75% of truck owners tow 1/year or less?

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I picked up a load of groceries today. No trailer...

 

[LittleBill21]

I picked up a load of groceries today. No trailer...

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guess that's just for the day? I would need a trailer in addition for the weekly order. that looks like a nightmare to unload if your not using a pallet fork.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

There is some odd stuff out there, E450, K2500 Blazer, K1500 with a 6.5 diesel, a 2500 (not HD) with a crew cab and 5.5 ft bed (that had a Mex tag). Son has an 8 lug 6.0 gas 1500HD. 16.5" wheels on a SRW F350, ect. I have heard people refer to 5/4T but generally they meant F450/Ram 4500 types. Anyone remember Fords F250 built with a F150 body, maybe 1997? Or Ford 7 lug wheels. Anyone remember the Lincoln pickup, Blackwood or something.

I know the K1500 6.5 exists. but a K2500 Blazer??

And the Ford 7-lug wheels were kind of a classic screw up - how did they expect that concept to catch on?

And even I remember the Lincoln pickups.

 

[ultrarunner]

I tend to agree. I like the looks of a pickup bed. Its a classic.
Where a flat bed is great is for gooseneck towing. I put tool boxes down the sides, to help hold in cargo and of course for tools.

I like some of the pre-fab flatbeds with tool boxes above and below. Really like the “Western” hauler bodies.

Yep… classic going back about 100 years…

My two basket case nut and bolt restoration parked on Treasure Island with San Francisco as a backdrop...

Pickup is quarter ton rated... but I have had twelve 80# concrete sacks in the bed with 40 psi in the rear tires.

 

[Hay Dude]

I know the K1500 6.5 exists. but a K2500 Blazer??

Yes! I have seen a few. Would love to have one, too. Must have been a great driveway snowplowing rig.

And the Ford 7-lug wheels were kind of a classic screw up - how did they expect that concept to catch on?

Yeah, that was a weird one. Those light 3/4 tons were kind of catchy in my opinion, but never caught on. Ford was making way too many trucks and got over it’s skis with that.

And even I remember the Lincoln pickups.

Someone nearby me has one of them. He garages it and takes meticulous care. Soon it’ll be a collectors item.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

guess that's just for the day? I would need a trailer in addition for the weekly order. that looks like a nightmare to unload if your not using a pallet fork.

It's for our church's food pantry. My wife and I do the foot work of buying, delivering, and stocking it. It's the church's money though. We will get about 3 loads this size and it will last 8-12 weeks then repeat the cycle. We got lucky this load and it was palletized and loaded with a lift. We usually have to hand load into the truck then hand unload onto plastic "library carts" then shelf the food from there. We always have to hand unload because it goes in a classroom through only man-doors.

 

[LittleBill21]

It's for our church's food pantry. My wife and I do the foot work of buying, delivering, and stocking it. It's the church's money though. We will get about 3 loads this size and it will last 8-12 weeks then repeat the cycle. We got lucky this load and it was palletized and loaded with a lift. We usually have to hand load into the truck then hand unload onto plastic "library carts" then shelf the food from there. We always have to hand unload because it goes in a classroom through only man-doors.

I'll be honest. if i was running a load like that every couple weeks I would buy a trailer. on and off that bed a million times gets old, even with a helper.

 

[WinterDeere]

It's for our church's food pantry. My wife and I do the foot work of buying, delivering, and stocking it. It's the church's money though. We will get about 3 loads this size and it will last 8-12 weeks then repeat the cycle. We got lucky this load and it was palletized and loaded with a lift. We usually have to hand load into the truck then hand unload onto plastic "library carts" then shelf the food from there. We always have to hand unload because it goes in a classroom through only man-doors.

When I was growing up, we had our Boy Scouts meeting one night per week at our church hall, and then Youth Group two other nights that week. Between that and other associated church dinners, etc., two dozen of us kids were there pretty much 3-4 nights per week.

Point being, if I were hand-shelving that many groceries, I'd be recruiting some of those Scouts or youth group kids to do it, as they usually have community service requirements to meet, anyway. If you don't have that, get some!

 

[LittleBill21]

When I was growing up, we had our Boy Scouts meeting one night per week at our church hall, and then Youth Group two other nights that week. Between that and other associated church dinners, etc., two dozen of us kids were there pretty much 3-4 nights per week.

Point being, if I were hand-shelving that many groceries, I'd be recruiting some of those Scouts or youth group kids to do it, as they usually have community service requirements to meet, anyway. If you don't have that, get some!

oh i did it as a child, and an adult, sometimes though people are conveniently not around

 

[ArlyA]

When I was growing up, we had our Boy Scouts meeting one night per week at our church hall, and then Youth Group two other nights that week. Between that and other associated church dinners, etc., two dozen of us kids were there pretty much 3-4 nights per week.

Point being, if I were hand-shelving that many groceries, I'd be recruiting some of those Scouts or youth group kids to do it, as they usually have community service requirements to meet, anyway. If you don't have that, get some!

We do volunteer work every week. If I had a dollar for each time someone suggested "just ask the boy scouts" I'd have more than enough $$ to buy the machine to get the same job done. They are not out there doing 5 hours a week of volunteering. I did chat with our local scout master, which was again, a waste of time.