What is everyone towing? And don't say a trailer :doah: What is on your trailer... boat, car, camper, bobcat etc..
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 imp: 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.
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.
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
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. side of the busiest freeway in chicago in the morning getting a crane truck 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. Thirty Five foot Newmar Kountry Star fifthwheel, 14,500#. Twenty Four foot Wells Cargo car hauler that I use as a shop trailer. Towing my 1957 Ford 960 on a towbar. 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