Truck vs Tractor TOW

[DmansPadge]

Of coarse everything will depend on the conditions. I will say though... just a few weeks back I stuck my little Kubota B7410. Equipped the way it was that day it only weighs in around 1800 lbs. I figured... no problem.. I'll hook my 2wd truck up to it and pull her on out. But that didn't happen.... I actually couldn't budge the tractor with my truck... I was a little surprised. Went to my neighbors and got his little Mahindra 2015 and it pulled it right out. The word tractor didn't derive from the words "traction engine" for nothing!!

 

[jimainiac]

LD1, how do you get two transfer cases in a pickup?

 

[Wombat125]

LD1, how do you get two transfer cases in a pickup?

That's an old trick for Toyota pickups. With a little adapter kit, you can take the gear reduction slice of one tcase and graft it to a second complete tcase. You get lots of levers poking through your tranny tunnel and lots of gear reduction options.

See Marlin Crawler

 

[LD1]

The truck came with a std transmission and a 205 (all gear) t-case. I just happened to have a rebuilt 727 and 203 combo out of a 79 dodge with a locked up motor laying around. I did some reading online and learned that it is pretty common to take the front part of the 203 (the gear reduction unit) and with proper adapters connect it to the 205 t-case. You can actuall buy the kits that come with the resplined input shaft for the 205 and the adapter to mate them but it was really expensive. I think they call them Doublers. So I took the two gaskets (for bolt pattern reference) to my cousin who works at a machine shop and had him make the adapter and I sent the shaft to moser axles to have it turned down to the correct diameter and resplined. It really suprised me that it only cost $85 to turn and respline the shaft.

Also had to shorten the rear driveshaft and lengthen the front. I also added one more crossmember to carry the extra weight.

It was a lot of work but it was worth it. The truck isn't the most reliable and never driven on the road, just for hauling/pulling wood, and for play.

 

[hosejockey2002]

Several years ago I got an F250 with stock tires stuck in a pumpkin field. The guy who ran the field had an F250 4x4 with large off-road tires, and an old 2wd Farmall gas tractor, not sure how big but probably 40 hp or so. When he pulled me out I assumed he would take the truck, but he said if he did that then we would just have two stuck trucks. That old Farmall pulled me out without spinning a wheel.

 

[ridefst]

From personal observation, I can tell you that on dry packed dirt a 1 ton chevy diesel SRW 4wd can outpull a 120HP Deutz-Allis until the tractor operator hits the push button 4wd. Then the chevy drops an axle.
Fortunately not my truck, (or tractor for that matter)

 

[Renze]

From personal observation, I can tell you that on dry packed dirt a 1 ton chevy diesel SRW 4wd can outpull a 120HP Deutz-Allis until the tractor operator hits the push button 4wd. Then the chevy drops an axle.
Fortunately not my truck, (or tractor for that matter)

I find it kinda funny how a less than 3 ton weighing truck, could pull off a tractor that has more than 4 ton on the rear axle...

 

[JSharp]

And spoil all the fun. No smoke, no loud belching engines, no engine parts flying around??

Me, I don't understand the intrigue with tractor pulls etc.

Those open class multi engine tractors are mostly noise and show.

I was a a tractor pull a few years ago and during the hot rod tractor competition the sled stuck all the way forward. They unhooked the multi engine hot rod and hooked a stock Cat Challenger to the sled.

The Cat pulled the sled off the track like it wasn't even loaded...

 

[ampsucker]

how you pull those sleds makes all the difference. the one and only tractor pull i've been to, it was funny to watch the souped up big boys try to pull the loaded sled forward. then, a little ford two wheel drive with front loader would sneak around back and pull it backwards pretty as you please to get set for the next heat.

amp

 

[ridefst]

I find it kinda funny how a less than 3 ton weighing truck, could pull off a tractor that has more than 4 ton on the rear axle...

I think it's mostly that hard pack dirt is a lot better for truck tires than the tractor tires; nothing for the bars to dig into. Given softer dirt, where the tractor could dig it better, I'm sure the truck wouldn't stand a chance.
However, before seeing it myself, I sure wouldn't have bet on the truck either...