What do you haul?

[Mikes91]

Show us those heavy loads!

I haul a 30 foot SilverStar 3-horse gooseneck with extended tack room (7 feet x 11 feet). Incomplete living quarters (adding gradually). About 10,000 +/- pounds currently with all horses, water, hay, feed, gear, dog, and family aboard.

65-75mph on the interstate, a few mph slower on some hills.

Not too bad for a 15 year old truck, eh?

 

[Mikes91]

First things first.......The picture with the blue Yamaha Raptor is sick, love it!

To Charlan.....the people at Diesel Truck Resource SUCK I can not stand the ******** Jack Thorpp!

I to do not like people that do not hual in a safe and leagal maner. I have seen many wrecks and most time it is to big of a load for the truck they have (most happen with 3/4 or 1 ton SRW and a gooseneck or fiver)

Now that I feel much better ..... This is our trailer It is a 36' tri-axle gooseneck called the EDGE by Halmark. It is used to transport our three Quads (Raptor,Lacota,Blaster) and or Ford pre-runner desert truck. It was built with a extra high kick-up to accomidate the lifted Dodge CTD. The front is a lounge with refrigerator,TV,Dvd,ac/heat,queen bed,day bed/sleeper. All cabinets are aluminum with polished fronts. Trailer weights 12,500lb with just quads, and about 16,000lbs with pre-runner and quads. Tows great, and all three axles have brakes.

You ain't kidding. Too many people pulling too big a load thinking that just because they're running a 3/4 or 1-ton SRW they can go 90 mph with a trailer in tow.

One gust of crosswind later, they're upside down in a ditch.

Still, the dumbest thing I've ever seen is a guy with an S-10 pulling what had to have been a 31' fiver. Unbelievable. The S-10 already has ZERO payload capacity... feel sorry for his brakes.

Mike

 

[Brickman]

Just because you can get a load moving does not mean your "truck" is capable of STOPPING the load. As has been pointed out /\


I'll take a 350 Cummins any day over a 600 CAT as long as I can stop my load.

 

[MUDDY]

my 78 dodge w200 gasser pulling my tt that i recently sold

my 97 4wd towing the tt i use when in the mud/snow/rocks. tracks perfect behnd fullsize srw and hi clearance. used to go break trail in springtime snow w/ it in good ol days. over the top of mnt in deep stuff and come out a few days ltr have to help someone stuck right in my tracks. cldnt believe old powerwagon and a tt actually broke trail in there where they cldnt go. old sucka been lots of places in yrs past. wish they'd still make rv's as tuff. over 42 yrs old and still structurally sound. a few battle scars tho

97 dually 2wd w/ recently aquirred 5er. to use when mpg a concrn. may have to slide the plate ahead a bit to have enuff pwr to make the hil tho

 

[haz-mat19]

I don't have anything to pull , But I have pulled a 9000 lb construction trailer to my friends hunting camp for their new living quarters. Oh ya no trailer brakes it was a fun trip truck was totally stock then can't wait for the next big pull now. See ya

 

[Mikes91]

I pull a 37' Phillips 6 horse trailer. All loaded up GCVW 25,000+ on an 88 F350, CC 7.3 IDI, NA truck.

You SO MUCH need a turbo...

Sharp looking rig, though. The BEST looking trailer/truck combo on the road is an '87-'91 F-350 dually hauling a 30' or bigger gooseneck horse trailer down the road.


Do you guys do endurance horseback racing?

Mike

 

[Brickman]

What I haul

and many other types of freight.

 

[BMF]

31' Areostar fiver wieghs 8.5k loaded for the weekend. Took a trip to Hot Springs Ark. first week I got the truck and had no problems pulling the hills.

 

[MudHog]

Here's some of mine.

I didnt get a picture of my last load which was 5 pallets of 3/8" OSB stacked onto a trailer with dual 12k axles and have a 2-5/16" ball for the bumper hitch.
The bottom 60 sheets were soaked from the flood at a friends house. I even pulled this from under their shed while in 8" of water.

 

[BigSix]

I tow our 10,400 lb 5th wheel. Not quite up to the 13,400 lb tow rating but if it were any heavier I would want a HO Cummins. Does a fine job and maintains 65-70 quite well. Long rolling hills slow us to about 58mph where it holds strongest in O/D. A HO would likely flatten those rolling hills out!

This was weird. I was reading my own post on page one and thinking, I don't have a 13,400 lb tow rating. Then it dawned on me this is my old truck. Instead of going for the HO, I decided to give the Hemi a try. Does a good job just one gear down in every like situation. New truck is a duplicate of the old truck but with Hemi. Next truck... who knows...

 

[MMeier]

I pull a 37' Phillips 6 horse trailer. All loaded up GCVW 25,000+ on an 88 F350, CC 7.3 IDI, NA truck.

Good thing you don't have to be anyplace anytime soon !!!

 

[94f450sd]

one pictures is the 95 town car i got the wife.the other is a junk dodge that a cab company bought.if my stinger would go up to its last hole i couldve put 2 of them dodges on it.the truck got rearended hard last year and theframe shop did a suck job of straightening the ICC bumper.3 pulls on it and it still aint straight.gotta do it myself someday.

 

[kblackav8or]

2k with a Alpenlite.

http://home.earthlink.net/~kblackav8or/images/our alpenlite.jpg

I have towed a uhaul car hauler behind that.

http://home.earthlink.net/~kblackav8or/images/5340t1.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~kblackav8or/images/5340pclubmach.jpg

 

[aaklingler]

nice mach, what year, 70? What motor?

 

[kblackav8or]

71 Mach 1. Tremec TKO II 5 speed, 351C at the moment. I have most of a 351 SVO in the garage. I finished up my 3 link suspension and watts link just before leaving on my current deployment. More pictures here:
http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/detail.php?id=321