Your towing rigs and trailers

[Builder]

I tow a similar load with my Tahoe once in a while.

 

[LBrown59]

Here is my rig and BX24 ready to go.

Nice set up

See LB it does not take a Volvo Semi and a 53' deck over trailer to pull a BX. That little S10 Blazer and his 7K 16' landscape trailer does just fine.Chris

Sure wish I could use my perfectly good Nissan or Toyota pick ups.
You don't know how I hate to buy a bigger truck that I really dont like when I all readv have 2 pick ups that I just love.

 

[Duffster]

Sure wish I could use my perfectly good Nissan or Toyota pick ups.

Why can't you?

 

[LBrown59]

Why can't you?

Cause most ever body says A full size pick up is required.

 

[farmboy12]

Cause most ever body says A full size pick up is required.

We say that it's nice to have a full size truck, because yes it will handle and pull it better, but you can pull it with a quarter ton pickup like you have. You can get a small 12'-16' and haul one at a time nicely. Just as long as you're not towing every day.


Kyle

 

[archerm3]

Cause most ever body says A full size pick up is required.

Aw, horsecrap.

My Tacoma's got a 5500lb hitch on it, I got a 7000lb trailer, no way I'm not gonna tow a 3500 tractor or car on it because someone who has issues with their manhood telling me I need a full size.

BTW, my Taco is rated a 1/2 ton, not some 1/4 ton jeep trailer. And it handles loads WELL over what would be considered legal, safely and comfortably. I don't pretend to be Don Prudhomme on the onramps. And I would do it every day if it required, and have done many trips across the US with it towing in 200,000 miles.

 

[patrick_g]

What part am I misunderstanding? Is it horse crap to try to use manufacturer's ratings as a safety guide to what is prudent to do with the vehicle they designed and built? Manhood issues would seem to be in the providence of the folks who insist on using their equipment "out of the envelope" as some sort of macho thing.

One of the things my first instructor pilot said to me in flight training (that really stuck) was, "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are few old bold pilots.

Pat

 

[Hematite]

What part am I misunderstanding? Is it horse crap to try to use manufacturer's ratings as a safety guide to what is prudent to do with the vehicle they designed and built? Manhood issues would seem to be in the providence of the folks who insist on using their equipment "out of the envelope" as some sort of macho thing.

One of the things my first instructor pilot said to me in flight training (that really stuck) was, "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are few old bold pilots.

Pat

How true and sad, really, that there are those who endanger themselves, and most importantly others, with their ignorant attempts at winning the weekly "Darwin Award".

 

[Duffster]

What part am I misunderstanding? Is it horse crap to try to use manufacturer's ratings as a safety guide to what is prudent to do with the vehicle they designed and built? Manhood issues would seem to be in the providence of the folks who insist on using their equipment "out of the envelope" as some sort of macho thing.
Pat

How true and sad, really, that there are those who endanger themselves, and most importantly others, with their ignorant attempts at winning the weekly "Darwin Award".

I thought his comment where uncalled for but where did he imply that he was using his truck "out of the envelope" ?

 

[Builder]

I thought his comment where uncalled for but where did he imply that he was using his truck "out of the envelope" ?

Right here:

And it handles loads WELL over what would be considered legal, safely and comfortably.