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What Do You Tow?
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lincolnlocker
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Heaviest to date.. bout 19k trailer and tractor together. tractor is about 6 inches to far forward.. rides a bit rough but the firestone ride rites are working phenomenally well.. truck's getting 7mpg at 55mph.. but handles it very well..
live life full throttle
live life full throttle
weekendwarriorfsw32
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Headed to Bakersfield for the season opner
Dead 7.3
And a 6.4 with a cracked piston
Dead 7.3
And a 6.4 with a cracked piston
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Just towed this today. Trailer I was using was beatttt.... ~14k combined as I left the junkyard with the car loaded...
Kinda sketchy too. Somehow the trailer brakes decided to stop working the last week it sat... was probably only a 20 mile one way trip loaded so I went for it only because its back roads and my trucks a 5 speed... not the best feeling ever. Not bad but I was constantly keeping an extra eye out for idiots
Kinda sketchy too. Somehow the trailer brakes decided to stop working the last week it sat... was probably only a 20 mile one way trip loaded so I went for it only because its back roads and my trucks a 5 speed... not the best feeling ever. Not bad but I was constantly keeping an extra eye out for idiots
Bobby@cp
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Wait till you're pulling a bigger trailer with a heavy skid steer with a bucket and brush hogger on it and the brakes don't work.
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JD3020
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The brakes on our GN haven't worked for awhile now, last time they worked good was when we hauled a load of straw down to the Kentucky Horsepark area. Hell the day i had the Cat, 3 pallets of salt, and a snowplow i had no trailer brakes. LOL Truck handles it fine, a LOT better than hauling loaded hopper wagons. Nothing like having 300 bushel of corn pushing you downhill.
Twan
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Why tell people your brakes don't work?
I'm the last person to ever say something isn't smart, but you'll need to fix the brakes or don't say they don't work. Lol. Your just opening a can of worms.
I'm the last person to ever say something isn't smart, but you'll need to fix the brakes or don't say they don't work. Lol. Your just opening a can of worms.
B.Warning
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Haven't hauled anything real heavy yet and didn't get pics of some but here's a few.
Little 2950 Deere.
Couple pro boxes. Roughly 6k lbs of tongue weight.
Heaviest yet... LOL
Baby load.
Cat 257b. I really need a bigger machine.
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Little 2950 Deere.
Couple pro boxes. Roughly 6k lbs of tongue weight.
Heaviest yet... LOL
Baby load.
Cat 257b. I really need a bigger machine.
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Haven't hauled anything real heavy yet and didn't get pics of some but here's a few.
Little 2950 Deere.
Couple pro boxes. Roughly 6k lbs of tongue weight.
Heaviest yet... LOL
Baby load.
Cat 257b. I really need a bigger machine.
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How do you get flex for that rear end? Looks like you have 4in of wheel travel.
Other than that. That truck looks AMAZING. .. The bumper is looking better every time I look at it. I like how you kept the simple 22.5s.
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If that trailer could speak on how heavy you loaded it lol. Those all your trailers?
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lincolnlocker
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RSK
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averaged 19.5mpg with for 300 miles with this. towed it like a boss. to be fair it was light probably only 6000lbs between the car and trailer.
RSK
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small load of brush.
little bit of pine.
JD3020
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My toy for a few days.
My toy for a few days.
Nice!!! Those are great even in the tough stuff.
JD3020
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Yeah, its an awesome little machine. This is the second one we've rented this month, talking about leasing one but at $1500 a month we'd have to get a bit more work to justify it.
But the thumb is absolutely worthless! It has no pressure, trying to grab a pile of brush or boulders and everything just falls out. I even have the pressure set all the way up and i'm holding the roller button the entire time. You'd think that a brand new machine that retails north of $100k would have a thumb that works as good as a 10 year old and wore out Kotmatsu that set all these boulders here. These are some smaller ones. Only way i can pick em up is if i dig and scoop under them, or roll them down into the blade and then push them into the bucket.
But the thumb is absolutely worthless! It has no pressure, trying to grab a pile of brush or boulders and everything just falls out. I even have the pressure set all the way up and i'm holding the roller button the entire time. You'd think that a brand new machine that retails north of $100k would have a thumb that works as good as a 10 year old and wore out Kotmatsu that set all these boulders here. These are some smaller ones. Only way i can pick em up is if i dig and scoop under them, or roll them down into the blade and then push them into the bucket.
Yeah, its an awesome little machine. This is the second one we've rented this month, talking about leasing one but at $1500 a month we'd have to get a bit more work to justify it.
But the thumb is absolutely worthless! It has no pressure, trying to grab a pile of brush or boulders and everything just falls out. I even have the pressure set all the way up and i'm holding the roller button the entire time. You'd think that a brand new machine that retails north of $100k would have a thumb that works as good as a 10 year old and wore out Kotmatsu that set all these boulders here. These are some smaller ones. Only way i can pick em up is if i dig and scoop under them, or roll them down into the blade and then push them into the bucket.
I have only used them for digging like running gas lines/building retaining walls and stuff like that and it handles the dirt fine and whatever rocks were in it fine...never tried to do land scaping (moving boulders) etc. Good to know in case that ever comes up.
JD3020
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I don't landscape either. LOL Ripping out a bunch of landscaping to do some grading and seeding. Maybe just this hoe has an issue, IDK. It had 38 hours when we got it. I was really disappointed in it, makes my life hell as we have several loads of boulders and brush to haul out but with the thumb being useless it makes it a challenge. At this point it would've been easier just to rent a grapple for our skid steer.
I've done a little trenching with it also. Put in about 250' of sleeves in a parking lot thats getting re-done. I love how smooth and quiet these Cats are, and they are great to run, but at times the hydraulics just seem weak. This is a 304 BTW, i think its one of the biggest mini's Cat has.
I've done a little trenching with it also. Put in about 250' of sleeves in a parking lot thats getting re-done. I love how smooth and quiet these Cats are, and they are great to run, but at times the hydraulics just seem weak. This is a 304 BTW, i think its one of the biggest mini's Cat has.
