Your towing rigs and trailers

KenB2920 · Oct 31, 2014

debo1683 said:
Awesome! What year/motor/trans?

She's a 1986 with 6.9 idi diesel and manual transmission. Starts a little tough but seems to run strong when she's warmed up.

I'm now looking to get some new / used tires for it and hopefully drive it around.

Manual windows (I love the old vent windows too), manual locks, manual transmission... Less electronics to go bad. She does have air conditioning too which I hear is rare for this truck.

KenB2920 · Nov 1, 2014

Nightforce · Nov 1, 2014

My 1999 Dodge Dakota SLT with 92,000 miles on it...

Trailer project will get started in the spring....:thumbsup:

foreman Etexas · Nov 2, 2014

zing said:
Oops, double post, so here is a picture of me looking at my hay field. I think I see something moving in there.

I would definitely buy a cab tractor,lol.

cockeyedMFer · Nov 2, 2014

KenB2920 said:
She's a 1986 with 6.9 idi diesel and manual transmission. Starts a little tough but seems to run strong when she's warmed up.

I'm now looking to get some new / used tires for it and hopefully drive it around.

Manual windows (I love the old vent windows too), manual locks, manual transmission... Less electronics to go bad. She does have air conditioning too which I hear is rare for this truck.

Neat truck - we don't see many dually Fords with the flatbed and IDI around here. I traded for a '90 F350 box truck with the 7.3IDI and 5 speed last year and its been a great truck so far.

They have their quirks like starters, battery cables, injector lines etc but its mostly due to age. I tend to forget these trucks are 25-30 years old by now...They just keep going!

Wakey · Nov 3, 2014

It's already all the way up.

zing said:
Doesn't look way too high, just a bit like you say. May not give you issues, but goosenecks that are too high in front will usually lock up the front tires easily. Thn if you lighten up the brake controller you are not getting enough help from the trailer with stopping. Loosen the two bolts on the back of the gooseneck and shorten the shaft a bit. Goosenecks should be levelled for different height truck beds if you want to get good braking performance.

AaronS · Nov 3, 2014

foreman Etexas said:
I would definitely buy a cab tractor,lol.

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything or I would have just spit it all over my monitor.

zing · Nov 3, 2014

Wakey said:
It's already all the way up.

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Gotcha. Hard to tell sometimes with a picture. Also hard to tell in this picture how high that front axle is because it looks like the field is uneven and the truck is pointing downhill and the trailer is still going uphill. Sort of. Maybe it's not actually an issue when you are on a flat road, and just looks like one because of the picture.

Do you find that your front tires lock up easier than the rear when you have to stop quickly? That dually truck will probably not settle down much just from a couple of ponies, but still you might get better braking from the front axle if you keep the ponies in the front two stalls and keep as much weight on the tongue as possible, instead of having them at the back of the trailer with the weight balanced over the axles.

You probably already know all of this anyway, just making conversation really.

zing · Nov 3, 2014

AaronS said:
foreman Etexas said:

I would definitely buy a cab tractor,lol.

Click to expand...

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything or I would have just spit it all over my monitor.

lol, yeah that one cracked me up too. :laughing: :laughing: :thumbsup:

zing · Nov 3, 2014

Here is my field and arena towing rig. My tractor is a 2WD 77HP with loaded front and rear tires plus a loader, so really not able to go into the fields in spring or fall when they are still wet. Gets stuck too easily and even if I don't get stuck it leaves huge ruts. This setup is light enough to get around the fields in the wet season, so it lets me get out there when my tractor can't. Obviously not going to carry or tow the load of a tractor, but keeps the fields in good shape. I can put two wet 5' round bales on the trailer though and have no problems shuttling them around without causing noticeable ruts. The Teryx has a 750cc engine and will pull a reasonable load in low gear. Trailer is a 6x10 with a 2950 lb carrying capacity, so for travel I can load the Teryx on this trailer, and then when I get there I back the Teryx off, hook the trailer up to it and it is ready to work. Also use the Teryx to drag my ring since it is faster and more manouverable than the tractor. Lots of tight turning required to drag a ring when it is full of jumps, cavalettis, and trotting poles.

JESSE1 · Nov 3, 2014

2015 F-450 and '99 Fleetneck. The truck is rated for 40,000# GCWR so this wasn't much load for it.

Diamondpilot · Nov 3, 2014

Nice.

Chris

3930dave · Nov 3, 2014

JESSE1 said:
2015 F-450 and '99 Fleetneck. The truck is rated for 40,000# GCWR so this wasn't much load for it.

What Chris said :thumbsup: !

I'm pretty sure that no springs were flexed in those pics.

Rgds, D.

Wakey · Nov 4, 2014

New jumps, Zing?

zing · Nov 4, 2014

Wakey said:
New jumps, Zing?

Relatively new, I have been gradually building up what I have for a few years. Built the standards and got the poles 4 years ago, and used tehm unpainted for a year to let the PT chemicals dry out some. Primed and painted them 3 years ago, and built some cavalettis that year. Last two years have been building things like boxes, flower jumps, shrub and flower pots, etc so that the horses would not be surprised to see that type of stuff when they get to a show. Kind of defeats the point to just jump poles in practice, and then have the horse refuse at the show because it is not used to all of the extras that they see there. This year I had someone give me his old outdoor carpet when he re-did his pool deck, so I built a couple of roll-top style jumps. The poles take the brunt of the beating though, so most of the stuff still looks pretty new.

terryknight · Nov 5, 2014

terryknight · Nov 5, 2014

piercedtiger · Nov 5, 2014

2006 Toyota Tacoma 4.0 V6, 130,000 miles. Plate steel bumpers front and rear, rebuilt factory springs in the rear.

Trailer is a 10 ft Carry-On from tractor supply. It was on sale $300 off, and is enough to tow the GC2600 around for doing gardens and other small jobs or wood pellets. It's a bit short to fit the tractor on with loader AND tiller, but I'm having a co-workers husband extend the tongue 2 ft. He'll remove the coupler and jack, cut a slot down the middle, and weld in a 3"x4"x8' 3/8" thick piece of box tube down the middle. Re-attach the coupler and jack, weld a plate under the trailer to bridge a couple rubs to support the new beam, and then I'll have clearance to turn with the FEL over the front rail of the trailer. As it sits now, doing that would probably cause the tailgate or bumper to hit the bucket going around corners. We was going to charge $250 for the steel and work, but that might come down $100 since he needs me to clean a virus off his computer.

Thinking about putting a tool box across the tongue to hold ratchet straps, wheel blocks, etc and to set the bucket on.