what do you haul in the bed of your trucks?

[Anonymous No.1777339]

[Anonymous No.1777349]

air

[Anonymous No.1777354]

Gravel, lumber, trash, dirt bikes. In reality it just sits on the side of the house for months on end.

[Anonymous No.1777375]

>>1777339
Mexicans

[Anonymous No.1777431]

>>1777339
stuff, mainly garage type stuff (odd and ends tools mostly) that i no longer have any other place for because no garage atm sadly.

[Anonymous No.1777450]

Usually just my ego, but 2-3 times a month it ends up being useful for moving around old computer stuff. Usually more convenient to tow a trailer whenever I need to move something really bulky

[Anonymous No.1777451]

Usually just my ego, but 2-3 times a month it ends up being useful for moving around old computer stuff. Usually more convenient to tow a trailer whenever I need to move something really bulky

[Anonymous No.1777452]

>>1777339
Your mom

[Anonymous No.1777464]

>>1777339
dead body

[Anonymous No.1777523]

>>1777451
More hauling than me in a year!! Im jealous

[Anonymous No.1777525]

pallets of shingles, piles of shingles

[Anonymous No.1777603]

My dog, tools, transfer tank for fuel, hay, fencing supplies, stuff for setting up irrigation pipelines, steel, etc. Depends on what I'm doing that day.

[Anonymous No.1777608]

>>1777339
Not a truck but batteries

[Anonymous No.1777629]

surveying equipment

[Anonymous No.1777705]

Literal garbage and the occasional bags of rocks

[Anonymous No.1777709]

Mostly lumber and furniture

[Anonymous No.1777712]

>>1777339
ass

[Anonymous No.1777717]

Tiled my basement years ago so I hauled a bunch of tile and thinset. Wife came home with a kids playground one day. Ive helped a few people move and towed a trailer to help my brother move. Moved some exercise equipment for family. Hauled a fair portion of 2x6s for the shed I built.

Once I buy a utility trailer I will do more towing than hauling.

[Anonymous No.1777725]

>>1777339

[Anonymous No.1777730]

>>1777375
i hope youre bringing them to the dump, or a large cliff

[Anonymous No.1777737]

>Truck
In my far superior van, I haul whatever happens to be free and useful at the time.

[Anonymous No.1777738]

>>1777375
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZu9c1nJIw

sorry its hard to find good quality with all the pc bullshit these days

[Anonymous No.1777741]

>>1777339
I hauled a treadmill once. Its a Silverado with a LV3 v6 (Spiritual successor to the 4.3 Vortec with way more power) and 2.73 highway gearing.

[Anonymous No.1777756]

>>1777339
I'm a carpenter so my bed is usually filled with various tools and a ladder. I also bring along my generator since I'm generous.

[Anonymous No.1777768]

Nothing. My van is for hauling my tools and supplies. My truck is for compensating for my small penis.

[Anonymous No.1777775]

>tfw Americans will never ever get utes
Although I guess we don't anymore either ;_;

[Anonymous No.1777794]

>>1777725
What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.1777799]

>>1777775
We had the Subaru Baja for a minute but that's gone now. Wish there was something else similar, an ute literally fits my needs exactly.

[Anonymous No.1777800]

>>1777768
Yo, let’s see it. The wiener I mean.

[Anonymous No.1777801]

>>1777799
You could try and look for an El Camino, although I imagine even the very newest ones (33 years old at this point) would either be completely thrashed to shit and in need of so much work that you may as well buy a new Ford Ranger, or overpriced boomer showqueens that you wouldn't dare get a speck of mud on.

[Anonymous No.1777824]

>>1777799
My first car was an El Camino. Weird mix of love and hate.

>>1777801
I pass an El Camino that has been for sale for about a year now fairly regularly. Appears in very good shape possibly was a trailer queen but the fact that it has been on sale for so long does make me wonder if I could get it for a good price.

I would need to figure out how to make it only play 80s power ballads and pre Garth Brooks country music.

I would also need to find a new wife because I imagine if I told her she needed to start a meth habit she would leave me.

