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A lot of firewood. It's been about 4 months since I last hauled out a load and it was half of what's here now; and that fire burned so hot we had to stand about 40 feet away until it burned down.
Yup, 32 in each stack, at least as far as the first four go. The last four probably had 35-40. I really should have thrown a strap or two across the front and tied the mattresses down to the front rail.
I thought about the U-haul, but they have surge brakes and I'm not a fan of those whatsoever! Especially since the brakes on these trucks are garbage, I'm weary about even a half full U-haul trailer pushing my truck around.
Yep, good point on the brakes! I usually use my Excursion to pull the U-Haul and it has decent brakes on it, and our 2002 Suburban did well but we gave it to our daughter.
I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but trying to help understand the weight you have in pallets so you can accurately address what your issues are and what steps need to be taken to resolve them since you mentioned quite a few good upgrades. I've hauled quite a few pallets before and 32 pallets would be much higher than what you have pictured. A standard pallet is 6.5" thick, so 32 of them would be over 17' high not including deck height of your trailer. 20 pallets is close to 22' high. For reference, a semi truck is only 13.5' tall total. Your weight estimate of around 40 pounds each is accurate. So if you had 4 stacks of 16, and 4 stacks of 20 (which is a high estimate), then x 40 pounds for each pallet it's about 5,760 pounds. Depending on the speed you were driving, wind resistance could be really difficult to overcome and would add a tremendous load to the truck.