Tractor Portability

RobertN · Nov 3, 2000

I am planning on a diesel in the somewhat near future. I like the better feul mileage... My chores are any of the following:
Pull two horse trailer w/horses
Tow B8200 Kubota
Tow Farmall A
Haul 9' Cabover camper
Haul firewood, gravel, "stuff"

I want to be able to tow the horse trailer while hauling the camper eventually. Would also like to be able to take the Farmall to shows and such, with the camper too.

I have a '89 F250 4x4 with a 351 right now. Most annoying to me is the 9-10mpg. 4.11 gears help pulling, but not MPG

It's gonna be mid next year maybe... depending on a certian hi-tech companies stock, for which I work /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

TexasJeff · Nov 3, 2000

This Forum is in trouble Now!! My Wife Just bought her a Digital Camera. Here is a pic of My Tractor Hauling Trailer
12K 24 ft gooseneck 5 ft ramps We pull it with a 97 3/4 ton chevy Gas

RobertN · Nov 3, 2000

Now that's big! But, I'd be expectin that from a Texan /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Nice setup!

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

scruffy · Nov 3, 2000

RobertN, I have a 10' cabover setting down behind my Dad's house in Oregon. All its good for is a moss growing site! My RAM wouldn't handle it, even if I beefed up the suspension. My old 72 Chev 1/2 ton with the 350c.i./400 turbo tranny and 3/4 ton suspension handled it just fine, even with a trailer behind it. Of course gas mileage was a consistant 10.5 empty, 10.5 loaded. Didn't make any differance to the truck.
If I tried that with this 3.9L V6, I would get GREAT gas mileage, because I would have to take it off in order to move! It pulls the tractor/trailer combo, or trailer/car, but not to the margin of comfort that I would like power wise. Go for the diesel!
One other tip, don't ever try two ply sidewall radials with that camper! I got an excellant buy on a set (oversized) and put them on my p/u, they were fine when it was empty, held the road just beautiful! Nice with a load of firewood even, but when I put that camper on, holy moly! First corner I hit, it went into in nicely, was holding the road great, and all of a sudden, the truck shifted to the outside as it rolled on those tires. Scared the you know what out of me, and I turned around, went back to town and had a set of 10X15's thrown on! Totally unstable with that camper.
TexasJeff, I like your trailer, could haul just about half the state on it!
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by scruffy on 11/3/00 08:31 PM.</FONT></P>

Harv · Nov 3, 2000

TexasJeff -

Awesome trailer!

Nice picture.

Which camera did she get?

TexasJeff · Nov 3, 2000

I believe it is a Hewlett Packard 315 Just a simple Camera for the barn,shop and on her competitive rides. I can even use it. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

scruffy · Nov 5, 2000

Dang! I made that thing too portable! Neighbor saw it setting on the trailer and offered 4grand for it, didn't want to sell it, so I said I wouldn't take less than 4.5grand, and the turkey stopped by today and bought it!
Bummer, now I don't have a tractor anymore.

( Oh well, I did double my money, which made the spouse happy.

TWINKLE_TOES · Nov 6, 2000

My guess is, you already are have your eyeball on another tractor. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

scruffy · Nov 6, 2000

Twink, unfortunately, no. I don't think I will look until I figure out what we are going to do, or where the doing will be. Phoenix wouldn't meet my salary requirements, but the company I spent five years working for called and offered a job in SW Illinois at the salary range I wanted, so big discussions going on about that. We don't really want to go east again, as the last time took five years to get back to the west!!

TWINKLE_TOES · Nov 6, 2000

Scruffy,
Illinois, thats a little different than Arizona. I was stationed at Chanute AFB in Rantoul(spelling?) 30 years ago.

All that I rember is hot, humid, flat,soy beans, corn and loco weed. The county mounties would come by where I lived once a month with flame throwers, kind of a scorched earth police. Before you ask, no I didn't plant the loco weed, but I did enhale when they burned it. Good luck whatever you decide, and keep us posted as it unfolds. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif