wingbone
Silver Member
I will be buying a used DK45S in a week or so and have started trying to find a used trailer for it. I had really planned on trying to go ahead find something a little bigger than a 10k trailer. I will be pulling the rig with an older, medium duty dump truck. In looking at the larger rated trailers, it looks like they make a pretty hefty jump in construction at that size which is going to be pushing me as far as the GVWR, plus, I have seen a lot more 10K trailers for sale closer to me. In estimating the weight from reading on here and the Kioti site, this looks like what I will be face with:
Tractor: 4300lbs
Tires already filled: @ 1100lbs
Loader@ 1000lbs
Eventual attachments: Bush Hog @ 700lbs(just looked up BushHog 720 weight)
Totals roughly 7500lbs.
It looks like some estimates I've seen on 20-22 foot 10K trailers is around 3000lbs so this puts me right on the weight(it seems most trailers list 10,500 capacity). Since this is right at the top of capacity and there will usually be a few miscellaneous items, can I figure in that the weight the vehicle will be carrying on the tongue will relieve some of the weight on the trailer or is this just trying to cut it too close. Obviously, I don't think it's there's going to be an exact cut off at the rating, but would it be a lot better to wait it out and find a larger trailer.
Some of those 14k trailers look really heavy themselves. Do many of you guys haul your DK45's with 10K trailers?
Tractor: 4300lbs
Tires already filled: @ 1100lbs
Loader@ 1000lbs
Eventual attachments: Bush Hog @ 700lbs(just looked up BushHog 720 weight)
Totals roughly 7500lbs.
It looks like some estimates I've seen on 20-22 foot 10K trailers is around 3000lbs so this puts me right on the weight(it seems most trailers list 10,500 capacity). Since this is right at the top of capacity and there will usually be a few miscellaneous items, can I figure in that the weight the vehicle will be carrying on the tongue will relieve some of the weight on the trailer or is this just trying to cut it too close. Obviously, I don't think it's there's going to be an exact cut off at the rating, but would it be a lot better to wait it out and find a larger trailer.
Some of those 14k trailers look really heavy themselves. Do many of you guys haul your DK45's with 10K trailers?