after looking at the EXCURSION post, I have a similar question...
 

What is the most you have ever put in the bed of your pickup ??..

In my 2001 f-150 super crew I put 2,400 lbs. I usually just put 1 pallet of wood pellets in there that equals 1-ton (50 bags), didn't realize this particular nursery had 60 bag pallets. Don't think I will ever do that again...

OH, and in a crusty, rusty but trusty 86 toyota pickup w/ rotted frame frozen brakes I had put in 2,300 of gravel, but didn't know until I hit the scales...

guy at the gravel place said 8 bucks / ton, but since I have a small truck only 5 bucks / truck load, guy w/ 5 ton bucket loader gently pours in 3/4 white stone, guy at the desk asks to stop on the scale so nobody b!tches, just for the hell of it I ask hey how much is in there... he's like 2,300 lbs.. thought the truck would break in half..

I'll bet it was squatting pretty low, eh?

I hauled this huge Sago Palm tree one time in the bed that must have weighted 2000-2500#...This was in an F-250, though. The rear was straining a little.

The rubber baby bumpers were bottomed out on the leaf springs.. tires looked flat... STUPID move...

I had two full plastic wraped pallets of retaining wall bricks in the back of my dually.....no idea on the weight...had to be 3000+lbs. The first pallet made the truck squat and almost touch the overload spring perches......the second pallet made them touch but the truck barelywent down father then that. the ride was like a caddy and stopping took a little more time and distance......only because i didnt want the load sliding forward into the bed! :eek: but it handled it liek a champ! :D
it was a 1999 k3500 crew cab dually 4x4 7.4 auto by the way. :D

You wouldn't believe the **** I see piled in pickup trucks down here. These rednecks and 'urban moving engineers' come up with some crafty ways to pile the bed of their truck 20 feet high of crap. It's hilarious! :D:D:D

It's not uncommon to see a dumped load on the side of the road or under an overpass when they slam into it with their tall loads. :)

Was " GRANNY " up there strapped to a rockin chair.. ?? :D :D

Yep...but it was a recliner with a tv stand. Rabbit ears and all. :D

DAYUM Trout,,, better watch out,,, ol'e Nicky boy is nipping at your heels if you know what I mean.. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D :D

I had an old vw pickup which is pretty much a rabbit with a bed, anyways being a front wheel drive truck, I could tell when there was too much wight in the bed in gravel when the truck couldn't get out of the gravel slip. The tires would just spin, cause they were berely touching the ground.

Customer come in the shop the other day to have us put a hitch on his truck. 1996 Chevy 1/2 ton, 4x4, E-Cab, Stepside. Had a helluva time getting the hitch to fit....the bumper was bent all to hell. He says, "yup, bent that thing pullin a trailer house for my brother". "The thing probably weighed 20k or so, can't beat them Chevys". I kept a straight face until he left. The sad part, I believe him.

I'm gonna bet that trailer house weighed more than that though.

Buck

Pair of fully dressed big blocks in Ranger.

I use to work in a stone quarry and the policy was we couldn't load pickup's with the equipment because it was to easy to ruin something. One day a truck comes in to get a load of pea stone, the pea stone happens to be right by the office, they back up to the pile and start shoveling. Every once in a while checking their springs to see how far their squatting not realizing their bumper is sitting on the stone. They come to pull around on the scales with the back end squatting so far i don't know how they could steer it ended up being just shy of 2 tons. To get off the scale a little ramp goes down maybe a foot, so they come off fast enough that the momentum causes the truck to squat down and rip the spare tire out from under the truck. Personally i would have taken about half the load off but not them they pick up the tire throw it on top and head off down the road. It was hilarious to watch their whole ordeal, i still kind of wonder if they made it home.

Well there was this one time, I had to pick up some lumber, and the wife had the truck so......