TRUCK AND TRAILER TEAM.

[wkpoor]

I think Fred's talking about my previous post (#17). I only stated what the manufacturers recommended tow ratings were a few years ago. Any idiot / person with a pickup can hook up to a 20K loaded trailer or put 4K into a pickup bed if they choose to do so and the truck will probably pull it although stopping may be a problem. I just don't want to be around them on the road. I have a neighbor who regularly hauls a 18K excavator on a 20K goose neck with a 1T dually. I estimate his loaded trailer weighs about 24-25K and is well above what his truck is rated for. That doesn't make it legal or safe. My posts are only to assist the poster (LB) in choosing the right vehicle and trailer for what he wants to do and be legal. I have a 2500HD with Duramax / Allison that is rated for towing 15,800. I know the truck could easily tow 25K but I won't do it. Have I ever exceeded my rated capacity? Sure I have. I think everyone who owns a pickup has exceeded its rated capacity at one time or another whether they realize it or not, it just doesn't make it legal.

I have mentioned this before. Go to any truck and tractor pull and see what comes in pulling what. A whole bunch of 1T and 3/4T trucks pulling tandem dully goosenecks. You tell me?

 

[farmboy12]

I have mentioned this before. Go to any truck and tractor pull and see what comes in pulling what. A whole bunch of 1T and 3/4T trucks pulling tandem dully goosenecks. You tell me?

Not always just that...a lot of the time there's teams with one or more "big trucks" instead of running all over [place area here] in a pickup.


Kyle

 

[JohnDeere4300]

1*I understand this but how would you load something like this little building that is wider than the space between your fenders?

Had I had a trailer like I'm talking about back in Nov. when I bought this building I could have hauled it myself and saved the 150 i paid to have this truck deliver it.

LB.

I hauled a 12x12 building a mile-1/2 and won't haul another one because it was so top heavy. We jacked up the building and backed the trailer under it, then i had to buy 6x6 timbers and stacked them so the building would be above the fenders.

Sorry to hear about your brother.
When did it happen?

This happened on Wednesday the 11th- last week.

 

[farmboy12]

1*I understand this but how would you load something like this little building that is wider than the space between your fenders?

Had I had a trailer like I'm talking about back in Nov. when I bought this building I could have hauled it myself and saved the 150 i paid to have this truck deliver it.

LB-

Just realized, your dates on that camera are 4 years and 9 months off...


Kyle

 

[LBrown59]

LB-

Just realized, your dates on that camera are 4 years and 9 months off...


Kyle

Yeah I don't know what happened but I could not correct it after the picture was taken.

 

[LBrown59]

LB.

I hauled a 12x12 building a mile-1/2 and won't haul another one because it was so top heavy. We jacked up the building and backed the trailer under it, then
** i had to buy 6x6 timbers and stacked them so the building would be above the fenders.





*This happened on Wednesday the 11th- last week.

*Real sorry to hear about this.

**Which probably didn't didn't help any with the top heaviness.
That's why I was thinking Deck over rather than between fenders.

 

[LBrown59]

I'm beginning to get the feeling that finding the desired combination of truck , trailer and tractor that will complement each other by all working together is going to be more difficult than it was to select the proper tractor and attachments that met my needs.

 

[J_J]

There is just to much stuff out there., and the choices we have to make.

 

[LBrown59]

I think it's to many wrong choices and not enough of the right choices complicating the matter.

There is just to much stuff out there., and the choices we have to make.

 

[J_J]

I think it's to many wrong choices and not enough of the right choices complicating the matter.

Does anyone make a deck-over with the back half tilt down?