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  1. not really lol. Its a daycab with a 230 in wheelbase or so. and a 40ft belly dump. I can manuever that thing in some tiiiiiiight fuckin spots dude. I love running a day cab with a kinda longer wheel base, you can jack knife the trailer so far doing a tight u turn(did this today inside a wellsite that had an open gate) that the trailer tires will actually rotate backwards.

    shit load better spreading gravel with this than a dump truck.

    unloaded its right around 30,000lb. We haul about 25 tons of rock at a time in the belly dump vs a dump trucks 14-15 tons. The tractor is about 17,000lbs and the trailer is 13,000ish lbs.

    Probably my favorite thing to operate at my job, apart from a track hoe.

    you sir are a real tire slayer. I'd charge you for tires lol. Back to Mack. I've driven one of them old one love the exhaust noises right by m my head when shit didn't have dpf and def bullshit.

    lol fuck def and all the emissions shit. all I hear now is the clanky clank of the mack motors. it's like a new 6.7 powerstroke but not as quite. :(

    county gets the cheapest and shittiest tires ever. sets usually dont even last 20k. its ridiculous.

  2. yes it is... the water is what makes it heavy. we get loaded with 12 tons of sand in a dump truck, then we douse the mother fucker with water. my freightliner dump truck I was driving has a 400hp 3406 Catepillar and a 9spd, it hated hauling the wet sand. I've had 18 tons of surge(8 inch chunks of rock, we stack it in ditches to keep the ditch from washing out) which it didn't mind. but it hated having the 12-13 tons of sand when it was watered down.

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  3. not really lol. Its a daycab with a 230 in wheelbase or so. and a 40ft belly dump. I can manuever that thing in some tiiiiiiight fuckin spots dude. I love running a day cab with a kinda longer wheel base, you can jack knife the trailer so far doing a tight u turn(did this today inside a wellsite that had an open gate) that the trailer tires will actually rotate backwards.

    shit load better spreading gravel with this than a dump truck.

    unloaded its right around 30,000lb. We haul about 25 tons of rock at a time in the belly dump vs a dump trucks 14-15 tons. The tractor is about 17,000lbs and the trailer is 13,000ish lbs.

    Probably my favorite thing to operate at my job, apart from a track hoe.

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  4. Are you able to get shorter axle shafts or does that not matter?

    Id think if you cut the lower control arms and hack a inch and a half out and weld them back up with some shorter axle shafts it be golden!

    Right now even with my torsion bars all jacked up the wheels stick out a mile.

    i could just yank them lol. or have a set machined. but idc. I'd rather buy wheels with a different backspacing or whatever if I wanted them to tuck.

    I know the 2wd guys use djm lowers and a drop spindle for the front to bring the wheel in. it's a characteristic of this gen of f150 for the front track to be wider than the rear.

  5. lowering a 4wd is so fucking difficult. from dealing with the suspension sitting wider to the cv axle hitting the strut body.

    i gotta tear mine back apart in the morning, add another inch to it, then cut 1/2" out of the tie rod so it'll get aligned right. I still have -2 degrees on each side. Preferrably I want -0.5 on each side, a little more on the passenger. These 305's will be fucked if I drive very much on -2.

    so it'll be about a 2/5. Instead of a 2.5-3/5. This is such a fucking hassle.

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