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LBrown59
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- 2003 Kubota BX1500/2004 Kubota Bx23/2005 Kubota BX1500
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> You could but i don't Want to shovel it off. </font> Me, neither.
Step 1. Trailer load of limestone. What to do? Step 2. Use the tractor, not a shovel.
Step 3. How's that? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Step 4. Use the tractor, not a wheelbarrow.
Step 5. Drive the lightweight tractor over the lawn, not a heavy truck or trailer. Place the material exactly where you want it.This method has several advantages...One. The trailer can haul 5500 pounds of material. The pickup truck cannot.Two. I cannot load it out of the truck. I have to dump it on my driveway or the lawn, then pick it up again with the FEL, then clean up the mess afterward. The only mess I have to clean up with this method is sweep the trailer into the FEL bucket.Three. I can't use a truck for precise placement of material. The FEL works much better and the tractor is easier on the lawn than any truck.
Four. License plates for the trailer are $57.00 a year(including our brand new wheel tax /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif). Liability insurance is free as it is covered by the tow vehicle's insurance, however, I buy extra insurance to cover the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself, just for peace of mind.
To summarize:
The overall cost of owning our trailer is much cheaper than the overall cost of owning our truck. It can haul more than our pickup truck, is easier to load and unload than our pickup truck and we have one less engine to maintain. We have retired our pickup truck and it is slowly rusting away behind the garage. We are now down to two vehicles, a car and a van. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )</font>
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Thanks for the post:
You've almost convinced me to go out and get a trailer.
Now which trailer?
Dump
Tilt
Ramp
Flat on ground
The only thing I'm not real keen on is running up and down the ramps with the tractor to unload the trailer.
Step 1. Trailer load of limestone. What to do? Step 2. Use the tractor, not a shovel.
Step 3. How's that? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Step 4. Use the tractor, not a wheelbarrow.
Step 5. Drive the lightweight tractor over the lawn, not a heavy truck or trailer. Place the material exactly where you want it.This method has several advantages...One. The trailer can haul 5500 pounds of material. The pickup truck cannot.Two. I cannot load it out of the truck. I have to dump it on my driveway or the lawn, then pick it up again with the FEL, then clean up the mess afterward. The only mess I have to clean up with this method is sweep the trailer into the FEL bucket.Three. I can't use a truck for precise placement of material. The FEL works much better and the tractor is easier on the lawn than any truck.
Four. License plates for the trailer are $57.00 a year(including our brand new wheel tax /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif). Liability insurance is free as it is covered by the tow vehicle's insurance, however, I buy extra insurance to cover the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself, just for peace of mind.
To summarize:
The overall cost of owning our trailer is much cheaper than the overall cost of owning our truck. It can haul more than our pickup truck, is easier to load and unload than our pickup truck and we have one less engine to maintain. We have retired our pickup truck and it is slowly rusting away behind the garage. We are now down to two vehicles, a car and a van. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )</font>
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Thanks for the post:
You've almost convinced me to go out and get a trailer.
Now which trailer?
Dump
Tilt
Ramp
Flat on ground
The only thing I'm not real keen on is running up and down the ramps with the tractor to unload the trailer.