Big Hours on a Mule

[jinman]

Sorry. What I mean is he took the rear axle of the quad and put bed on top of it. He then put a ball coupling on the front of it and pulls it with another quad bike. The engine was knackered and so was the front axle so it was not worth doing anything else with it.

Now I understand that you really do mean he made a trailer of it. I guess I didn't understand the term "knackered" to mean that the engine was no good. That's probably the same as if I said the engine was "hosed" in U.S. English.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

A friend has a Mule with over 1200 hours, it's about ten years old, can't kill it.

Harvey

We have a big mule with about 1600hrs on it. Other than hard cold starts, it runs great.

 

[john_bud]

2003 Mule 3010 gas. Only about 250 hours. It hauls a 5x10 trailer with supplies for the tree farm. 1.75 miles from the end of the gravel road to the close corner of the property. It has pulled well over 2000# on that trailer thru creek bottoms, mud holes, ruts and bumps up hills and down. No complaints. Worst thing ever happened was a tree that was partly shredded popped up when backing and cut the coolant hose. Made a temporary fix with plumbing elbows and the un-damaged parts of the original hose. That was in 2003. The permanent replacement hose is in the glove box, untouched since a week after the incident. Oh, the gasket on top of the fuel tank is starting to leak. Will have to fix that, don't like stray gas fumes!

jb

 

[Podunkadunk]

Now I understand that you really do mean he made a trailer of it. I guess I didn't understand the term "knackered" to mean that the engine was no good. That's probably the same as if I said the engine was "hosed" in U.S. English.

"Hosed"...as in "all hosed up". LOL. I haven't heard that in a few years. That's the Navy coming out in you.

Podunk