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Location: Vermont | Here is another outfit that does nice truck modifications... This customer wanted to carry horses. They added a 500 gallon water tank and a cab overhang for a couple bales of hay. 
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Location: Northern Utah | You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed. |
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Location: Tennessee | They used the dreaded 6.4L? Don't they know Ford's going under by 2010?? FOOLS! ;-) |
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Location: Rocky Mount N.C. | Originally written by Painted Horse on 2008-04-10 8:05 PM You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed. That's either a F450 or a F550. GVW on a F450 is something like 16,000# and the F550 is something like 19,000#. Take another look.... It has four rear tires. They build some good lookin stuff!!
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Location: Vermont | Originally written by Painted Horse on 2008-04-10 8:05 PM You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed. Hey its their ad...take it up with them... I just passed your concern onto gregt@800toolbox.com
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Location: sc | Thats one way to solve trailer sway. |
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Location: MS | That is really nice, but I think I would want some kind of rails on that ramp. It is pretty high. And I wonder where the ramp goes after you load up... 
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Location: Newport News, VA | Looks slippery, too, being all metal. I wonder why they didn't cover it in rubber matting, before putting the the traction strips across it? I would imagine for most horses, it would quite a bit of training to get them to walk up a plain metal ramp like that, because it would be really loud. I bet the ramp unhooks and slides up under the "bed/trailer", just like on the old horse vans. I wonder how heavy it is? The ramp on the old horse van where I used to ride was definitely a two man job and that ramp was REALLY steep. I had a hard time walking up and down it on my own. I HATED loading an unloading horses. They eventually had it recovered for better traction and had a wooden rest made that made for a small step down for the horses at the end of the ramp, but greatly reduced the angle of the ramp. Their's DID have fold out wooden sides and a horse still one day freaked out and went through the side and off the ramp leaving him with some nasty gashes that required a lot of stitches. |
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Trailer...who needs a trailer?
