Your towing rigs and trailers

[Dmace]

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Nice setup TLM!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Nice. That is a beautiful rig.

Chris

 

[Breacher 217]

I just sold this 28' enclosed and bought a Featherlite.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Nice.

Chris

 

[mickeyw]

Here's an English take on a towing rig.
We have much smaller roads here, and a lot less space, so I guess this looks a bit small to some of you.

2006 Landrover Defender 110, 2.5 litre 5-cyl turbo diesel.
Trailer is an ancient Ifor Williams flat bed with homemade drop sides and hay ladders. The deck is 12' x 6'6". Max laden weight is 3500kg.
Maximum legal towing weight for this kind of vehicle in the UK is 3500kg, and the Defender is rated to tow all of that

 

[Diamondpilot]

Neat to see how its done over the pond.

Chris

 

[Dmace]

Here's an English take on a towing rig.
We have much smaller roads here, and a lot less space, so I guess this looks a bit small to some of you.

2006 Landrover Defender 110, 2.5 litre 5-cyl turbo diesel.
Trailer is an ancient Ifor Williams flat bed with homemade drop sides and hay ladders. The deck is 12' x 6'6". Max laden weight is 3500kg.
Maximum legal towing weight for this kind of vehicle in the UK is 3500kg, and the Defender is rated to tow all of that

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Good looking rig, reminds me of a Jeep Commander nice big SUV without being huge, plus a big powerful V8 and 7,500 lb tow capacity which is rigt around your 3500 kg (7700 lb) rating.
Buddy of mine tows his Wrangler with one.

 

[bindian]

Thank y'all for the compliments. The truck is a 2012 3500 longhorn. 4.10 gears made a huge difference over my 2011 with 3.73s. I have the truck set up just like I like it and wouldn't change anything except for the fuel mileage. I deleted it and while it improved some its still horrible. Trailer is a 25+5 with 10k axles. In hind sight I wish I had gotten the st package with the rubber floors but momma liked this one!

Brett

Brett,
What make and model is that excavator?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Duffster]

Thats partially true, you are going to have restrictions on your license if you don't take it in a vehicle with air brakes.

It's completely and wholly true. Some don't need air brakes so that restriction wouldn't matter. Some who take their A test already have air brakes on their license.

I also should have clarified, my skid steer trailer is a 10k tandem axle trailer

Ya that isn't big enough to get a class A with.

 

[DavesTractor]

In California, pulling a 10,001 GVWR or larger equipment trailer requires a CDL even if pulling with a regular pickup. So a typical 14k tandem gooseneck dump trailer puts you into a CDL to tow it legally, even if the combo isn't over 26k or rated over 26k. And yes you can take your CDL test in a pickup with that trailer, but as mentioned you will be restricted to non-air brakes so the CDL becomes pretty limiting.

I know this differs in other states.