Ford F-Series trucks are made to do jobs of all sizes and come a variety of ways so that you can pick what is best for yourself and your lifestyle. We are going to break down what is up with the Ford F series truck and what will fit your needs best as a consumer.
The Ford F-150 is the starter truck for Ford, but don’t be fooled: it has been a top seller since the 1970’s. It's a versatile truck you can use to accomplish a wide variety of things for your job or your home life. From a bedful of mulch to pulling a project car to your garage to the new playset for the kids to anything you may need, the F-150 has a solid reputation, and for good reason.
You probably want to use or need a Ford F-250, F-350, or F-450 when you need to really haul some stuff. House remodels, rocks for landscaping, towing a pretty heavy trailer or boat, or a ton of farming equipment or haybales. A Super Duty truck is a lot more than just weight and leverage, though. Here's some of the features that make a Super Duty ready to user for some of the toughest work you have.
It takes a lot of torque and energy to pull a heavy trailer through a couple of states and up steep mountain passes to get it to where it needs to go. Ford F-Series trucks are made to do jobs of all sizes. Think of the F-150 as a claw hammer. It's a versatile, dependable tool you can use to accomplish a wide array of things, from carrying a bedful of mulch for a residential landscaping project to pulling a newly purchased project car to your garage. Picture a Ford Super Duty truck as the pickup equivalent of a sledgehammer. You use a Ford F-250, F-350, or F-450 when you need to haul enough sheetrock to wall a small house or tow a trailer loaded to the sky with massive hay bales. But a Super Duty truck is a lot more than just weight and leverage. Here's a list of some of the features that make a Super Duty ready to knock out the toughest work you swing it at.
It takes a lot of torque to do some of the hauling and pulling that some of the hardest working people in America do. The standard engine in the F-250 is a 6.2-liter gas V8 that produces 385 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of torque. Ford also has a 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbodiesel V8 to pull 475 horses and an incredible 1,050 lb-ft of torque.
Ford offers a six-speed automatic but the F-250 with the smallest gas V8. All other Super Duty configurations get a 10-speed auto with Normal, Slippery, Tow/Haul, Eco, and Deep Sand/Snow modes; trucks equipped with the Tremor off-road package come with those as well as a Rock Crawl setting.
A bunch of different cab styles and bed lengths make the Super Duty fit the right people for the job and for the payload. A Regular Cab is available F-250, F-350, and F-450 XL and XLT models. The trim level selection expands for SuperCab but the F-450 does not. Every Super Duty trim level is compatible with the generously sized Crew Cab. At 6.75 feet long, the Super Duty's shortest bed option is not really all that short after all. But, for even more cargo capacity with your Super Duty, there's an eight-foot bed.
The F-250 and F-350 may look a lot alike, but only the F-350 is available with dual rear wheels. The F-450 is even more hardcore: Ford only offers it as a dually.
If you're wondering how much Super Duty can tow, it depends on what kind of towing you're thinking about doing. It can tow with a hitch ball, fifth-wheel setup, or gooseneck hitch. When set up properly, the F-350 dually can pull 21,000 pounds. A similarly focused diesel F-450 is able to tow 24,200. Wow.
The 10-ton mark is just the starting point for the F-250's maximum available gas gooseneck and 5th-wheel towing rating. Fifth wheel towing hits its peak at 32,500 pounds, with the diesel F-350 dually and F-450. The F-450 has more gooseneck towing capacity in reserve.
Finding the best Super Duty option for you, whether it be the F-250, F-350, or the F-450, is something we’d love to help you with. We think the hardest part is coming up with a way to completely utilize your Super Duty's capabilities. Give us a call today at 262-284-8844 and we can help you get the Super Duty you need for work! (or play, we won’t judge)