Looks like she pulls pretty good. I’m the same way on the highway with my 080 back there. Stoked to pass someone haha. Gotta love how you can have a normal ish pickup and pull that kind of weight. Idc what anyone says 30k is a lot for a pickup truck. Having the automatic is nice and makes towing so much easier. I love my 5500 with a stick but you gotta plan you shifts or you lose all momentum. And an automatic is a lot faster off the line. Main reason why my new truck has an auto. Makes towing so so much nicer. Just out for a simple drive Digging the set up you have now. It looks very familiar ha How’s the braking power with the ford?
V-BELT and SON Yeah I was smiling when I passed that truck! Haha. Have you towed your Kubota with the 3500 yet? The braking is awesome!!! The engine brake and exhaust brake combo does a great job! Try to use the actual brakes as little as possible.
Work&Play TV yea same here i try to hardly ever use the brake if possible. It I haven’t towed the kubota with the 3500 year. Only towed the mulcher so quite a bit lighter but felt very comfortable and the 3500 could use bigger brakes 550 or 5500 is the best way to go
Enjoyed the video, you are geared down for sure with 4.88. It’s a nice setup for though. I love the 4.30 F450. Be careful around those pump stations they sometimes don’t bury the utilities very deep.
New subscriber. Question: I'm ordering a new F550 with the beefiest front and rear suspension and payload (19.5k) upgrades available. In addition to hauling heavy equipment I'll also be using the truck as my daily driver to and from my job sites each day. When not hauling a load, will the truck ride really horribly rough with that suspension upgrade our am I just worried for no reason??
Fraser & Co Land Clearing Well she will be bumpy but it’s not that bad. First tile I drove the truck was almost across Canada and it was empty. Did it with no problem. You will be ok.
workplaytv Whats your opinion on the gearing? I'll be hauling loads probably 50% of the time. You recommend the 4.88 or should I find a happy medium with the 4.3 and run at lower rpm highway speeds? Thank bud.
Seth no Im in Canada but yeah. Here the minimum you need is class 3. Single vehicle or combination over 26,000lbs and condition 15 which allows me to tow trailer over 4500kgs.
Depends on what you plan on pulling if it’s something like this you would need at least 4.88 or deeper if it’s a boat or an rv of some kind you should be fine
@@JimmyCasket02 I wound up buy the truck. Certified 2017, love it too, very happy with it. And no the largest things I'll be towing is my boat which is around 12k to 13k and a loader and car hauler which I think is around the same weight combined. My old f150 eco boost would tow them both alrught but got less than 8 mph and they both would jerk the truck around a lot. Especially the boat because it's got hydraulic brakes. Hit a bad bump and it would wind up locking the brakes on the trailer for a second and would get kind of sketchy in the truck. I've got nothing bad to say about the eco boost though it treated me good and had power. We'll see how the diesel does (:
30 L per 100 km comes out to 8 mpg. That's not bad considering the rear ratio and weights you move...assuming the average weight is close to what you have in this video.
Dimitri Tsahas Because I want a truck that is versatile. And when we are in the road staying at hotels and going to the grocery store and all that this is much easier to get around.
We have a 2017 f450 6.7 chassis cab (contractor bed) and it tows terrible! Hauling an empty 14' dump trailer up 5 or 6% grade with my foot to the floor and I'm lucky if it maintains 55mph. With 10,000 lbs as soon as I hit the same grade max speed drops to 45. I'm thinking about buying a mini excavator (11'000 lb) but if I do I may have to buy another truck to haul it. If I knew they detuned the chassis cab before we bought it we never would have bought it. To me it makes no sense that they detune the type of truck that is going to be pulling the heaviest loads in it's class!
Timothy They are dialled down because more often than not these trucks are used to have a enclosed box body on them and used for delivery trucks or a dump body used to put on a lot of miles and starting and stopping. The engine and drivetrain will last longer that way. You always have the option to tune the truck. I will be doing that myself.
@@workplaytv Most of the ones I see around here have contractor bed's like our's and a lot of them are pulling dump trailers, skid steer's or mini excavators. Of course I'm sure their used differently in different part's of the country so I can only talk about what I see here. (Central California) We're considering a tuner but worried about voiding the warranty. A mechanic told me that they actually put a different turbo and intake on them than the pick ups to de-tune them.
@@workplaytv One thing for sure, yours seems like it pull's why better than ours. I'm taking our's in next week to have it checked. I couldn't even imagine pulling 30,000 lbs with ours. Probably wouldn't break 25 mph.
Timothy Yeah it’s a tough decision to make. I really find mine pulls quite well. Obviously on hills it slows down but no problem getting up to speed. With that said I will be tuning mine eventually.
