4 sand bags of 60lb each behind the wheel wells. Then i just used the anchors in the bed and a cargo strap to keep it all in one place. after a while it all gets frozen there anyways

 

Back when in my '95 2 wheel drive I'd put 2 4x8 sheets of 3/4" MDF in the bed. One sheet alone is about 60lbs and when it gets wet the weight doubles. You need to have 2 people handle the sheets when wet. They get that heavy.

The nice thing is they wont take up room in the bed like sand bags just 1 1/2" of height. Think of it as a wood bed mat.

With studded snow tires I never got stuck unless I was driving stupid.

 

I used to toss in 2 old semi tires, it took up a lot of room, but was an easy couple hundred pounds. Now I just put 2 cat rollers in the front for about 450lbs of weight.

 

I stand up 6 cinder blocks in the back of the bed side by side. I wrap a ratchet strap around them to hold them together and then run a ratchet strap through the top holes and anchor the strap to the little hooks inside the back of the bed. I already had the blocks. Each block weighs around 50 lbs and they don't get eaten by the sun and break apart like sand bags do.

 

I've never added anything to the back of mine. And I've never had a problem. So I probably never will. But one of my neighbors got a piece of 1/4" or 1/2" metal plate cut to fit between the fenders in the box, and that weighs about 400-500 lbs. But they also have a skid steer loader to put it in. lol.

 

that's moderately hard core! I wonder how they load that bad boy lol

 

I either shovel it full of snow or load it with fire wood. Good thing about the snow.... it unloads itself!

 

my dad does the same, two 1/4" steel plates that fit between the wheel wells, but they're in two pieces so they're alot eaiser to move, idk where he got them, had them 4 ever and i know he didnt pay for them, probly used them on a jobsite at one point in time

 

I just bought my '08 FX4 Supercab last Saturday. We got about a 1/2" on the road and that thing was all over the place in 2wd. I like to avoid using 4wd unless really necessary because it sucks the gas (I didn't think it was necessary today, evidently it was). So I went to Lowe's and bought six 60# bags of sand mentioned previously and put them between the wheel wells. It really didn't help a whole lot. Might up it to 500# and use 4wd more often. I was driving home at about 50mph on what I thought were wet roads, hit some black ice I guess and went fishtailing back and forth across the road a few times until I gained control. I about peed myself. Just lucky nobody was in the other lane or I would have hit them head on. I guess I was spoiled having Auto 4wd in my Explorer Sport. Love the truck otherwise though.

 

but most importantly though, you came out with dry pants seriously though glad you came out all right, I fishtailed a couple times myself a couple times when we first got this snow. this is my first time truckin it in the winter, I'm used to my civic lol where is sycamore with relation to springfield?