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Campfire 'Bwana
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We have an '11 F350(duals) that get used every day for hauling round bales.
Including the flatbed and bales it's a 5000-6000lb load.
It will bottom out sometimes when you hit a big bump but hasn't hurt anything yet.
The engine is fine, I think we have the fleet version(which is lower HP) but power is not an issue either way.
When it hits the exhaust burnoff mode and we happen to be off road it works to just put in manual mode in 1st or 2nd gear and run it at high rpm.
We've tortured it in the mud for the last month and it does surprisingly well for a fullsize, heavy pickup w/duals...
Around these parts at least half the guys I know(who actually use a pickup) run Ford's(a lot of 6.7's), a few Dodges and Chevys but hands down Ford owns the work truck market.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Slightly off topic...
but the first time I ever drove across Montana, way back when... I came to the conclusion, half the Ford Pickups ever made ended up in Montana...
There are certainly a lot of them there...
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Campfire Outfitter
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I bought a new 2015 F350 6.7 last year. I have about 11,000 miles on it. It has run like a top so far. I have no mechanical abilities so I cannot offer any techno-talk, but I can say I've had zero issues with it. I tow a horse trailer throughout Washington and sometimes down into Oregon. It's like the horses and trailer aren't even back there.
No gripes here on the 6.7.
Wade
"Let's Roll!" - Todd Beamer 9/11/01.
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Campfire Outfitter
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'11 F250 CC/SB, 85K Mi, owned it since brand new. Only 1 complaint and that's the 26gal fuel tank with the short box. I haven't experienced a single issue that required shop time. No tuners or deletes, running bone-stock.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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I would probably have bought an F250 diesel last time around, except for the wimpy 26 gal. tank available in the model I wanted. Local dealer offered to install an aftermarket gravity feed tank in the bed of a new truck, further reducing available cargo capacity- a non-starter for me. That, and the fact that the sheet metal at the top of the box on my last Ford tore in two, due to frame flex during a long, rocky climb on a mountain lion hunt.....
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Rear brake line got ripped off today.
The ruts are deep and got dried out and hard.
POS Ford......
The reg cab '11 will hold 50-60 gallons. More than an '03 or '08 of similar configuration.
Special order option by the previous owner.
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Campfire Regular
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My '13 F250 6.7L King Ranch got 18 MPG (when not towing), zero mechanical issues, but it only had 28,000 mi on it when I traded it in last month. It towed my loaded 7' x 16' x 7' enclosed trailer like it wasn't even there. The small fuel tank and lack of a DEF fluid gauge were a PIA.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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My '13 F250 6.7L King Ranch got 18 MPG (when not towing), zero mechanical issues, but it only had 28,000 mi on it when I traded it in last month. It towed my loaded 7' x 16' x 7' enclosed trailer like it wasn't even there. The small fuel tank and lack of a DEF fluid gauge were a PIA. Dont take it on a long rocky climb during a mountain lion hunt.
Camp is where you make it.
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My 99 7.3 is getting tired and starting to nickel and dime me and I got hit in it the other day. Sorry to hear that. My 99 7.3 is the best vehicle I have ever owned. It's at 278000 and it runs like a dream.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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