Tacoma doing work...

Yes, yes it will.
And we want pictures.

 

I've been making improvements to my yard by putting top soil on patchy spots in the grass. This is 16/20lb bags of soil:



Put a little weight on the tailgate...but it was a short 1.5 mile drive home.

 

Does truck camping count as work????

 

Got a smoking deal on a John Deere Gator and went and picked it up today. Ended up renting a 5x8 trailer from Home Depot with ramps which made the job easy.

 

Using S Mode for this? What speed did you top out on the drive?

 

Yes. 75 or so. It didnt struggle too bad. The total weight of it all was probably in the 4500lbs range of I had to guess.

I only went about 10 miles with it. No problems.

 

I need to go to the landfill and have them weigh this. Picture of the rear wheel, and I have a 3” lift.

 

Majority of my payloads as well

 

14' trailer of unknown weight. 2500 lbs of tractor with some additional accessories in the bed. Total weight probably between 4k and 5k somewhere.

The real kicker was that I had a 4 hour highway drive with it. 4th gear and 65mph on level ground and 3rd gear up hills.

All in all, I was proud of my little truck but if I had to do that stuff often I'd be looking for a Tundra.

 

Nothing to heavy. Load of old clothes and junk from cleanin' out the garage.



Now the FIRST load, which was mostly books had her bouncin' off the bump stops!

: )B

 

Exactly. Yeah, you may be able to pull it but can you STOP it?

 

the answer is yes, always yes.

 

25 40lb bags of wood stove pellets

 

yes ....get a bigger truck....lol

 

thats crazy that they didnt paint it because it might rust, cmon finish the job

 

I've hauled similar loads of rock, but cut as drill core. Both have Dakars, 3rd gen also has airbags.



or cut samples off to the lab in my second gen

 

Toed a load of wet dirt on a 8x10 dump trailer, total weight was 12660 pounds truck and trailer, checked on truck stop scales. Wouldn't do it everyday but she did just fine. Scan guage didnt get over 205 on trans temp, but it was mid fifties

 

Just earning its keep. Hauling all sorts of stuff to and from job sites. Hasn’t let me down yet.

 

If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of research work are you doing that requires sending samples to a lab?

 

Mineral exploration, both those photos were from copper gold exploration programs. Samples go to labs for assay.