542 loader weight

[unreconstructed]

Am about to pickup my 5325 this week I hope. At any rate I am trying to figure out
my load. The 5325 specs are posted and I thought I could find anything on JD site, but could not find out the total weight for the 542 loader--just the bucket.

Also am getting the tires filled and really don't have any idea how many gallons so I can add that to the weight.

Think i am really pushing my limit on my 12000 pound Big Tex and F 350 which is rated at 12,500.

Any help you fellas could give me is appreciated.

 

[ddivinia]

Am about to pickup my 5325 this week I hope. At any rate I am trying to figure out
my load. The 5325 specs are posted and I thought I could find anything on JD site, but could not find out the total weight for the 542 loader--just the bucket.

Also am getting the tires filled and really don't have any idea how many gallons so I can add that to the weight.

Think i am really pushing my limit on my 12000 pound Big Tex and F 350 which is rated at 12,500.

Any help you fellas could give me is appreciated.

I think you are good to go. I have e Big Tex 12gp and I haul my 5525 with 542 on it.

542 page:

John Deere Ag - New Equipment Features for 542 Loader

No weight listed,
D.

 

[unreconstructed]

thanks. I did find those specs with the bucket weight. Am also wanting to buy a Bush Hog rear blade, 9 foot, with tailwheel, 3 hydraulic cylinders. Salesman looked it up and its about 1500 pounds. The 5325, 542, and that blade won't fit on my 20 foot bumper pull. Will want to trailer this rig and blade, after I get moved, from Menard county to Dawson county, about 220 miles one way, three or four times a year. So am trying to get the weight figured out.

Been thinking about getting a 24 foot trailer, don't want a gooseneck because I just about fill up the back of my truck with other tools, herbicide, you name it when I make that trip.

Oughta sell the place in Dawson county but it has been in the family since 32. Guess I will hang on to it until I get too old to make those trips or it just gets too expensive. Too much romance with a piece of land.

thanks again for the heads up.

 

[dgl24087]

Am about to pickup my 5325 this week I hope. At any rate I am trying to figure out
my load. The 5325 specs are posted and I thought I could find anything on JD site, but could not find out the total weight for the 542 loader--just the bucket.

Also am getting the tires filled and really don't have any idea how many gallons so I can add that to the weight.

Think i am really pushing my limit on my 12000 pound Big Tex and F 350 which is rated at 12,500.

Any help you fellas could give me is appreciated.

Here's a link to Rimguard's site, gives fluid weights for many sizes of tires http://www.rimguard.biz/Documentation/HydroFlationTable_AGTires.pdf

 

[ddivinia]

thanks. I did find those specs with the bucket weight. Am also wanting to buy a Bush Hog rear blade, 9 foot, with tailwheel, 3 hydraulic cylinders. Salesman looked it up and its about 1500 pounds. The 5325, 542, and that blade won't fit on my 20 foot bumper pull. Will want to trailer this rig and blade, after I get moved, from Menard county to Dawson county, about 220 miles one way, three or four times a year. So am trying to get the weight figured out.

Been thinking about getting a 24 foot trailer, don't want a gooseneck because I just about fill up the back of my truck with other tools, herbicide, you name it when I make that trip.

Oughta sell the place in Dawson county but it has been in the family since 32. Guess I will hang on to it until I get too old to make those trips or it just gets too expensive. Too much romance with a piece of land.

thanks again for the heads up.

20' aint going to cut it. Even 24' might be tight.

Isn't it amazing the love-hate relationship we have with things?

D.

 

[unreconstructed]

Roger that D. Am going to pick up my 5325 at Frederickburg (Texas) tomorrow. Will measure the Bush Hog with the tail wheel. I am thinking like you the 24 foot will be tight.
Might have to do some nonsense like take the tail wheel off and put it in the back of the truck with the FEL. We will see. For sure the 20 footer is out. Problem is, I can see myself happily grading that 1/4 mile road out at the Dawson County place and the one mile road in Menard.

One things for sure. This 5325 has got to do me--trying to semi retire and just can't keep buying more and better toys. The 5203 was a great starter tractor for me--the first I have fooled with since I left the farm as a kid in '68. But I have managed to find more uses for
the tractors that the 5203 won't take care of.

 

[ddivinia]

Roger that D. Am going to pick up my 5325 at Frederickburg (Texas) tomorrow. Will measure the Bush Hog with the tail wheel. I am thinking like you the 24 foot will be tight.
Might have to do some nonsense like take the tail wheel off and put it in the back of the truck with the FEL. We will see. For sure the 20 footer is out. Problem is, I can see myself happily grading that 1/4 mile road out at the Dawson County place and the one mile road in Menard.

One things for sure. This 5325 has got to do me--trying to semi retire and just can't keep buying more and better toys. The 5203 was a great starter tractor for me--the first I have fooled with since I left the farm as a kid in '68. But I have managed to find more uses for
the tractors that the 5203 won't take care of.

FEL in the back of the truck?

Ready for hunting out in Menard?

I suspect this tractor will last you a long time.

