dually rear end. I had to buy a special bed for it because of the width. I didn't think i would get that much feedback on my comment. I was comparing my ford to my present truck in my sig. Tim

 

here ya go bobcat into a truckbed with no ramps..very impresive driving skillz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJ3_...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJ3_...eature=related

 

That was some awsome driving skills !!!!

 

if you had a flatbed and about 2' more wheelbase it'd be fine. must be a dinky little Bobcat. I'd be more worried about crushing the bed floor than anything.

get one of those big Cat skid steers with tracks and drive it right onto the bedrails