Your towing rigs and trailers

[Gale Hawkins]

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Getting the last load of hay for 2018 to the classic 100 year old hayloft for the daughter's mini horses on the 22' 14K equipment tilt trailer towed by the 2010 F-150 equipped with the 11.2K max towing capacity option.

The the background you can see a tobacco barn of the same era that has been restored. It is a toss up if the owner does the same for his grandfather's old stock barn. He is a little older than I am and hates to just tear it down but the expense to save it would not be small.

 

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Getting the last load of hay for 2018 to the classic 100 year old hayloft for the daughter's mini horses on the 22' 14K equipment tilt trailer towed by the 2010 F-150 equipped with the 11.2K max towing capacity option.

The the background you can see a tobacco barn of the same era that has been restored. It is a toss up if the owner does the same for his grandfather's old stock barn. He is a little older than I am and hates to just tear it down but the expense to save it would not be small.

Holy smokes, isn’t that barn about to fall down?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Holy smokes, isn’t that barn about to fall down?

I hope not. We need to look at the other end of the barn to see how much it has shifted.

The owner would like to save it for personal reasons so we are going to look at it soon. Some external bracing maybe in order near term. It has a negative cash value is my thought but with 3 old telephone poles and the backhoe one could buy some time perhaps at no real cash cost.

Any thoughts?

 

[piercedtiger]

I hope not. We need to look at the other end of the barn to see how much it has shifted.

The owner would like to save it for personal reasons so we are going to look at it soon. Some external bracing maybe in order near term. It has a negative cash value is my thought but with 3 old telephone poles and the backhoe one could buy some time perhaps at no real cash cost.

Any thoughts?

I've seen steel cables attached to beams on opposite sides drawn in with a come-along used to pull walls back in before clamping down the cable. That shouldn't be too expensive. Then you need to deal with the foundation and bottom of the walls leaning out. I have friends dealing with that. Old barn with a crumbling foundation on the down-hill wall, made worse by a horse kicking the wall on the outside corner in a doorway.

 

[4570Man]

Think I have enough trailer for my L3800?

 

[AWSubie]

That is a lot of trailer! Gotta love those mega ramps!

 

[4570Man]

That is a lot of trailer! Gotta love those mega ramps!

Those are great. Worth every penny of the near 1k price tag.

 

[BoneStock]

My towing options are:
2003 Silverado, 4.3 auto. 87k miles.
Or my
1986 D100, 225 4 speed, 157k miles.
Pulling... 17 custom made trailer.

 

[CADplans]

If I have to go too far, I will haul in the truck, rather than take the trailer,,,

This is my Cub Cadet 800 coming home a couple years ago,,
we stopped so the 800 could visit with its young cousins,,, :laughing:

 

[RichM752]

Off to another brush clearing job.