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The more I use my truck as a truck...the more I want an 8' box.
It wouldn't fit in the garage tho.
Camp is where you make it.
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There are obvious trade-offs between the 2. Which one do you guys prefer? As I real trucker I usually pull a 53 foot trailer, 13' 6" high. Oh, now I get your question! Eight foot is the only way to go if you have a farm or large property. The shorty is OK for city life but nothing but a toy for country life.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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But then, he doesn't have three girls and a very large wife either. Now you see if you had a full length truck with full length bed, you would have to park farther out in the parking lot of the resturants, and the girls and very large wife would have to walk off some of that extra large both going and coming. Full length beds are a problem in town but out in the country or traveling across country they are great!
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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8 foot. If that makes the truck too long for your four wheeling just get a little Jeep & have a buddy with an 8 foot bed haul your chit..
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Eight foot is the only way to go if you have a farm or large property. The shorty is OK for city life but nothing but a toy for country life. I must have it all wrong then, or I'm just getting by to get by...I've never quite considered 'old gray' a toy.. I guess it has something to do with the fact that my truck is now 32 years young and I won't part with it (although I've had some ridiculous offers to). Our home is on a large piece of property plus we have my FIL's farm now, plus the properties in Canada, and I've been able to get by with this old truck, an '02 Excursion diesel, and a variety of trailers here. We still have an old but nice '88 Suburban 4x4 in Canada I bought when it was a year old (we have a new 16' dump trailer up there). I guess if I had the money, I'd go out and buy a new F250 Super Duty long box, but since I don't, and I'm a simple man, I'll live with old stuff and make what I do have work. I kind of like no-payment living.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I am a firm believer in "work with what you have". If it works for you and best of all, has no payments than good for you. I have an eight foot bed on my old Ford F150. I bought it used and have used it hard. If I were to replace it I would be handicapped here on the farm with a short bed. We fill the old pickup from front to back, floor to canopy top every week for our trip to Saturday Market. It hauls hay, fertiliser and countless other full loads. I would love a new F350 but would never make payments so the old truck will just have to keep on working.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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I'm sure enough not a city guy,but my last truck a 98 dodge,I got with a short bed, club cab. That is not a full 4 door. The whole truck is about the same length as a 8 ft bed,std cab. My last truck before that was a extended cab Ford,8 ft box.You couldn ot doa U turn on a 6 lane highway. Put a 20 ft gooseneck stock trailer on it and you needed 6 acres to turn it around. My present truck with a gooseneck,now I can manuver around and get my trailer in and out of tight places and when I do have to take my truck to town,it is easier to get around. If I am hauling anything,I usually am pulling a 22 ft flat bed or the 20 ft gooseneck stock trailer
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I would not know about pulling any kind of trailer. My every day truck.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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4 door, short box; I use a trailer when necessary.
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8' bed for me. I'd get a 10' if they made one.
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I too like to "offroad" as much as I can. For me the short bed works best, and there is nothing that doesn't fit in a short box that I haul, so it's better for me. Motorcycles, wood, camping gear, even my nine-foot pontoon boat fits fine. So, I wouldn't gain anything with an 8' box over the shorter one. BTW, the Ford has a 6.75' box, so the 8' box is just over 1' longer (not much difference).
For me, a F350 Super Cab 4x4 (not crew cab) with short box is about as good as it would get for me (once the kids are old enough to move out). Right now I've got a crew cab short box and it's too long for offroad, and the 6.75' bed is about perfect for a compact truck camper.
eta: what can a 8' bed accomplish that a 6.75' bed not accomplish? Does closing the tailgate on plywood make you feel good, or is there something about it that having the tailgate down doesn't do? Really, I understand you can haul 16" more whatever, but what is it that you're hauling that would fall out the back of the truck (lumber isn't it if you're buying 8' lumber) with the 6.75' bed.
Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
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I live in town, and about the only things I haul are stuff for shooting matches, and deer in the fall. I don't even drive a full-sized pickup any more, a Frontier is all I need. I have plenty of room in the extended cab for me and my "stuff" mostly, and the across-the-bed toolbox handles most of the other "stuff", and still leaves room for deer and whatever other bulky stuff a single guy might haul around. It parks "good", which is important here.
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