em14
Platinum Member
How do you secure,i.e., tie down your tractor in a dump bed?
Leo
Leo
1*But with a dump bed pick up and a tilt bed trailer you don't have to fool around with hooking up a trailer jockeying 2 vehicles down the road just to pick up a couple a tons of slag gravel sand dirt etc then un hooking a trailer and putting it away when you get done.vettemanwight said:My Bri Mar has rings in the bed.
1* The thing about a dump bed P/U truck is you really cant haul very much.
2*with my super duty when I haul something with the dump trailer and am done with it I unhook the trailer and I have a sharp looking truck to drive. V
1*Sounds light to me since I bought a new Ford 3/4 ton pickup back in 71 that would haul 2 ton or so easily.vettemanwight said:1*Well with a dump bed pickup you can haul lets say its a 1 ton pickup 1 load equals 1 ton....
2* now with a dump trailer, mine is a 6 ton... 1 load equals 6 ton that's 6 loads with your pickup dump and 1 with my trailer
3*with diesel at $5 gallon and gas at $4.25 per gallon if you have to haul any distance add up the cost of fuel.
4* Oh and now the DOT works sat and Sundays in NY and they are targeting pickups that are overloaded maybe you don't get an overload ticket which can cost $200 to $300.
5* Also if you have to make 6 trips lets say 10 miles each trip at 45 min per load look at the time you have invested, not exactly what I want to do on my day off !!!
6* Plus its easier to disable your trailer so that when a neighbor or friend wants to borrow it to get something than it is to disable your dump pick up.