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What is everyone towing? And don't say a trailer :doah: What is on your trailer... boat, car, camper, bobcat etc..

I guess I could start, I tow my GM based rock crawler.

I generally tow the same thing, but my trailer is not nearly as cool. ;) But I've also towed a mill on my "car trailer", and several large heavy wood shop machines when my neighbor moved up to Prescott. His half ton GMC wasn't up to climbing Sunset Pass (6%+ and ~5000 feet elevation change IIRC) at ~18k gross. We loaded all the heavy big stuff onto my trailer and lashed down. All the smaller heavy stuff into my bed. And all the fluffy bulky stuff into his. That GMC 4.8(?) V8 still couldn't keep up as my chipped DMax walked over the top easily, frequenly passing unloaded cars that couldn't hold speed. rotfl :pimp: Ah, gotta love a chipped diesel and the Allison...

Also pulled a lightly loaded goose *once* along with helping move a 25' 5er camper, so I guess that justifies the 30k fiver/goose setup I installed... :doah:

Oh, and I've towed my K5 in once too.

That's about it.

I generally just tow my Toyota pickup on a 16+2 PJ car hauler. Ive hauled shingles and loads of brick for people i work with as well, but not very often.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/joez60451/P5130129.jpg

Mostly scrap metal, but I recently pulled a 36' camper, a 27' camper, and a 28' pontoon boat for my Dad using my 1/2 ton gasser. My truck hates me, lol.

Whatever needs to be hauled. waytogo It's usually the 27' sled trailer or boat, but many times I haul miscelaneous items on our flatbeds.

30 ft gooseneck
1 ton K5 on 42s
24' pontoon
misc cars and trucks on my 22' tilt, bumper pull
my rice rocket fits nicely in the bed

I usually pull our 30ft Cardinal 5er which weights 12,000lbs. On occasion I have pulled 25ft goosenecks haulling broke down vehicles.:D

Just last 2 weeks i towed a Cat 938 set of forks, 2 big cam 3 855ci cummins engines, tons of loads of hay out of the fields, a cat IT28b and IT 28F, my GM Truggy project, furniture helping friends move, and all while hauling @$$.....

mini excavators
skid steers
trench boxes
boring machines
road tractors (hauled my western star to the shop)
rock box
shooting boom fork lifts
rubber tire back hoes
boom lifts
sissor lifts
up to 12'' water pumps & pipe

anything that makes me $waytogo

I haven't found anything it wont haul (within reason) so far I have grossed 32,180#'s

24' Maxum Boat:)
http://towrig.com/photos/data/509/IMG002.JPG

I bought my F350 to tow this to races:

http://www.z06vette.com/gallery/data/500/758web2-med.jpg

towrig with truggy on 34" gooseneck going back and forth between shops workin on truggy

I tow my 1972K5 on a 10K 18' PJ trailer & I haul my Outfitter Apex9.5 in the back of my 2500HD:
http://towrig.com/photos/data/509/tow1.jpg
http://towrig.com/photos/data/505/tow2.jpg

36ft wells cargo gooseneck
20ft flatbed gooseneck
36ft cardinal fifthwheel
skiboat
bunch of other 16-22 flat and enclosed bumper pulls
trailer mount generators

I volunteer for an events company so I tow there stuff around. They own 9 different trailers. My favorite was a 16ft utility trailer attached to the back of the 20ft gooseneck for cleanup through 5 miles of road. Police escort the whole way driving down the center of the road picking up traffic control equipment. Scaled once at 23600lbs, hated being that heavy. Normally around 20000lbs.

eveything and anything, most things have wheels, some don't.
tow witha pair of f350's, JD tractors, chevy trucks, ih rollback, and a kenworth straight truck.
here is from today......
and you guys thought tandem axle sleeper cab trucks turned bad, try drivign this setup in the city............ moved it today where it was sitting to 20 miles away to load it, put it back where it was, then have to take it to the northside of chucago saturday morning.
48' bumperpull with the wheels set on the slider ALL the way back
no lights, no brakes, none of that good working stuff.
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/400956/fullsize/dsc00952.jpg
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/400953/fullsize/dsc00949.jpg
side of the busiest freeway in chicago in the morning getting a crane truck
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/400949/fullsize/dsc00945.jpg

m a truck mechanic who drives wrecker, but today i didnt even get to unlock my toolbox, i spent all day in that truck hauling broke ones in, moving that trailer, and doing a pair of service calls on stranded semi's.

