Your towing rigs and trailers

[94BULLITT]

Finally found me a truck to haul my tractor around with. Now I just need to score a trailer. Pic below was day two of ownership. I've had it about a month now.

I'm looking at a 14k 18' Sure-Trac to latch on the rear. Overkill for the truck, but I'd prefer something that will last.

Nice truck. I would go with a 20' trailer.

 

[LA Confederate]

You'll love pulling with the Boost. Did you get the 2.7 or 3.5? 20' is a good length trailer and is what I'm shooting for when I upgrade if I don't trade up to a 3/4 ton. Right now I have a '14 Supercrew F150 with the EcoBoost and love it even more now that I put a tuner on it. I haul my tractor on a dinky 14' utility trailer and hate it but the truck pulls and stops it like its not even there.

 

[Sysop]

I got the 3.5EB. I've already towed a couple cars with it and it pulls great. I'd like a 20' trailer, but 20' is a little to big for my storage scenario. I currently borrow my brother in law's 18' trailer when I need to do something now, and it is less than a foot from being too long to fit it where I'll store mine. 20' simply wouldn't work for me without additional changes.

 

[vsteel]

Does the 12 stand for 12,000 lbs?

Just curious. I see it has 8 lug wheels generalizing it would be 7,000 lb axles or 14,000 lb gross weight. Unless of course they put lower rated tires on it making it 12k or they do it for your state for commercial weight purposes.
For or all I know the 12 stands for the twelfth addition and nothing to do with weight. Oh well. Just what I noticed and curiosity got the best of me.

The 12 does stand for 12,000 lbs gross weight, though I believe it does have 7K axles under it. The pickup has a GCWR of just over 20K and the most it can tow is a little over 12K. I did a lot of looking to see what was legal to tow and it depended a lot on where you where on how strict they are. If I would have got a 14K trailer it could have been seen as overweight, which gets me they can ticket based on what is possible to tow not what you are loaded to. I figured to just play it safe so the vehicle rating, trailer rating and plates are all at the 20K. Heaviest thing I have had on it was 6000lbs.

Just for the record the 12ET is 12K lbs Equipment Trailer.

 

[RDrancher]

2015 RAM 2500 4x4 Big Horn. 6" lift, 22" rims wrapped in 37x13.5 rubber, Hellwig rear assist airbags. JP 30' gooseneck.

Looks like you have a matching lift on your trailer as well.

 

[bryanduke]

Looks like you have a matching lift on your trailer as well.

I have lifted the trailer by about 5 inches. I just added a new set of spring seats and moved the axles to the bottom of the springs. Sets pretty level that way. 99% of what I haul is loaded and unloaded by a tractor or fork lift. I just have to pay more attention since the center of gravity had been raised.

 

[dodge man]

2010 2500 Mega cab, manual trans with 3.73 gearing. Big Tex 12ET trailer. 1969 Roadrunner, unrestored survivor. Pretty much stock all the way around.


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I'm in love with both vehicles in the pics, very nice. The Road Runner a 383? How about more details? I owned a restored 70 Road Runner, 440+6 for several years.

 

[vsteel]

I'm in love with both vehicles in the pics, very nice. The Road Runner a 383? How about more details? I owned a restored 70 Road Runner, 440+6 for several years.

Yes 383, it was owned by my father, when he got it there was only the 383 and 426 option, the 440 was a mid year choice. He special ordered it with metallic gold, 383, light kit, air grabber hood, manual trans and hemi suspension. about 60K original miles. I even have the window sticker for it, original bill of sale and the magazines he used in 68 to decide to buy the Road Runner.

 

[terryknight]

Yes 383, it was owned by my father, when he got it there was only the 383 and 426 option, the 440 was a mid year choice. He special ordered it with metallic gold, 383, light kit, air grabber hood, manual trans and hemi suspension. about 60K original miles. I even have the window sticker for it, original bill of sale and the magazines he used in 68 to decide to buy the Road Runner.

that's really cool

 

[dodge man]

As a long time Mopar fan, thats a pretty awesome story. It looks like its a post car and not a hard top. I always thought the post cars with the flip open rear windows were pretty cool. Being a stick is just a bonus. Its not really in tune with this thread but if you posted a couple more pics of the Road Runner, I'd like to see them.

 

[wcampbell47]

In the early '70's I was LEO in Southern California. One afternoon while writing a report a red and black '69 Road Runner with 440 Hemi burnt rubber in front on me. Of course I went after him. Knew that my 383 Polaris was no match for the RR but he turned into an apartment complex. Turns out the RR was stolen the night before from an Anaheim used car lot. I lusted after that car. I hope the charge of Grand Theft Auto was worth that joy ride. LOL

 

[dodge man]

Not trying to be to ****, but the 440 was a wedge engine and the hemi was a 426.

 

[Cjm005]

 

[BarnieTrk]

I was told by a guy that does alot of towing across states that the FORD 6.7L PSD (for 2011, it was rated at 390HP/735ft/tq) performs head & shoulders better than the 7.3L or any previous gas/diesel engine. Just 2 cents worth......

BarnieTrk

 

[ultrarunner]

My neighbor tows 40k miles a year for work... started with a 7.3L then went to Chevrolet, back to the 6.7L and now with a gas GMC

Out of all the rigs the 7.3 had the least grunt... but it was also zero issues... the 3 that came after have all had serious, costly and time consuming warranty issues.

The gasser had a total engine and transmission replacement at under 5k miles... being in limp home mode crossing the SF Bay Bridge twice and once down I5 in the first 6 weeks made for one unhappy customer... since the power plant swap two years ago all has been good.

 

[LA Confederate]

I liked my 7.3 but Ford really missed the boat with the E4OD/4R100 transmission. 1st gear was really geared high (numerically low) compared to more modern transmissions. I think 1st was around 2.71:1 compared to 3.11:1 for 1st and 2.22:1 for 2nd on the 5r110 in later trucks. Made for a sluggish feeling truck off the line compounded by turbo spoil lag. Wasn't hard to turn up the power in them though which helped.

 

[ultrarunner]

I borrowed the 7.3 for a 800 mile trip towing a 6k trailer in one very long day.

Nothing bad to say about the truck... got on the Highway 5, set the cruise for 60... never missed a beat.

I was going to take my smaller 1/2 ton gas pickup and my neighbor came over and with his keys and said I should take his Diesel... said why go over the mountains maxed out with a 15 year old truck.

It was very nice of him and his wife as I never asked.

I help here and there when he has some tractor work... mostly leveling a pad for water tanks and such.

 

[grnspot110]

19+ year old Woodworth trailer (w/more recent modifications):

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

grnspot110, I like your trailer at lot. And I LOVE the grill guard on your tractor.

 

[grnspot110]

grnspot110, I like your trailer at lot. And I LOVE the grill guard on your tractor.

Thanks!

Local builder, it started out 16' w/3500# axles & slide out ramps. When I brought Dad's JD 720D home, I took it back & had the 6,000# axles, wheels &tires put under it (frame is plenty heavy enough). Next, after cancer treatments, the ramps got too heavy for me, so back to the builder for a 5' ramp-gate. When I got the finish mower I have now, I needed more room, so back to the builder for a 2' dovetail & shorter ramp-gate: Had to replace the first three deck boards last fall after 19 years of setting outside!

Also have a 10' Woodworth: They build anything from small single axles to special use semi trailers such as sprayer haulers.

I made the grille guard myself: On/off with one long pin.