2009 Polaris XP

[barneyrb]

man you in louisiana too? where you at man?? i'm way down here.

WMon....do a lot of fishing in the salt out of Hopedale and Venice.

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

hey neg but me rhino's alot "fASTER". i plan on havein a tyrex and a rtv 1100 before next summer too so that will give me 4.. to put this thread to rest i'm gonna have to get my buddy over here this weekend and load him up with my batteries before i sell them. i have almost 40 right now the way i see it is he should be able to carry 25/30 of them if polaris is right ??right??? that should put him right at 1klbs but polaris says they can carry more so what is the bed cargo capacity of the 700xp? i have well over 2,600lbs of batteries so i have enough to test them out.lol and i'll weigh each battery with my digital toilet room scale to make sure i get it right.lol. so anyone wanna make bets on how the ranger does???

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

ok guys the specs page is saying 1500 lbs in the bed am i right??? this is a plastic bed. my buddy will probably try it he's crazy enough to do it . so we'll see what happens stay tuned. remeber the video they made of them being able to steer easy with the wheels on the ground and a full load in the bed well i guess we gonna see. i know i wouldn't even put 400lbs in my rhino and it calls forr it.lol. now my hpx i load that sucker down but right now shes on the wounded list with two a-arm bushings that are bad and a tie-rode broke or just about broke . but i still drive her. .

 

[nmu98]

Take many pictures and videos Tommy...

No matter what, I still wish I had a bench seat like the ranger.....

I also bet it does not do that bad with 1,000 pounds. Get much over that, and I bet its bad.

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

no i go down to cocodrie dulac . i like cat fishin my neck is a little to messed up for the fast pased salt water fishing. i like sitting down on the side the bayou an a sunny day and just waitin for a bite .rather than cast out the line and wam!!it runs off the second it hits the water and it's gone. infact a buddy just sent me some pictures of a redfish run they was fishin after gustav or ike 'i'll load the pictures and post them. there are so many reds you could hook one without bait just cast out and reel it in.lol

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

here's the pictures of the reds . it was after gustav. i think they was takin around venice i'm not sure but where ever they was they was biten that day. you could probably get out and walk on them or scoop them up with a net. there are so many reds in the water the water is red.lol

 

[DMF]

We have a 2007 Polaris and we like it a lot. We have a small farm (25 acres) and we use it what I would consider somewhat on the hard side (if things are extremely difficult, that's what the tractor is for right?) but it gets used a lot. We have a factory poly roof, glass windshield, rear screen and the electric dump option. Now...the electric dump seemed pretty hokey to me, but (knocking on wood over here) we have not had it fail yet. We pick (literally) tons of rocks every year and now that we have the Ranger, my wife and daughter get in on the act; we've had the body loaded to the top with rocks and she dragged tail a bit but it handles it and dumps fine. I know for a fact that we've had 1,000 pounds in the bed and it handled the load fine...steered easier for sure, but it handled it. One other thing, we keep the rear suspension set pretty light so I'm sure it would perform better if we cranked the shocks up too.

I'm not sure what the weight is here, but this Alberta Moose Guide hauls some heavy loads with his Ranger every year as well...

 

[radman1]

It's amazing a moose could fall asleep in the back of the polaris ranger. Must be a smooth ride!

 

[bmac]

ok guys the specs page is saying 1500 lbs in the bed am i right??? .

Tommy,

My understanding is the its 1500 lbs total. 1000 in the bed, and up to 500 in the cab. That's how I read it anyway

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

ok we gonna try 1000k i'm gonna call my buddy tomorrow and get him over here . we gonna see if we can make a ranger do a wheelie.lol

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

i just got off the phone with my buddy and asked him he said are you crazy 1000k in the bed .i told him the specs says it can do it so he said he will show up tomorrow so we'll see.

 

[nmu98]

ok we gonna try 1000k i'm gonna call my buddy tomorrow and get him over here . we gonna see if we can make a ranger do a wheelie.lol

i just got off the phone with my buddy and asked him he said are you crazy 1000k in the bed .i told him the specs says it can do it so he said he will show up tomorrow so we'll see.

Are you sure you should just not leave well enough alone. This might end up costing you..LOL... Sorry, I could not resist....

