[taboky]

What do you use for ballast in the rear? I need as much of the bed as possible for work. Minimum recommended ballast for me is 800lbs. Looking for options.

Steve

 

[tfalk]

Sand bags... also useful if you get stuck...
Don't use bags of rock salt. Ask me how I know... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

 

[Manx]

I myself use nothing

By Westerns recommendations I should have 720 pounds.
I have a long bed super cab and have no problems at all pushing or stacking. The longer wheel base helps.

There are times when I think the weight would help but at the same time, most of the time I think it would hurt me.
There's allot of fast forward and reverse

 

[rogerhammer]

Usually the 100 gallion fuel tank in the bed is full of fuel, and depending on what job it was on recently, it might have man hole covers or inlet tops in the bed. Never had any problems with an empty truck plowing, cause after you drop the plow, you have all the weight you need on the front axle, assuming you have a diesel.

 

[taboky]

So what is the ballast suggestion for? I know in my old F150 w/plow, I put weight in the rear just for traction while running 2wd. I didn't know about ballast then.

Steve

 

[moosehunter]

Sand bags. Actually I think they call them sand "tubes" at the local home store. With my 8' Western Pro Poly on my F250, and the "tubes" at 70 pounds per, I was running with 8 to 10 bags. Helped keep the stress of the front end and traction was never a problem.

Thus ends my humble .02