On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:39:11 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I don't know about that. The Ranger is a tough little truck for it's size
and should handle that weight without any problems.
It uses a Mazda transmission that has been well proven.

Back when we had two horsies, a mule (which was incredibly smarter
than both the horsies put together), goats, sheep and a freakin' cow
when we were living up at the farmhouse, I had a 4 cylinder
w/automatic 4X4 Ranger - I beat the snot out of that truck hauling
hay, wood, feed, gravel, sand for bedding - you name it. On more than
one occasion (when I was still an active hunter) through the woods to
drag out a deer or a brace of resident goose.

I beat it up so bad, that at 180K miles I sold it to one of the local
farmers for $150. :)

You know that truck is still running on it's original engine and
tranny? It's 14 years old and still bouncing around pastures chasing
heifers and hauling bales of hay and silage out to the feed lots.

It's nothing but a flat bed and cab now - no fenders even the last
time I saw it, smokes like hell, but it still runs.