Seriously, the Polaris is not a slouch in the utility vehicle sector. Why play this game. No matter what you do, people will challenge and question you.

I think there are alot of differences between the Polaris XP and the JD XUV, and most of the difference is in speed. They both can do a lot of work!

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

well it has been brung up many times about what the rnager can haul and i happen to have a friend with one and i have a lot of batteries and it's impossible to fake the weight of a bettery. so that would be the best thing to throw in the bed. you can put all the sacks of stuff you want but who's to say what is in them sacks.and as for as cender blocks like they show in the ranger video well there are a few diferent types of blocks made with diferent cement and i tell you this there is a 10lbs diference from one the cheap block to the good block. now like i posted befor a battery weight is pretty good at being over 40 are around itmost marine matteries are over 50lbs them big 8d batteries are 110lbs. but anyway we gonna see .i'm gonna get him over here to load that thing up.here's some pictures of him riding it in one of our holes . note it don't look like this anymore he tore the side compartment door off and hit a tree with the front anf bent the bumpt on both sides .yes it gets abused but he says thats what they are for. but then he freaks out when i ask to drop 1000klbs in the bed???go figure

 

[DMF]

you can put all the sacks of stuff you want but who's to say what is in them sacks.

There are always non-believers for everything. I buy my lime in bags by the ton and weigh them so I know what I've had in it, but you don't know me from Adam, so do your little experiment. I hope you will post the honest results here when you're done; I'm anxious to see them.

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

i'm just waitin on the ranger .i'm gonna give him a call again today and see whats up . yestereday they went ride in the spillway so he should be back today. well as for as believeine a regular joe i would but as for as them utv makers no i wouldn't belive any of them. thats why we have forums like this so guys like us can post true honest pics and videos of what these things really do from day to day and what they can and can not do. i have a yamaha rhino and they say it can haul 400lbs in the bed"I DON'T THINK SO" that thing would be so hard to steer and would probably be riding a wheelie to. i say a good load for the ranger is about 600lbs and that would be about right. but i'll get it over here and we'll see.hopefully i'm wrong but i say around 600.

 

[DMF]

Well, I have a 2' x 2' x 4' stainless steel tank that I used to use for watering pumpkins with my Ranger. The weight of the water alone would be 998.4 (62.4245 pounds/cubic foot at 39.1 degrees F)...now, I admit that I probably wouldn't fill it to the top, most likely to 6" of the top (due to sloshing, even with the cover on) which brings it down to approx. 750 pounds of water. I haven't entered the weight of the tank itself, but I would guess it's over 50 pounds so up until this year (we had way too much rain to worry about having to water this year) I've honestly carried 800 pounds on a weekly basis...

 

[nmu98]

There are always non-believers for everything. I buy my lime in bags by the ton and weigh them so I know what I've had in it, but you don't know me from Adam, so do your little experiment. I hope you will post the honest results here when you're done; I'm anxious to see them.

X2

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

i got i9n touch with him today and we gonna load it up probably tomorrow but he won't be able to drive around with any kinda load he snapped the front cv joint on the drivers side but we can load up the bed and take pictures and a video.i hope that is good enough atleast that will show what the ranger looks like with a true 1000k lbs load in the bed to bad we won't beable to drive around with it. he might drive up about 10 feet or so but thats about it.

 

[BrianW]

What setting are you using for the rear shocks/springs. I have seen videos of people loading the XP with the springs set at the softest settings and saying "see, it can't hold the weight"

Well, I have a 2' x 2' x 4' stainless steel tank that I used to use for watering pumpkins with my Ranger. The weight of the water alone would be 998.4 (62.4245 pounds/cubic foot at 39.1 degrees F)...now, I admit that I probably wouldn't fill it to the top, most likely to 6" of the top (due to sloshing, even with the cover on) which brings it down to approx. 750 pounds of water. I haven't entered the weight of the tank itself, but I would guess it's over 50 pounds so up until this year (we had way too much rain to worry about having to water this year) I've honestly carried 800 pounds on a weekly basis...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

i know what you mean about the springs we plan on putting the setting to the stiffest setting my buddy has his set to the softest setting right now. i think they come like that from the factory don't they??

What setting are you using for the rear shocks/springs. I have seen videos of people loading the XP with the springs set at the softest settings and saying "see, it can't hold the weight"