Back in the mid 1990's I ended up with 3100 lbs of gravel in the bed of a 1986 Chevy S-10 Longbed.
Blew all the fluid out of the rear shocks. Only had to go like 9 miles on backroads. Even at 25 mph the truck wandered bad as tire sidewalls were flexing and not much weight on front end. Had hauled several loads already and the little truck had done quite well at 1800 to 2200 lbs loads. This load did not look much bigger but it sure was and I did not like it at all.
That incident was the last time, that I let the gravel pit load my pick-ups with a bucket pay loader and that was over 20 years ago. Now I line my pick up bed with 5 gallon buckets. I hand load the 5 gallon buckets myself which also saves the gravel pits minimum charge that they now place on you if they load your truck with their bucket loader. My $9 worth of gravel would cost me $30 minimum charge if they loaded it. Course a big dump truck is no problem as you can easily get more than $30 worth of gravel on them so minimum charge goes away.
I usually end up with 1400-1600 lbs on a full size truck load now and can easily place/spread the gravel where I want it when I get back home. Those 5 gallon buckets work very well. Enjoy the physical workout too. Best of all is there is very little chance that I will overload my truck this way.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 18:32:39 12/14/13 3 times.
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