[Anonymous No.1777825]

>>1777339
>what do you haul in the bed of your trucks?
Nothing. I don't own a truck. Instead, I'm cursed to play car tetris every time I want to load my car up. I want a minivan these days.

[Anonymous No.1777828]

>>1777775
>tfw Americans will never ever get utes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTOEX-qJB8
We have a few Australian imports on the used market. It's possible but it's a huge effort to rebuild, plus requires an Indiana Body-Transfer-Affidavit registration to change its titling nomenclature.

[Anonymous No.1777865]

>>1777756
Is that hard on your truck and is that a fun job for like a 20 yr old asking for a fren

[Anonymous No.1777872]

>>1777339
More than OPs pic in my F150 but it's rocking Hellwig leaves, coilover shocks and Timbren urethane booster springs (none of the above conflict). Mostly steel and machine tools. I installed a liftgate which also is not light.

[Anonymous No.1777881]

>>1777339
I do General contracting and have an 08 Tacoma that is a abolute work horse. Everything goes in the bed from saws (tile,miter, table, Compressors shop vacs ect. Always hauling drywall and lumber although can only really hold about 800lbs before it gets real squirrelly on the front end.

[Anonymous No.1777883]

1400 pounds of bullets in a toyota that's rated for 700 pounds.

[Anonymous No.1777920]

>>1777775
fuck off eurofag we've got the BRAT

[Anonymous No.1777931]

>>1777339
At different times different things. I made a canopy that turns the bac of my ute into a camping station, it has a bed, cooking station, food and water storage and a battery and solar panel. I can unbolt it and slide it off. Then I can carry firewood, building materials, rubbish, garden waste etc

[Anonymous No.1777945]

>>1777339
Depends on what I'm doing. Sometimes firewood, lumber, camping gear, a quad, couches. Whatever I need. But also
>>1777354
>In reality it just sits on the side of the house for months on end.

[Anonymous No.1777952]

>>1777881
Composite bed life I guess? They have good transmissions.
>>1777945
>>1777828
>>1777775
>>1777737
>>1777603
Nice!
>>1777451
Thank you.

Anything else on the regular? Do any use either a camper shell or a tool box?

[Anonymous No.1777953]

>>1777920
>eurofag
Burger education, everyone.

[Anonymous No.1777960]

>>1777945
>>1777945
Based hilux poster

[Anonymous No.1777968]

A bicycle and a bunch of household supplies.

[Anonymous No.1777988]

>>1777960

[Anonymous No.1777992]

>>1777988
Based hilux reposter

[Anonymous No.1778028]

>>1777794
It's from a thread on /pol/ about mattress stores and human trafficking.

[Anonymous No.1778307]

I wanna give this a try in the summer.

[Anonymous No.1778459]

>>1777737
I wish I had taken the van-pill before getting a loan for a meme truck

[Anonymous No.1778476]

not the truck I drive now but here is a picture of some wood

[Anonymous No.1778477]

and a sparky pulled this out of his truck on the job site one day, he also lived in his truck and had cut open the back of the cab so that it connected with the bed, one big chamber with the topper

[Anonymous No.1778491]

Lots of stuff, so long as it's cheap enough. The reason the truck is so weighted down in this picture is that there's 1200 lb of nails in 50 lb boxes under all the wood and a few more boxes in the cab.

[Anonymous No.1778516]

>>1777737
A van is completely useless for hauling gravel, which I do a fuck ton of while running trails through my forest.

Also good luck offroading a van.

[Anonymous No.1778561]

>>1777738
why is that jewish man being so mean to browns?

[Anonymous No.1778570]

>>1777339
>what do you haul in the bed of your trucks?

Red aerated terracota bricks imported from EUROPE.

[Anonymous No.1778627]

>>1778516
best van ever

[Anonymous No.1778628]

>>1777339
euro "Pickups" are superior in every way.

