Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[roadhunter]

If you get it hooked up a Kubota will pull it. You might have to take it easy on a JD. Brand bashing aside the Kubota is geared low and diesel powered.

I had an aluminum ambulance cab filled with tools on a 16 ft utility trailer from an auction. I parked it in a low spot and my truck could not get traction. I backed up with my Polaris ranger XP and it pulled the trailer right out. Back end was squatted with probably 500+ pounds of tongue weight. It wasn't pretty but it did it. I later scrapped the ambulance cab and it was over 3,000 pounds just by itself. I"m sure the load was well over 5,000 pounds. Pretty amazing what some of those machines can do.

 

[groundcover]

Watch the belts on that Polaris, what a pain when they go !

 

[Diamondpilot]

I had an aluminum ambulance cab filled with tools on a 16 ft utility trailer from an auction. I parked it in a low spot and my truck could not get traction. I backed up with my Polaris ranger XP and it pulled the trailer right out. Back end was squatted with probably 500+ pounds of tongue weight. It wasn't pretty but it did it. I later scrapped the ambulance cab and it was over 3,000 pounds just by itself. I"m sure the load was well over 5,000 pounds. Pretty amazing what some of those machines can do.

I pull in and out our two companies airplanes with a Polaris Ranger. It has a Reese hitch in the front in place of the winch. One plane is 10,495# and the other is 24,000#. It has no trouble even in the winter tanks to 4x4 and 8 40# weights in the bed as needed.

Chris

 

[farm boy00]

The old duramax needs some new shocks

 

[George2615]

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The old duramax needs some new shocks

Can't say whether it needs new shocks but it does at least need new rear springs or a load distribution hitch. The 7K trailer is probably overloaded too.

 

[farm boy00]

Can't say whether it needs new shocks but it does at least need new rear springs or a load distribution hitch. The 7K trailer is probably overloaded too.

The Ford can't be over 7k. The duramax is about 9k with all tools in it and hooked to a 16ft landscape trailer

My guess is that the Ford isnt more then 4k. It's only got a little straight six 4 speed

but the shocks are actually bad

 

[George2615]

The Ford can't be over 7k. The duramax is about 9k with all tools in it and hooked to a 16ft landscape trailer

My guess is that the Ford isnt more then 4k. It's only got a little straight six 4 speed

but the shocks are actually bad

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I didn't know it was yours.
a 7K trailer can't haul 7K. Maybe could haul 4500-5000 depending on trailer weight.
New rear springs and a load dist. hitch would prevent the Dmax rear from squatting so much.

 

[chopped]

Yep. When I go to get gas (with 5-6 5 gallon cans in the back of the truck) I ALWAYS strap them in. No chance of them coming through the back window for a visit that way.

Aaron Z

Thought i'd share this one.When I dint have a truck, I got 5 gallons of gas in a can and was placed on the floor behind the front seat. It had a large fill hole.. anyways someone cut me off in the parking lot, and the can fell over , and spilled about half plus before I realized it... I stopped and stood it upright and all I could do was to drive home with the windows open and the heater on ,using a magazine out the window to suck air in and also I would take breaths out the window and hold it. Then once home I took a chisel and hammer sliced a drain hole in the floor and then ran the water.
then closed windows and bake dried it in the sun..LOL

 

[WM75Guy]

Get one of these ratcheting bars to keep your cans in place. I put my cans against the tailgate and this in front. With the bed mat they never move.

SmartStraps 40-70 in. Pickup Ratcheting Cargo Bar - For Life Out Here

 

[TomSeller]

Thought i'd share this one.When I dint have a truck, I got 5 gallons of gas in a can and was placed on the floor behind the front seat. It had a large fill hole.. anyways someone cut me off in the parking lot, and the can fell over , and spilled about half plus before I realized it... I stopped and stood it upright and all I could do was to drive home with the windows open and the heater on ,using a magazine out the window to suck air in and also I would take breaths out the window and hold it. Then once home I took a chisel and hammer sliced a drain hole in the floor and then ran the water.
then closed windows and bake dried it in the sun..LOL

A match would have dried it out quicker