Here is a pic of my 5525 when I brought it home on a 24' trailer to put things in perspective.

D.

 

[unreconstructed]

I did not word that well. Use the FEL to load the tail wheel in the back of the truck. That make more sense?

Thanks much for that pic. That does indeed put it in perspective. I will know tomorrow for sure what I am looking at.

Nice looking place you have there. Trying to remember where Red Oak is.

Acutally I don't hunt much at all. we are trying to get semi retired to the place at Menard. Have lived in the permian basin or on the Texas cap in cotton country all my life. Am ready for some trees with no sand storms. Gonna miss those mornings though--at 3200 feet they are nice and cool.

 

[ddivinia]

I did not word that well. Use the FEL to load the tail wheel in the back of the truck. That make more sense?

Thanks much for that pic. That does indeed put it in perspective. I will know tomorrow for sure what I am looking at.

Nice looking place you have there. Trying to remember where Red Oak is.

Acutally I don't hunt much at all. we are trying to get semi retired to the place at Menard. Have lived in the permian basin or on the Texas cap in cotton country all my life. Am ready for some trees with no sand storms. Gonna miss those mornings though--at 3200 feet they are nice and cool.

Not sure i would mess with taking the tail wheel off. Maybe put the blade in the back of the truck. Let the rear of the mower hang off the back with a red flag on it maybe.

Red Oak - just south of Dallas in Northern Ellis County. They hand out a lot of tickets on I-35...

I could use some cool right now myself.

D.

 

[Dargo]

I haul a very similar load and if I have my bush hog on the back and loader on the tractor it takes up most of the 30' I have available on my trailer. If you load the tires on the tractor, have a heavy implement on the back (my hog weighs about 1300 pounds or so) and the 542 with a decent sized bucket, you'd likely be way over the limit on a 12k trailer. Remember, you have to subtract the weight of the actual trailer itself from that weight hauling capacity. Uh, I did forget if you are getting the cab model or not; I assumed for some reason that you are.

With the set of loaded tires on my tractor, the FEL and 84" HD Worksite bucket and bush hog on the back and me in the tractor I crossed the scales at about 11,500 pounds. My trailer itself weighs just under 6100 pounds. Based on those facts, I'd be about 4000 pounds over weight on a 12k trailer; assuming the 12k trailer weighs about 4500 pounds. And, from past experience, I most definitely do not like hauling a trailer that is loaded at it's absolute max capacity or over that capacity. For what it's worth, based on what I've read, I think you have a whole lot more tractor than you have trailer.

 

[tjkadar]

I'll second letting the tail wheel hang off and putting a red flag on it. The easy way is hard enough. As long as the load will let everything trailer safely, let it hang!

 

[unreconstructed]

The Bush Hog is a Bush Hog blade, won't be trailering a mower. Actually have an MX 6 at both places. The blade according to the dealer is 1500 pounds. Have already given up on buying it at this time.

No cab. Ship weight of the 5325 per JD site is at 6000 pounds. Another poster in another thread set me a chart for the filled tires. Have not looked that up yet. Have not been able to find a weight on the loader. Has a 73 inch bucket which according to JD is 381 pounds. Have to go dig up the weight on the Big Tex. Is not 6000 pounds I am sure.

So you are correct. I am pushing the envelope.

Tow capacity for the F350 according to Ford is 12,500.

Thank you for your posts.

 

[unreconstructed]

according to big tex spec the 12PI trailer is 2,630 pounds. According to the chart I have, loaded tires another 1500 pounds. If everything that is published is correct I am up to 10130 with the trailer and don't have a clue what the 542 weighs.

Ugh.

 

[Dargo]

Now this is just based on moving the loader around, not actually weighing it, but I'd have to estimate the loader (without any bucket) at about 1000 to 1200 pounds. Again, this is no true weight based on anything other than how it feels moving it with another FEL tractor that has about a 1200 pound lift capacity. With that tractor I could only get it a foot or two off the ground and it just wouldn't lift it anymore. Sorry I couldn't be more precise with the weight estimation, but I don't think I'm too far off. (not nearly as far off as I estimated your trailer weight )

 

[ddivinia]

That is one of the reasons I have not loaded my tires. I am close to the limit on my setup.

D.

 

[wkpoor]

I have a 520 loader on a 5400. I have estimated my loader weight with bucket at 1500lbs. I know the tractor with loaded tired weighs 7500lbs without a bucket attached. I'm hauling it on a 14K trailer that weighs 4300lbs empty. I figure with one implement I'll be bumping the limit. I would guess a 12K will be a bit over loaded but if your not going far and go slow you'll be alright. I've towed 7,000lb trailers before that weight 10,000lbs several times. It was probably Russian rulet but I never broke an axle.

 

[unreconstructed]

I picked up the 5325 yesterday. Of course the Bush Hog rear blade, which was 10 feet long with tail wheel, did not make the trip back home. At any rate, the load balanced well and trailered just fine. I forgot to measure and see how much room was left on the back of the trailer, but I had a pretty full load with the 542 loader. thanks for your comments.