What Do You Tow?

dsberman94 · Jul 12, 2015

lincolnlocker said:
nope not wet. they get paid by the ton for dry hay so we use a 6x6 or 5x6 jd roundbaler that packs so tight you can barely stick a pitch fork in the ends.. 300 to 400 lb bales are a waste of time for us.

live life full throttle

Well now I wish we could get some of those around here. They'd last a hell of a lot longer than what we get too. But we only pay $30-$35 for them. I can get one in the bed of my truck with my toolbox and the stacks in there and it'll roll around if they aren't stood on end. Seems a little smaller than those look. Still quite a load for those old girls though.

lincolnlocker · Jul 12, 2015

dsberman94 said:
Well now I wish we could get some of those around here. They'd last a hell of a lot longer than what we get too. But we only pay $30-$35 for them. I can get one in the bed of my truck with my toolbox and the stacks in there and it'll roll around if they aren't stood on end. Seems a little smaller than those look. Still quite a load for those old girls though.

first cutting goes 60-80 bucks a bale that is 1k lbs...

yeah, the gray ghost scalled this

dont think they scaled ole red

dsberman94 said:
Well now I wish we could get some of those around here. They'd last a hell of a lot longer than what we get too. But we only pay $30-$35 for them. I can get one in the bed of my truck with my toolbox and the stacks in there and it'll roll around if they aren't stood on end. Seems a little smaller than those look. Still quite a load for those old girls though.

live life full throttle

lincolnlocker · Jul 12, 2015

dont ask me why the quote showed up twice

live life full throttle

psduser1 · Jul 13, 2015

dsberman94 said:
Well now I wish we could get some of those around here. They'd last a hell of a lot longer than what we get too. But we only pay $30-$35 for them. I can get one in the bed of my truck with my toolbox and the stacks in there and it'll roll around if they aren't stood on end. Seems a little smaller than those look. Still quite a load for those old girls though.

I'm shipping a load to east of cleveland, my driver goes anywhere -2.50 a mile.

dsberman94 · Jul 13, 2015

psduser1 said:
I'm shipping a load to east of cleveland, my driver goes anywhere -2.50 a mile.

Pretty sure it would be more worth it to just buy the 300 lb ones at that point.

dangerous1 · Jul 13, 2015

TyCorr said:
No. They arent up here. Guys paying 5500 for what cost 8 or 9 up here.

Around here they want 75% of what it cost new, then it needs new tires and brakes at the least.

03-Blue-Powerstroke · Jul 13, 2015

Here's another load of firewood from this weekend. It was over 2 cords. I could get more in if I stack it but, it's much easier to dump it in with the kubota.

Sterling B. · Jul 14, 2015

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TyCorr · Jul 14, 2015

The truck is saying "get the ***k off of me"..

Why is that draggin azs so bad?

lincolnlocker · Jul 14, 2015

TyCorr said:
The truck is saying "get the ***k off of me"..

Why is that draggin azs so bad?

ground is higher in the front... tires are in ruts.. maybe? cuz a 4x4 tractor with a loader is ***in heavy!! rear tires sould be dam near touching the beaver tail.

live life full throttle

Sterling B. · Jul 14, 2015

U/A code springs respectively and pretty worn out after 316K. :fustrate: It could have been about a foot farther back, but on level ground the trailer was level. The truck is on a slight incline in the pic compared to the trailer, but was still a bit tail low on level ground.

However, it handled it much better than I though it would. maintained 55 mph on my 40 hp tow tune and didn't exceed 1100* climbing the hills.:rockon: Granted, the hills weren't huge, but that cab makes for a pretty big sail. I plan to replace the springs with X/Cs when I get the time.

TyCorr · Jul 14, 2015

Sterling B. said:
U/A code springs respectively and pretty worn out after 316K. :fustrate: It could have been about a foot farther back, but on level ground the trailer was level. The truck is on a slight incline in the pic compared to the trailer, but was still a bit tail low on level ground.

However, it handled it much better than I though it would. maintained 55 mph on my 40 hp tow tune and didn't exceed 1100* climbing the hills.:rockon: Granted, the hills weren't huge, but that cab makes for a pretty big sail. I plan to replace the springs with X/Cs when I get the time.

I pulled the villages backhoe, and attachments back to the shop in arlington which is quite a bit higher elevation wise. My truck is rolling around on a 250k mile 6" skyjacker lift and 35s/20s. Have a 38r, competition fuel systemn and it gad a healthy srp1.1 at the time. I was in between injector sets so the stocjers were in there. I had a 80hp towing tune for it. The load was about 30k lbs. I ran that grade for 7 miles at 2%-5% at WOT and it never exceeded 900deg and was holding 62mph and in some of the slighter inclines was actually gaining speed. Php tuning.

I can kind of see it nosing uphill a bit in that picture. I was mostly joking though.

smcox1 · Jul 16, 2015

My 16' show cattle trailer behind the 6.4

dsberman94 · Jul 16, 2015

I understand what show cattle is, I just can't believe it's that big of a thing.

smcox1 · Jul 16, 2015

It's huge lol! And definitely a lot of money involved. I'm sure it will shock most people when I say high quality steer's sell for more than what a brand new platinum costs LOL In that picture I have two heifers in the back that are worth more than what the 6.4 cost new LOL

eng53ine · Jul 16, 2015

dsberman94 said:
I understand what show cattle is, I just can't believe it's that big of a thing.

You wouldn't think people would drive all over the country to show a horse either. But they do.

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durflinger92 · Jul 16, 2015

eng53ine said:
You wouldn't think people would drive all over the country to show a horse either. But they do.

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This!! Cows > horses

dsberman94 · Jul 16, 2015

eng53ine said:
You wouldn't think people would drive all over the country to show a horse either. But they do.

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I know redrice drive from Florida to Erie pa for horses.

Strokersace · Jul 16, 2015

dsberman94 said:
I know redrice drive from Florida to Erie pa for horses.

Those are race horses, not show horses. They do it for resources and strategy for training.

The show horse world is COMPLETELY different.

smcox1 · Jul 16, 2015

I know some people that pay $20,000 for one straw of semen to AI show horses. The good thing is you are guaranteed a live colt so if the horse isn't bred the first time you can AI her again and don't have to pay the $20,000. But if she does end up having a colt and it dies a few days after birth you're screwed. You can make a lot of money in the show cattle or horse business but you will also have a lot of money invested into this business and the thing is your "business" can just die on you one day for absolutely no reason. It's definitely a stressful business and very, very time consuming because you have to tend to it 24/7 but I love it.