I havn't towed a darn thing since the end of February, but hopefully that's all gonna change this week. I just have to hook up the battery and the tranny oil cooler lines in my 'burb and I'll be back on the road.

when I am towing though, I pull a 20' carhauler or my 1978 Glastron ski boat.

Pictures worth a thousand words.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e380/Capt-Ron/Iowa.jpg

Thirty Five foot Newmar Kountry Star fifthwheel, 14,500#.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e380/Capt-Ron/Tractor/Grass_1611.jpg

Twenty Four foot Wells Cargo car hauler that I use as a shop trailer.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e380/Capt-Ron/Tractor/TowingTractor.jpg

Towing my 1957 Ford 960 on a towbar.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e380/Capt-Ron/Tractor/bushhogged_1719.jpg

Had to tow my 6-1/2' X 12' utility trailer 550 miles to Ohio to get this heavy duty Bush Hog on July 4th.


Well, that's all my stuff that I tow.

Old Trucker

OK, I have to ask, what is a heavy duty Bush Hog? :doah:

i tow an 88 Wrangler on 37's.......my play toy

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/88Mangler/Jeep%20and%20Truck%20Flexed/Jeepflex.jpg

here is my haul from saturday. 21,100 pounds.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e23/mnorby/Trucks/staceydmaxtrailer.jpg

another k5 here

OK, I have to ask, what is a heavy duty Bush Hog? :doah:
A bush hog is a big mower that is used with a tractor. It has two heavy blades mounted to a center carrier so that they can pivot and are held out by centrifigal force. Both my bush hogs will cut a 5' width and the heavy duty hog will cut up to 4" trees, which I regularly do.
In the tractor towing picture is the standard bush hog on the 3 point tractor hitch, it weighs 500 lbs. The heavy duty bush hog weighs 900 lbs and is a real beast.

I hope that this answers your question.

Old Trucker

A bush hog is a big mower that is used with a tractor. It has two heavy blades mounted to a center carrier so that they can pivot and are held out by centrifigal force. Both my bush hogs will cut a 5' width and the heavy duty hog will cut up to 4" trees, which I regularly do.
In the tractor towing picture is the standard bush hog on the 3 point tractor hitch, it weighs 500 lbs. The heavy duty bush hog weighs 900 lbs and is a real beast.

I hope that this answers your question.

Old Trucker

Bush Hog is an aftermarket company that makes accessories for tractors and many different types of implements. They make small rotary mowers, as mentioned, to 20+feet wide discs pulled behind 200+HP tractors. I don't like their discs much, kind of light duty. Great mowers, loaders, scrapers though.

I did the edit and the picture came up ok. Thanks for the lesson.

Anyway here's want I'm dragging. The 07 Carriage like this has a GVW of 16,030lbs. I think it has the most carrying capacity of anything out there given its curb weight empty. Thats 2000lbs more than mine. I guess they moved up to 7000lb axles.

http://towrig.com/photos/data/529/HPIM3350.JPG


Dave

I've tried to post the picture here. Can't get it to show in the preview after putting the URL address of the pic in, located on this form. So, I guess click on the link and see if you see what I'm towing.

http://towrig.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/832/cat/529


Dave
Dave, click your link above, then right click on the picture and click on properties, then copy the URL that shows after "Address:" and paste it into the box that pops up after you click the http://towrig.com/forums/images/editor/insertimage.gifbutton.

Seems I just tow old M1008 and M1009's here lately. Going to have a Blazer to tow to Tellico this weekend. Eventualy I will have a trail rig to tow behind my truck, once I put all the pieces together:doah:

I guess I could start, I tow my GM based rock crawler.

Hey I haul one of them things too!

Just a 16 ft car hauler for now.

38 Foot Cedar creek and a 7 x14 pace cargo

You know, those things are bigger than my first apartment. waytogo

we live in it full time and couldnt be happier

we live in it full time and couldnt be happier
Really? Do you have a home camp that it's parked at when your not traveling?

yep we have a place out in texas at lake fork
its my fishing shack, i put a few pics in my gallery here
right now we are in north bama, still a gov. contractor .
we are sort of full timing ut still working, hopefully in dec we are 100% retired so to speak
i have a few things to finish at teh fishing shack to make the aprtment livable
but overall we are in our fiver 365
takes 10 minutes to vacum and clean which leaves 23 hrs and 50 minutes to enjoy life
maybe should have gone bigger but she pulls very nice and has all the comforts of a five star hotel

Very cool.

3 or 4 small cars or 3 large cars of pick ups. I'll haul anythrotfl ing I can get onto my 49 foot wedge!!

