figured id put a proper writeup on here now that ive run the truck through fall works and a full hay season instead of just first impressions. i run a cow calf outfit down by ada, about 120 pairs, and i put up my own hay. my old dually was a 2004 that was finally getting tired in the frame from twenty years of pasture roads and i needed something stouter to run a bale bed and still pull the gooseneck to the sale barn.
went looking and about choked on what the lots around oklahoma city wanted for a clean one ton flatbed. a fella at the coop told me he had bought a truck off jacksboroautosales.com and it came exactly as they said, so i started watching what they had.
found a 2016 Ford F-350 dually, 6.7 Powerstroke, 4x4, a steel flatbed already on it, 4.30 gears which is exactly what i wanted for pulling loaded, 104k miles. one owner truck off an oilfield outfit down in texas. price was a good bit under what the same truck was bringing up here.
called the jacksboro lot and the fella actually knew work trucks. told me the flatbed had a gooseneck ball and a bale bed already plumbed in, that the truck was never deleted and the emissions were all there, and it had a clean title and a good carfax. sent me a pile of photos and a walkaround video, cold start, under the hood, and crawled under it so i could see the frame and the driveline.
only knock, and they told me up front, was the gooseneck ball in the deck was worn from the last owners trailer and needed swapped. thirty dollar part and a socket. they knocked a little off for it anyway. that was the whole list.
i live close enough that i just drove down to jacksboro and looked at it myself. glad i did, everything was like they said on the phone. drove it around, ran the bale bed up and down, checked the deck. bought it that afternoon and drove it home.
anybody else running a flatbed off the north texas lot for ranch work? curious how theyre holding up for the rest of you.