What do you use a pick up for?

[koolhandlinc]

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I was thinking and I began wondering what do most of use use our trucks for? If you can explain more closely please do.

I will explain about myself now. I always owned a truck and never new why....After many years of moving myself and my friends and family. hauling stuff for my gardens, and now recently I have been using for a second job, I have hauled motorcycles and four wheelers, I have hauled shingles for my house and lumber

So I guess it is a general utility purpose for me. Now that I have begun rasing cattle as a second job I need a little more. No a lot more but I don't want to give up the fuel economy.

Mahindra here I come!!!

[pee wee]

I'm a self employed woodworker, so my truck is used to pick up plywood and lumber, and carry tools and work to installations. Sometimes the bed of my '93 Nissan pickup isn't quite big enough to carry everything I need, but it is so fuel efficient and mechanically reliable and easy to maneuver that I never considered a jumbo pickup. I've also used it to haul fill dirt, gravel, bricks and concrete block, anvils and steel scrap, help on moving day, and to pick up appliances.
A couple times a year I'll take it off road, but it's usually city driving.
I don't use it for long drives when I can avoid it, the bench seat is murder on my back after a few hours. I hope the Mahindra's seats are better.

[Andy]

I'm a website designer that was once a heavy equipment operator. I grew up in construction as my dad was a general contractor. I've always had a pickup. Used to use pickups to haul tools and fuel to machinery. Now that my work is primarily on the web, I use my pickup for yard work and so that people can ask me to help them move

I love trucks and tractors/machinery...plus where I live you really have to have 4WD for the longish winter we have.

[cadillacman]

my 89 chevy truck, with 352,000 miles, dubbed "the escal-rado" hauls alot of this:



and when we lived near chicago every summer it was used as a sandbag hauler like this:

[Andy]

Dang! We used to see a lot of floods in the valley I grew up in, in Monroe Washington. Got air lifted by a helicopter once.

[koolhandlinc]

I forgot the 4 wheeling part. I have had a few 4 wheel drives but they were all gas hogs!

The last few years I have been helping my friend with his cattle and I see this occurring more in the future as I am working on a plan myself for cattle and starting really small and working my way up.

Currently I can't justify the 4 wheel drive but I want it.

[Biker]

A truck is my family car. I'm retired and it is just the wife and me. Right now, I have a GMC Denali pickup with everything on it, including 4 wheel steering. The options are nice but it was an expensive truck. I pay for those options every time I fill up because it gets 15 mpg at best around town. I like the ability to go to the lumber yard and throw a few bags of whatever or some boards in the back without having to try to stick them in a car trunk. The 4 door model will suite me fine and enable us to load groceries in the rear seat as well as carry an occasional passenger. I also need something smaller for the Mrs. to drive. The Denali is wide enough to require clearance lights because of the 4 wheel steering. We have narrow roads where I live and the Mrs. is uncomfortable driving a wide vehicle. I think a Mahindra with all the options will fill the bill.

[koolhandlinc]

Today I placed 3 bags of tools in the back of my little Ranger. Went to the pasture and worked on the wiring and lights on 2 tractors.

Tractor 1 had a wiring connector that had gotten mud packed into it and was stuck together....... haha so I cleaned this and then found 2 of the flood lights had bad sockets and were not repairable. The head lights had both the high beams out and are a special type bulb. Also the light switch has 2 position out on it.

After checking this stuff out I went to the other field and checked the tractor there and learned the lights all function if jumped. The switch is working in at least one position. The wires are all cracked and broken.

So after learning about the lights and what will be needed I returned to the first tractor and decided the field was nearing dry enough and so I used the tractor to retieve the last of the bails. Began loading them on the trailer.

I went as far as I could without hooking up the big truck and so I ran to town and shopped for lights to use on the tractor and learned wally word is about 60% the cost on the lights I will need.

I returned to the field and waited about 45 minutes for my friend to arrive with the big truck and we pulled the trailer down the the barn and put the bais into it. Returned and put the last onto the trailed taking them to the barn as well.

The my little truck was used to shine a little light on the cutter as we were hooking it to the back of the tractor in the dark. 4 head lights and a flash light later we had the cutter on and adjusted close.

You know a 46 foot trailer with hay bails double stacked for a total of 24 bails is pretty heavy! (side by side 14 on bottom and ten on top). Not what I would use the Mahindra for all other roles except the heaviest of them.

[DREDnot]

Pics are worth a thousand words.

[willo]

I live on a farm, am a land surveyor, and ride a motorcycle. I use my truck to carry equipment and stuff for the farm, and the bike when needed. I usually use a truck cap and side access doors would be nice.

My truck gets dirty and I track mud inside it, so I don't like carpet.