how much load have you comfortably put in the bed of your rtv?

[Robert_in_NY]

hey norm --

-- i just researched the devil out of those things --

i love the trailer / pump / tank idea, but it's $3200 for the 325 gall tank, plust $1500 shipping --

-- $4700 total --

-- whereas a 200 gall tank on my rtv with my handy honda pump filling from my pond is only $350, delivered --

so, there's a $4300 difference there -- quite a bit --

You can always buy a cheap trailer from TSC as well as a bigger tank (or just another tank) and be money ahead. I am sure when you are done if you want you could sell the trailer if you didn't want to keep it.

We just bought a nice farm trailer last summer. It has an old pump on it but it starts on the first pull every time. The problem with that trailer was it had an old steel tank on it that was leaking. We use 275 gallon ploy tanks in cages with valves so that tank is going to be removed this spring and replaced with one of our cube tanks. It is handy having the pump and hose mounted on the trailer so I can pull the trailer to any water source and fill up. If I am filling into a sprayer I filter but if I am just watering trees I don't worry about filtering. Of course I put one of the tanks into my F-150 and use that to drive around to the trees (275 gallons x 8 pounds per gallon = 2200 pounds so it squats the truck some).

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

hey dargo does anything look like yours in this picture????lol

i built cranes for a livin before my injury and we used to under rate them and i'm sure the utv's are the same . if they say they can haul 1k in the bed you can probably double it but then you will start to have break downs after that.the company's will always under rate thier products so that way it doesn't have breakdowns and cost them money in warranty repairs . and also it's a safety issue too so that way if they go with a much lower load amount then they know that if someone gets hurt they can alway go into court and say well when we was testing this utv we tested it at 3k in the bed but we rated it for 1k just to be on the safe side. here's abuddy's bota loaded with wet clay dirt.i'm sure it's maxed out to the requiered load according to bota but he has no truble hauling this all day long.