Deuce workout

[rlwm211]

I used my deuce this fall to haul a load of "gravel" to fill in the potholes in my drive way.

I think it is cheating to use an excavator to unload by the way.

I got a full 4+ yard scoop. This stuff is screened bank gravel with some sand and rubble mixed in and it was very wet. I would guess almost 4000 per yard. I knew I had a load but the truck handled it easily. Drop sides were a blessing and I unloaded without getting up on the truck until the last little bit.

Thanks for the great pictures and the great story, love the pictures and especially your assistant.

RL

 

[AceHigh]

About the only work my truck has done was haul dirt.

Wife wanted a bag of potting soil from Lowe's.

 

[wb1895]

About the only work my truck has done was haul dirt.

Wife wanted a bag of potting soil from Lowe's.

 

[greenjeepster]

I think it is cheating to use an excavator to unload by the way.

Hey.... I still had to get up there and sweep the bed out when I was done The excavator was 150.00 well spent. I am about 20 years too young for my first joint replacement.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

About the only work my truck has done was haul dirt.

Wife wanted a bag of potting soil from Lowe's.

Be thankful that she didn't send you to fetch a Dirt-Bag from Lowe's - or anywhere else

(I just couldn't resist that one.)

 

[roscoe]

Nice work. I really like my dropside too. It sure makes unloading everything easier - trees in particular. How did you manage the electrical on the trailer?

 

[Barrman]

Check your dog bones in a week or so.

I used my Gasser and M105 to pick up 18K of gravel back during the holidays. Did fine while loaded driving 30 miles home. A week later, one of the dog bone ends let go.

Makes you feel like you accomplished something when the M35 and M105 are both sqauting.

 

[emr]

I did get a kick out of the EXCAVATOR ......She sure was a monster, u must have turned up the fuel to get that baby home..........sorry that was funny.....

 

[greenjeepster]

EMR: She looks small but weighs almost 9000 lbs. It was enough weight that when I pulled her up onto the ramps it squatted the rear of the trailer to the ground and lifted up on the rear of the truck. I was originally planning on grabbing the first load of stone on the way home with the excavator, but changed my mind and dropped it at the house first.

 

[swampzr2]

So a deuce can handle 20,000# in the bed? I thought they were rated at 2.5 tons off road, 5 tons on road?

I didn't think you could push it that much, but maybe.

Decues are tougher than woodpecker lips.

When I scaled in at the rock quarry I weighed 12,50.....when I left I was grosseing 32000 with a load of crusher run.
The old deuce trotted right along......had a steep twistey road to the top of the mountain.
Dropped her in low range, found a gear she will pull in and just loafed along.

 

[ODdave]

So a deuce can handle 20,000# in the bed? I thought they were rated at 2.5 tons off road, 5 tons on road?

I didn't think you could push it that much, but maybe.

ever seen a used half ton truck that never had more than 1000lb in the bed???? lol

 

[waayfast]

Yep, always check the dog bone ends after really working(severely overloading) the deuce.

I learned that lesson the easy way(seems to be a first for me)---I went about 60 miles away to check out an abandoned truck I had spotted earlier. It was far enough off the highway that I couldn't tell what it was for sure-didn't look quite right---.

Found the owner and we went out to see it up close.Now it made sense.Really nice deuce gasser.Some of the nicest sheet metal I've seen (other than mine of course)no rust no dents,good glass etc.What had stumped me as to what it was---was the giant 5ton dump box that had been installed on it.He said it all worked and ran fine right up to when he parked it due to a dog bone failure.He told me the truck was loaded before you ever put material in the box--with a load in the box it would't hardly move.And of course that explains why it's still parked.
Jim

 

[Maverick1701]

that is the first time I have ever seen a deuce 'squat' when hauling a load...very cool pics

 

[mckeeranger]

I got ours to squat about 3-4 inches yesterday. I was pulling a house trailer for a friend's grandfather.

He had torn off everything behind the axles, so there was no counter-balance and all the weight was on the tongue. He cut away part of the hitch so it would fit onto the pintle. The biggest problem was getting it high enough to fit over it.

The truck pulled the trailer's tires out of 16 inch deep ruts like it was nothing. It then pulled it about 100 yards across his farm to it's new location, where he's going to turn it into a big tool shed.

I was going to use the 5-ton, but would have to drive across a bridge that was damaged by last years flood. We decided the 23,000# truck would be to heavy.

 

[Seth_O]

that is the first time I have ever seen a deuce 'squat' when hauling a load...very cool pics

I have aspirations to one day make my bobbed deuce squat under a load. The closest I've come so far was hauling a load of scrap steel, 3000 lbs and no significant squatting.

Sigh, some day. And to the OP, well done

 

[Oros35]

I got mine to squat... Or I would guess since the front wheels were off the ground! Just hook it to a weight transfer sled and try to drive 300'!

 

[joshuaz223]

hows this for squat.

 

[swampzr2]

What is in the bed? How much estimated weight?

hows this for squat.

 

[swampzr2]

What is the difference in hauling capacity form a deuce and a bobbed deuce (with front springs)?

hows this for squat.

 

[greenjeepster]

What is the difference in hauling capacity form a deuce and a bobbed deuce (with front springs)?

Depends on what the springs came off of... I have a set off of a concrete mixer rated for 40k lbs. On a bob deuce you would blow the tires before you even began to squat the springs.