[Anonymous No.1778633]

>>1778628
Bro Toyota is a Japanese company

[Anonymous No.1778700]

[Anonymous No.1778702]

[Anonymous No.1778771]

Diesel is cheap so im using my one ton to do even the most trivial of tasks . Need toothpaste at family dollar ? fuck you society im pulling my dually up in tight .

[Anonymous No.1778911]

Are truck beds a meme? I walk aroung my town in a rural area of idaho and see empty beds daily

[Anonymous No.1778917]

>tfw can’t afford a truck because all used trucks suffer from the “I KNOW WUT I GOT” boomertax where the seller adds on an extra $5,000 to the price because “I KNOW WUT I GOT THESE HERE TRUCKS LAST FER 100,000,000 MILES”
>just want an older used half ton so I can clean my garage, haul sackrete, and haul lumber
It’s all so tiresome

[Anonymous No.1778920]

>>1777730
Based future Walmart shooter

[Anonymous No.1778923]

>>1777881
>can only really hold about 800lbs

WTF is even the point of a truck at that point? My old Sierra 2500HD was fine with over a ton of cement bags in the back, and that's not really much to begin with.

>>1778702

The fuck is this even being managed on 2 rear wheels?

[Anonymous No.1778925]

I only leave things in the truck bed if I can afford a crackhead stealing it

[Anonymous No.1778932]

>>1778917
>“I KNOW WUT I GOT” boomertax

Trucks hold their value better than other cars, IDK what to tell you. Other than to hit up auctions or be willing to go pretty far to pick one up.

You can get crazy deals on relatively lightly-used government vehicles every now and again. Doubly so if you're willing to put up with an alternative fuel system. The 2500HD mentioned in >>1778923 runs on CNG, had 50,000 miles on it, almost no cosmetic damage, and cost me $5,000. Tank was expired and they're not cheap to replace, but still.

Also, $312 for registration for the thing, what a load of shit. Fucking California, man.

[Anonymous No.1778933]

>>1778917
the more often you're looking the better chance you have of finding one you can afford

be willing to drive it from a different state and your options open up quite a bit

[Anonymous No.1778941]

>>1777339
plywood, sheetrock, hauling shit to the dump. got a roof rack for trim too. 8 ft bed masterrace.

[Anonymous No.1778948]

>>1777603
Living the life anon

[Anonymous No.1778949]

>>1777775
Kia is going to make one soon

[Anonymous No.1778953]

>>1778932
They’re charging $12k for a 2011-2013 truck with 112k miles. Is that actually reasonable “yep well *spits cope* these here trucks last ferever my granddaddy drove a chebby an my daddy drove a chebby so I drive a chebby” prices or does that fall under “I know wut I got”?

[Anonymous No.1778959]

>>1778941
What not get a jeep cherokee from the 90s

[Anonymous No.1778967]

>>1777737
I'm getting to a point where I have to carry so many tools in my truck that its impossible to keep organized during the workweek
>tfw about to take the vanpill

[Anonymous No.1778972]

>>1778953
That's stupid expensive, but then again used car prices are also pretty retarded too. Trucks don't get sold particularly cheap unless we get another gas price spike for a few years.

[Anonymous No.1778973]

>>1778953

Depends heavily on the truck in question. Pretty high (over market by like $3k-$5k for a base-model 150 or similar in good condition.

Little high/about right for a 250/350 with a couple options.

KBB is your friend. Being realistic about your expectations also helps. If all you really need is a beater to haul equipment and material, you can easily get a POS with 200k+ miles for under $2000. My first truck had 235k on it, wouldn't shift into first gear from a stop unless the engine was off, and looked like it had been left in field for the better part of two years (mostly because it had). But it ran well enough to get stuff from point A to point B and I only paid $600 for it. I'd still have it if I hadn't let it run out of coolant, blow a piston ring, and sold it for $300. Or if I had the space to keep it while I fixed it up.

Either way, if you have the capacity to deal with the extra maintenance a similar truck would require, you can go really cheap (potentially even free) and still get something useful.

