Try this with a Ridgeline

"atfsgeoff" (atfsgeoff) 07/16/2017 at 19:32 • Filed to: None

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Tore up part of my wood deck walkway and replaced it with concrete pavers. 1 ton of gravel plus another thousand pounds of pavers in one truckload. There’s another stack of pavers hiding behind the one on the left that you can’t see.

The truck wasnt even close to the bump stops. The old girl was made for this.

Sovande > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 19:34

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Ridgeline has a good payload capacity. Best in class, I think.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 19:39

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It wasn’t nearly that much, but I had probably 800lbs of bricks in the trunk of my SUV last month. The back was squatted way down when we finished loading it, but once I turned it on the load-leveling shocks did their thing and you couldn’t tell.

TorqueToYield > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 19:41

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Now try getting the 26 mpg highway the Ridgeline gets.

Almost like different vehicles are better at different things.

Alfalfa > Sovande 07/16/2017 at 19:47

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I’ll still argue that the Ridgeline is all the truck most people need, but the load in the OPs truck is apparently about double the Ridgeline’s payload capacity

atfsgeoff > TorqueToYield 07/16/2017 at 19:47

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this truck gets 17ish highway.

Birddog > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 19:53

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No, no, no.. You’re surely mistaken. The FP said the Ridgeline is all the truck you’ll ever need. Multiple times. Therefore anyone with a traditional truck is just wrong.

Alfalfa > Birddog 07/16/2017 at 19:54

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Sometimes being wrong just feels so right.

PWRandSPD > TorqueToYield 07/16/2017 at 20:00

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This truck gets 22-24 on the highway...

I might even be able to do it with that payload...

But this is made for a completely different purpose and does not ride anything like a car, or fit in many parking spaces.

Alfalfa > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 20:01

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We moved a bunch of pavers and a lazyboy chair in my brother’s F150. While we’re loading the pavers my wife says “are you sure the truck can handle this?”.

I laughed.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 20:21

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The Ridgeline can do that.

atfsgeoff > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/16/2017 at 20:26

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can it, now? from what I’m seeing the new ones have a max payload capacity of 1588 lbs, which is roughly half what I had loaded in the back of the F-250, on top of a 500lb steel utility cap and 450 lbs of people. And I was still within its GVWR.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 21:39

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I would expect a truck like that would be able to handle that load easily.... though I would have been inclined to put those pavers ahead of the rear axle for better weight distribution.

I moved about that number of pavers (but nothing else at the same time) in my Focus Wagon - carefully stacked in the front and rear seat floor to keep the weight more in the middle, down low and between the front and rear wheels. It pretty much put the car at or a little over it’s weight limit... but still quite stable due to how the car was loaded.

I took it really easy on the short distance I was driving with the paver stones in the car.

Though if I put all that weight stacked at the very back of the trunk in the Focus like how you put it at the back of the truck bed, it would definitely have been very unsafe/unstable.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > PWRandSPD 07/16/2017 at 21:40

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Or fit in many garages...

atfsgeoff > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 07/16/2017 at 22:07

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The gravel was the majority of the weight, and it was right above / slightly ahead of the rear axle. No big.

Spoon II > atfsgeoff 07/16/2017 at 22:21

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Comparing it to an F250 isn’t exactly a fair test. It’s like saying “let’s see a Honda CRV do that!”

RallyWrench > atfsgeoff 07/17/2017 at 01:02

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Yup.

PWRandSPD > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 07/17/2017 at 11:56

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So true, my trucks fat a$$ can not fit in many garages if any. Mine would probably also hit its head as well. It does not on the back of flatbed tow trucks well either. Have to use some boards as it hangs over the edges.