Utility vehicale for hauling dirt and gravel

[sticky]

I would get the dump truck after a good hard freeze and move what ever you need to move in the morning. Half load the first run and see how it goes. One load in the dump truck will be all days work on a utv.

Get the Utv you think you will have the most fun with and don't buy it for earth moving(just tell your wife that). They will all haul small loads compared to the truck.

Your loader will move dirt as well as any utv so buy a box scraper for the back and it will counter balance the load and be a very good finishing tool. It will also help fix truck ruts.

You should be able to get a box scraper and utv of choice for 10600.

 

[mars1952]

Hi Mazurrj: For stress relief you can't beat a Ranger 6X6 and the Ranger will go places that the B3030 tractor can not. If you want to be able to haul the maximum amount of gravel get a 1 or 2 axle trailer with electric or surge brakes that will transfer some of the load to the rear wheels of the tractor. Don't get a farm wagon that has front steering wheels. Farm wagons do not transfer any weight to the tractor and take a lot of room to turn around and back up. Surge brakes work on their own but aren't much help in reverse. Electric brakes can be activated with the touch of a button and they work in reverse. Also you could get a dump trailer with electric brakes for the Ranger. The Ranger has brakes lights that could activate the trailer brakes and you could load the bed or the Ranger and the trailer.
All things considered I suggest the Ranger 6X6. You can get a lot of work done with it and have fun at the same time.
Good Luck, Marshall

thanks everyone for the replys.

Yeah that what i was sort of thinking , how much more can i haul than i can with my Kubota B3030 tractor. Sometimes the park lets me use their dump truck or they haul some close to my work site for me. Conditions have to be pretty dry though as the truck dose a lot of damage when wet or close to getting stuck. the 4wheel drive truck is not easy to get all the time.
I almost did buy a dump wagon, but the park said be best not too because of hills and would need a wagon with brakes and bigger tractor than the B3030.
Then I'm back too too much weight on trails again, plus to expensive to get bigger tractor.
At this point I'll have about 14k to invest in something. most likely it sounds like i should just get the biggest utility vehicaile and use the dump truck to get it close as possible to work site that i can and not doing so much damage or getting stuck. then use my tractor or utility???
Someone asked do i get paid, no, its my stress realease. do not have the money to buy a lot of land but like to play with this stuff outdoors, so volunteering next best thing. Plus i benifet in the winter with better wider xc-trails. We groom and track them so its pretty nice in winter.

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[mazurrj]

thanks everyone, learned a lot options and things I did not know so i can deciede best way for me to go.

 

[Bob_Young]

I'd like to thank jeffinsgf for the link to Country Manufacturing. Their dump trailers are just what I've been looking for. Ordered their 1 ton tandem axle model this morning for use on the residential property. If it works well, I'll be ordering their 2 ton model for use on the farm. There's dirt and rock to be moved and lotsa cleanup work to do.

I had to go tandem axle as I've never mastered the skill of backing up a four-wheeled wagon.
Bob

 

[jeffinsgf]

...I had to go tandem axle as I've never mastered the skill of backing up a four-wheeled wagon.
Bob

Neither have I, BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP ME!

It is a bear. I try to avoid it whenever possible. I went with the wagon style because I thought I might occasionally be filling the wagon with the tractor I was pulling it with. If I had it to do over, I think I would get the tandem axle model and a nice jack for the tongue.

Mine has received a semi-permanent modification. I use it to catch the chips from my chipper. I put a solid front and top and window screen sides on it. My little 455 can dump it at about 75% capacity -- which is more work than I care to do at one time anymore. The day I chipped that much, I could hardly move for a week.

As I was designing and building the sides, I had intentions of being able to remove the screen rig from the trailer. I could do it, but it wouldn't be as easy or quick as I wanted it to be. Is that reason enough to get another one?

 

[LBrown59]

mazurrj,

I've hauled a lot of loads of dirt in an HPX Gator. I loaded it with a Toolcat to the point it was falling off the sides. The Gator handled it fine but it wasn't that much dirt. I've also loaded the Toolcat with dirt to the point it was falling off the sides. Not a problem but it still wasn't that much dirt.

When I built my house I hauled a lot of material with a dump trailer that I pulled with an 84hp Deere. That hauled quite a bit more.

Maybe consider renting a unit for a week to see how it works. Most of the utility vehicles will haul and dump as much dirt or gravel as you can put in the dump bed but it isn't that much when compared to a dump truck.

dsb

I need to move an 18 ton pile of fill dirt on the back of my property down a hill then to the front of the property down by the road.
I could have hauled it in the BX23 loader but that meant way to many trips down a hill I didn't feel comfortable with driving down with that many buckets of dirt.

My Solution:
I bought an $89.oo Load handler for my little Dodge Ram 50 Pick Up.
And used the BX23 to load it with 3 buckets of dirt.
Hauled the dirt down front and cranked it off the truck with the load handler.
I hauled 36 loads down front in that truck with the Load handler.
Had I used the BX23 loader to haul It all down off the hill it would have taken 108 trips with the tractor VS 36 trips with the pickup.


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[AlanB]

If you want a super stout utility vehicle you might look at a hyvee OX.

Not sure on price or availability to general public, but they were built to pull and haul more then the gators that kept munching themselves.

Their Website is not up, but you can contact Laurie at 931-647-0951

 

[LBrown59]

I need to move an 18 ton pile of fill dirt on the back of my property down a hill then to the front of the property down by the road.
I could have hauled it in the BX23 loader but that meant way to many trips down a hill I didn't feel comfortable with driving down with that many buckets of dirt.

My Solution:
I bought an $89.oo Load handler for my little Dodge Ram 50 Pick Up.
And used the BX23 to load it with 3 buckets of dirt.
Hauled the dirt down front and cranked it off the truck with the load handler.
I hauled 36 loads down front in that truck with the Load handler.
Had I used the BX23 loader to haul It all down off the hill it would have taken 108 trips with the tractor VS 36 trips with the pickup.


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ADDENDUM

I put 5 miles on the pickup hauling that dirt down off the hill.
With the BX23 it would have been a 15 mile trip.

You can drive a truck 5 miles a lot quicker than you can drive a tractor 15 miles.
That Load Handler sure did speed things up.
Best 89 bucks I ever spent!

 

[TonyS]

I used Kubota RTV to move rip rap (rocks) while we covered a hill with rock, moved 80 tons in a week - but it beat the heck out of the bed.

A UTV will go places a trailer set up would find difficult but they don't hold much.