Your towing rigs and trailers

[Sysop]

I showed it to my wife,, and she had a question,,
Considering the number of closed coal mines,, is it possible you could pick up an actual CAT machine for about the same money??

That looks expensive, and a non running CAT could be had for scrap price,,,

Not hardly. New oil and gas companies in the area have mostly bought up any of the used equipment around. Scrap draws a pretty good price as well.

Not to mention splinters are easier to tend to with a first aid kit versus gashes from rusted steel.

Plus this has options a real CAT lacks... A couple standard swings, a glider, a tire swing, a couple sliding boards, etc... Going to build a 4'x4' platform 50" high, paint it brown and put near the front of the CAT. Will put a climbing wall on one side, a climbing rope on another side, a slide on the third side, and a plain ladder on the fourth side. It will be the "pile of dirt" the dozer is working with...

Price wasn't bad paying cash and handling the pickup and setup myself.

Do you know how much scrap is on an old cat, and he’s going to be in a steep moving fee.

Surely would not be moving it with an F150... :laughing:

 

[ultrarunner]

Decided to get my "Last Trailer I Will Ever Buy".... 16.5K 4' + 20' tilt bed. I pull it with a 99 F350 "Powerstroke".


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This can handle anything I will ever tow including the tractor, cars, Goldwing, wife's CanAM Spyder, etc .... .

Anything I need to move that is bigger, I will pay someone to move.

That is quite a trailer... congratulations!

 

[DaKing]

 

[AVIVIII]

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Whats in the box?

 

[aczlan]

Whats in the box?

I would guess living quarters (hence the AC on the top)...

Aaron Z

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

So I have a dilemma, I have a 2wd F350 dually and a 20ft deck over with 4.5ft ladder ramps.



The ramps didn’t adjust very much for what I needed so I called a buddy over.



I now like the gate a lot, but the brakes are left to be desired, it has mobile home axles so I priced out some 7k axles with brakes on both axles and 5 new wheels and tires, $2500 from one place and $2100 from another. Maybe I should look into used axles.

I gave $1600 for the trailer, I have around $200 in everything I put in it, Idk if I can afford a new version just yet, but I need good brakes lol.

Also wanted a 4x4 pick up, found one with 33k miles, it’s a 99 F350 dually, auto with 7.3 powerstroke, guy wants 20k for it. I gave $1800 for the truck I have now with a 460 in it lol

My daily driver gets around 20mpg, I thought about selling the car and truck to get a newer F150 that can get around the same MPGs unloaded but can still tow 8,000-10,000lbs, I think that’s a tall order.

Idk I’ll prob just keep the F350, buy a Chevy volt for a DD and throw money in the trailer since I like the trailer so much, it’s great except for the axles.

I’m hauling everything from garden tractors to hay equipment and hay itself, 10 round bales is 7,000-8,000lbs plus the weight of the trailer (around 3,000lbs), easy to haul 10,000lbs to 11,000lbs including the trailer.

 

[Xfaxman]

Check into just converting from mobile home wheels and tires to truck or trailer wheels and tires. There are conversion kits available: convert mh wheels to trailer wheels - Google Search

 

[joeu235]

2016 F250 6.7, Big Tex 20 + 5

 

[piercedtiger]

Decided to get my "Last Trailer I Will Ever Buy".... 16.5K 4' + 20' tilt bed. I pull it with a 99 F350 "Powerstroke".

This can handle anything I will ever tow including the tractor, cars, Goldwing, wife's CanAM Spyder, etc .... .

Anything I need to move that is bigger, I will pay someone to move.

That's a nice trailer! I really wanted one of Gator's Aardvark "mini gooseneck" trailers. Looked like great quality for about half of what any trailer goes for here in NY, but the shipping cost more than I paid for my 5x10 trailer! It would seriously be $1000 or so cheaper for me to drive to TN to get it myself, assuming we didn't crash in a hotel along the way (shipping was $1200 or more). They have a factory in PA which would only be 3-4 hours from be, but of course it doesn't have any of the trailers that would suite my needs.

 

[StuartDK45SE]

My next trailer will be a deck-over. Picked up a used baler Saturday. We had to flip the baler wheels around to get some more clearance. I think we had 1/4" on each side. Truck is a 2003 5.9 Cummins with 122,000 miles.