My son and I picked up a yard of mulch today and I can't believe how nice the ride was after it was loaded. It felt like a Cadillac. I drove it home because it was it's first run with a load. I might go for a yard and a half next trip. On an even more positive note, the guy at the mulch/gravel/rock yard offered my son a job since he drove up in a manual transmission and all of his equipment is a stickshift and he can't find any cheap labor that can drive it..
Nice! Yeah, I've taught one of my daughters to drive stick by letting her scoot around the farm in 4-low.