JD 2320 in a dump trailer

em14 · Jun 21, 2008

How do you secure,i.e., tie down your tractor in a dump bed?
Leo

vettemanwight · Jun 21, 2008

My Bri Mar has rings in the bed. The thing about a dump bed P/U truck is you really cant haul very muchand 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

LBrown59 · Jun 21, 2008

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*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.
2*Ya don't have to un hook a trailer from a dump bed pick up to make it look good. Then too with a tilt bed trailer you don't have to wrestle around with gut busting ramps.

vettemanwight · Jun 21, 2008

Well with a dump bed pickup you can haul lets say its a 1 ton pickup 1 load equals 1 ton.... now with a dump trailer, mine is a 6 ton... 1 load equals 6 ton thats 6 loads with your pickup dump and 1 with my trailer and 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 . Oh and now the DOT works sat and sundays in NY and they are targeting pickups that are overloaded maybe you dont get an overload ticket which can cost $200 to $300 . 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 !!! Plus its easier to disable your trailer so that when a neighbor or friend wants to borrow itto get something than it is to disable your dump pick up that you just came back from the groery store with groceries !!!!!!! Just my opinion. V

LBrown59 · Jun 21, 2008

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.

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.
I once hauled 6000 pounds with it and it handled it pretty well but was more than I cared to see on it so there after I tried to keep it between 4000 and 4500 pounds which it handled nicely. I think you're forgetting about the tilt bed trailer I mentioned but any way why bother with it to run after a ton or two of something when the pick up is all you need for the trip?
2*Yeah but I didn't need to pay $9.00 per ton for 6 tons when I only needed 2 ton of the $9.00 a ton material. That's a 36 dollar savings right there.
3*Even at those fuel prices I could have hauled what I need in one trip for way less than the $85 it cost me to hire out a dump truck to haul it for me. The 85 bucks did not include the material either.
4*Around here they concentrate on the big trucks and the commercial trucks rather than the private owned vehicles so that's not a problem here.
5*If I owned a pick up with a dump bed I could have made one trip and gotten what I needed an been done with it.
As it happened it was 3 days before I was able to acquire a truck to make the haul. Had I had the pick up I could have went and got the stuff and completed the entire project within those 3 days that I spent waiting on a truck.
Waiting 3 days to get the stuff isn't exactly how I wanted to spend 3 days.
Also I could have better spotted where I wanted the stuff dumped with the dump pick ups smaller size and better maneuverability compared to the truck trailer combo and the big bulky dump truck.
6*No is a great disabler.