Are you using WIFI or DSL to get access to the site?

we live in it full time and couldnt be happier
Ain't that the truth, we're full timers also and have a lot at Lake Royale in NC, NE of Raleigh.
Right now though we're at Short Stay in Moncks Corner, SC and going back to NC on Tuesday. Nice to take the house with you when you travel, much easier than packing clothes and finding a motel to stay in.
We sold the house 2 years ago and I for one don't miss it a bit. When I bought our first camper 3-1/2 years ago we never went back home.
Spent 3 months on the road after selling the house and a month last year since we bought the property in NC and it was to be ready in August so we wanted to get back. This year other than regular trips to SC for Dr's appointments we aren't planning any big trips.

The old lady is already saying that she's going to miss the Minnesota Vikings training camp this year but oh well. She got to go the last 2 years and I'm not really a fan. (I did take a lot of pictures of the cheerleaders, told her they were for my brother).

Where in N. Bama are you? I wasted 5 years of my life in the Muscle Shoals area.

Old Trucker

I use both methods!!!!! WIFI in the laptop and a home PC

Ain't that the truth, we're full timers also and have a lot at Lake Royale in NC, NE of Raleigh.
Right now though we're at Short Stay in Moncks Corner, SC and going back to NC on Tuesday. Nice to take the house with you when you travel, much easier than packing clothes and finding a motel to stay in.
We sold the house 2 years ago and I for one don't miss it a bit. When I bought our first camper 3-1/2 years ago we never went back home.
Spent 3 months on the road after selling the house and a month last year since we bought the property in NC and it was to be ready in August so we wanted to get back. This year other than regular trips to SC for Dr's appointments we aren't planning any big trips.

The old lady is already saying that she's going to miss the Minnesota Vikings training camp this year but oh well. She got to go the last 2 years and I'm not really a fan. (I did take a lot of pictures of the cheerleaders, told her they were for my brother).

Where in N. Bama are you? I wasted 5 years of my life in the Muscle Shoals area.

Old Trucker


we are just south of huntsville in morgan city, I still owrk full time till dec or abouts so i getting the best of both worlds, we live at a campground thats out in the stix, full hookups but not much else cept free wirelsss, thanks to me, i put in a router from teh office so i can surf
we stil have about 5 mohts of work on our home base then its "we are outta here" spend summers there with the grandkids and show them soem good traveling and maybe winter over in south texas with my sister.

I'm pulling a 35' Newmar Kountry Star that weighs 14,500# so my gross is 23,300# with full fuel, tools and butts. I have a 50 gal aux tank in the bed and a 3.73 axle in my 2003 F-350 CC, 6.0L, 6sp man trans, DRW, LWB.
Headed back to NC in the morning.

How's that Tow Boss on fuel with that ratio? I get ~11 mpg with the trailer but I have a heavy foot and run 80 mph when I can get away with it. Empty I can get 18 mpg around town.

BTW, I used to operate a towboat pushing barges on the Tennessee River between Yellow Creek, Ms and Decatur, Al. back in 1992. Also ran a dinner boat out of Florence named the Alabama Princess before that.

Old Trucker

I'm pulling a 35' Newmar Kountry Star that weighs 14,500# so my gross is 23,300# with full fuel, tools and butts. I have a 50 gal aux tank in the bed and a 3.73 axle in my 2003 F-350 CC, 6.0L, 6sp man trans, DRW, LWB.
Headed back to NC in the morning.

How's that Tow Boss on fuel with that ratio? I get ~11 mpg with the trailer but I have a heavy foot and run 80 mph when I can get away with it. Empty I can get 18 mpg around town.

BTW, I used to operate a towboat pushing barges on the Tennessee River between Yellow Creek, Ms and Decatur, Al. back in 1992. Also ran a dinner boat out of Florence named the Alabama Princess before that.

Old Trucker

we get a very solid 11 dragging here at 75 ish to 78ish
empty i might bust 16 occasionally, you got a heavy load for them 3.73's
i was very surprised we hit 23800, it felt like 5k, stys on cruise most of the time .
funny thing is pulling my 7x14 cargo we get 10

I just parked on my lot in NC about an hour ago and the 3.73 does well and I run cruise in OD all the time.
Takes me 4 hours to get the 260 miles up here.

sounds like its time for a cold one, 98 here now down from 100 yesterday
I sure do lik emy two a/c units, nice and frosty inside. :D

Picked up a 14' Snake River dump trailer yesterday. Dual 7000# axles. Sweet rig, pulls like a dream. And whatever I want to put in it!