Pulling a 6x10 trailer with a BX1500

[jbordwine]

Is a BX1500 capable of pulling a 6x10 trailer loaded down with brush and small logs without damaging anything? The trailer is not too heavy and has a 3500# axle but is much beefier than your typical lumberyard special. I've pulled a small 4x6 with my BX1500 the 6x10 seems quite heavier.

 

[Bowhunter]

Does the trailer and brush look like my attachment? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I cleared brush around the yard a few years ago with an identical trailer. My atv pulled the load with no problem at all, and the atv is lighter with less hp. I'd think the BX would handle it like a pro.

 

[deminin]

If you go slow and use low range, and don't have any fairly steep grades to go up/down over, you should be ok. I few weeks ago, I pulled a 16' tandem axle trailer loaded down with oak logs about a mile with my B2910. I was WAAAY over the recommended towing limits....probably 8 to 10 thousand pounds....but using low range, RPM's at 1800, and easing along at about 2MPH, it did just fine.

 

[Junkman]

It isn't the pulling that you have to be concerned with, it is the stopping. If you are going to be on flat ground, there should be no problem if the load is light. If you start to traverse a incline or sloped ground, it can become problematic quickly with a heavy load. Even if the tractor wheels stop turning, the weight of the trailer might just be enough to push the tractor even thought the wheels are stopped. If the trailer were to start going sideways, there is no way that you could control it. I have seen trucks pulling trailers that were pushed through intersections because the trailer over powered the truck. That is why brakes are required on trailers over a certain weight/size. Make more trips, but you are going to be safer in the end.

 

[Botabill]

I have a BX 1800 and I haul my 8 X 5 landscape trailer loaded to the hilt with heavy stuff up and down hills. I haul the trailer full to overflowing from a horse farm filled with manure from 3 miles away on a regular basis. I dragged it home full of maple logs that were up to 4 feet across several times and it didn't even breath hard. When Teheran trailer was too full I picked up a load in the FEL as well. I would think the 1500 would do OK with what you want.

 

[Pks]

As others have pointed out, stopping can be greatly reduced. Two other things are also important.

1) use 4x4 mode when stopping. This will provide more tire gripping area increasing the effectiveness of the brakes. The same rule is applied when going down hills without a trailer.

2) reduce the trailer's momentum to near zero before turning corners. If the trailer has too much momentum when turning a corner, while the tractor is turning, the trailer can push straight forward which can flip the tractor onto its side or top.