[Anonymous No.1778976]

>>1778973
What’s the upper cargo weight limit for something ranger/s-10/4cyl sized? I’d like to get a regular base model half ton if I can but there’s a ‘99 4cyl Mazda ranger with like ~120k mi in my area for around $2.5k. Mostly just looking for something to use to haul shit out of my garage and material to lightly renovate my house. Might try and hitch a trailer to whatever I buy eventually but I don’t have anywhere to put a flatbed so that’s a huge maybe for the long term.

[Anonymous No.1778984]

>>1778972
trucks make money, if you're not making money with your truck, you're doing it wrong

[Anonymous No.1778989]

>>1778702
that seems like a lot of tongue weight br/o/

[Anonymous No.1778998]

>>1778984
Not him but I have to be able to buy the goddamn truck before I can make money with it

[Anonymous No.1779003]

>>1778976
>What’s the upper cargo weight limit for something ranger/s-10/4cyl sized?

Not much. They're usually rated for not much more than 1000lb of cargo, and maybe another 50% on top if that cargo is a trailer. Check out the GVWR and GCWR of the model in question for "exact" numbers.

You CAN haul more than that...but you really shouldn't. That being said, odds are very good you don't need more capacity if you can't point out _specifically_ why that's not enough. It's cheaper to just rent a truck for the once-in-a-blue-moon heavy tow than to deal with owning one.

Assuming the thing's in good condition, $2,500 is a fair price. You might be able to negotiate another couple hundred or so off, but that's about what I'd expect just off the top of my head. KBB backs this up.

[Anonymous No.1779018]

>>1778628
Lmao, imagine believing this

[Anonymous No.1779024]

>>1777952
I've thought about buying that plano trunk so many times

[Anonymous No.1779105]

Today's haul...

[Anonymous No.1779106]

>>1778989

Yeah my poor old pickup has definitely earned it's keep around here! I did recently get a 1994 International 4700 to take over heavy towing duty, but I'll have to do a bunch of work to it before I start using it. It has the Spicer 7 speed (6+ is what it is known as) and it likes to pop out of 5th gear. And then I'll have to shorten it up, build a flatbed for it, and do some body work and paint.

[Anonymous No.1779158]

>>1777339
Half a yard of gravel all winter because lolno4wd

[Anonymous No.1779327]

>>1777339
Cargo.

[Anonymous No.1780355]

Yesterday's hauls...

Had to haul a culvert from our shop to the farm to get it installed and ready for water.

[Anonymous No.1780356]

Also had to bring the hay spear for the 920 caterpillar so I'd have some forks to make unloading the culverts a bit easier...

[Anonymous No.1780358]

Then had to haul some hay from the farm over to some corrals where we have a couple pens of calves we are feeding...

[Anonymous No.1780359]

Ended up taking this full load and another load 2/3's load from another outside stack to clean it up for next hay season.

[Anonymous No.1780360]

Then after hauling that hay to the corrals I loaded up 20 sticks of 2-3/8" drill stem and took it back home to the shop. We bought it to use for fixing the corrals and ended up going another route instead, so the pile of pipe was just sitting there getting surrounded by dirt, so I figured might as well haul it to the shop and use it to make some bale feeders.

Didn't get a pic of that though.

Today's haul:

Some nice thick plate for welding tables!

[Anonymous No.1780361]

Whatever I want

[Anonymous No.1780362]

The bottom two are 1-1/2" thick T slot tables, about 30" wide and one is 6.5' long and the other is about 4' long... The one on top of the sideboard is a 3/4' plate about 3.5' wide by 7' long, and the two on top of the pallet are 2.5" thick and 2" thick probably around 3'x4'

Got all that for $520. Gonna be making a few more welding tables now!

[Anonymous No.1780365]

Got those two thick pieces separated. They were a punch press die so they were pinned so they would press together and cut sheet metal. They had sit outside for a while, so it took some heating and beating with a rosebud torch tip and a sledge hammer to get them apart...

Those plates are stacked on top of my 3/4" welding table that is 40"x96". That thick plate makes it look tiny.

[Anonymous No.1780626]

Do you even haul bro?