I looked at the new F-150s yesterday and was quite surprised at the payloads. A new XLT crewcab optioned pretty much like my 2013 (4x4, 36 gallon tank, skid plates, some power options but not decadent) had almost 1900 pounds payload, my 2013 has 1319...
Best fuel is acetylene. When I was a field construction boilermaker working winters outside in Chicago we'd make salamanders from a piece of 6-8" pipe with legs welded to it and holes burned in it. Then stick an acetylene torch in it, nice heater.
Thunder Mountain wrote:It seems that the new users of public lands are just pigs with no back country ethics. They wouldn't know what real wilderness was if it bit them in the butt.Much of what is now considered American wilderness was once populated...
