Mules are slightly smaller than their horse parent, and when they grow they share traits of both a donkey (the long ears), and the horse (color, tail, etc.). A Mule in the grass.
For example, a 2014 Ford F-150 is considered a half ton truck but most variants can carry a lot more than 1,000 pounds in the bed. Since these terms are probably not going away any time soon, it's best just to think of them as smaller, mediumest, and more than medium.. (Pause for laughter).
Re: O/T-What does 1/4 ton, 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton mean? Way back when, before the crust cooled, the lightest pickup trucks had a carrying capacity of around 1,000 pounds.he 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton designations have stuck around in popular use, even though manufacturers don't refer to them that way, and a typical 1/2 ton can carry in the neighborhood of 2,000 pounds of payload.