I have a bobcat and mini excavator bisness my truck is a 2003 d-max with 4"exsaust, gauges, s&b cold air and a triple dog set at performance. I use a 26' goosenck tandem float do u guy think my truck would be okay with the excavator and the bobcat on the float. The excavator is a KX91-3 it weights about 7800lbs and the bobcat is a 773 turbo i don't know what it weighs. The sticker on the trailer says its good for 14k second question how much power do u think i will make with those mods. Thanks waytogo
That a lot of weight, you are in the land of class a cdl with that. If you have a dually I would pull it, with a srw may be tough to get the pin weight of the trailer to an acceptable amount. I pulled about 21k with my 06 Dmax with out a problem (48ft enclosed 2 car trailer LOADED) and mine was stock. Is your trailer a dual tandem trailer?
i have an AZ and drive a big truck every day in the winter the trailer is a tandem axle single wheel gooseneck
Sorry to thread jack but i am in the same predicament and dont feel the need to start a new thread. Anyways..... A light duty (6lug) Chevy 2500 4x4 5spd with the 350 pulling a 1984 Chevy regular cab long bed with a 6.5l turbo diesel and 4x4. Would you think this truck would be capable of towing this rig for 12hrs? Once again sorry to threadjack
you should be just fine, take it east on the hills...i have done 36000 total truck, trailer, load a few times flad ground no problem, but hills yes you feel it back there just take your time....
I got a chance to get a Komatsu D31 bulldozer and a really good price, it wieghs in at 16,000lbs its about 550 miles from my location. I am considering getting this and do some dozer work in my area. I know I would need a dual axle trailer 20k rating. But do I need to go with the 2500 or a 3500 for towing it around?? I am only looking at do some jobs with in a 75 mile radius of my place. Any thoughts, got to have me a plan once I leave over here and come back home permanetly, part of my plan is spending alot of time fishing and goofing off 75% the other is having to do something productive 25% of the time.
Your truck will pull it Fine , However you will over 26,001 pounds which is CDL territory and if its Buisness related hauling your more apt to be pulled over by your freindly local DOT officer . you 'd be close to 40,000 pounds GVW Big trouble if you get caught
Hmm ok that has me thinking I need to reconsider this line of work. Think I will have to look for smaller bulldozer,
Not that it matters, but I pulled about 15k on a 99 SRW Ram 4x4 just the other day (6,200# trailer, 8,500# load.) The truck pulled fine, the only problem I had was that it was loaded front heavy when I got there, we had to shift the load around a little. It was still a lot to pull with the truck, but it did it.) I even rolled through a scale with it on, the DOT just rolled me over the scale and greenlighted me. Lucky? probably...
That trailer will not handle that kind of weight!!!! 14K is the total weight. Trailer and load. You could haul them one at a time. Try hauling them both and you will blow out a tire, bend an axle, and end up in the ditch in a flaming pile of wreckage.
what about being able to stop? I have had a run a way with my 2005 pulling 6K and that is something I dont ever want to relive.
my brakes were just fine. The newer CDTs are so efficent at getting air through them and I have got a cold air intake, new intake manifold, and removed the muffler. The nature of the beast also contributed to the problem since there are not throttle plates to block the air flow when the throttle is closed coupled with high compression the air acts like a spring on top of the pistions then the drive wheels motor the engine. I pulled the grade in 6th gear most of the time on the way up and assumed that 5th gear would be fine on the way down. The truck and trailer went right to 89 mph in a heart beat. This is my third diesel but has the best air flow and I learned to drive in the Mountains of Wyoming and have pulled trailers with all three trucks and it was the first time it had happened to me. A friend of mine hates to come off of a pass with his truck and trailer with an automatice, he puts his in second gear and prays all the way down. I had hearded of inexpearenced drivers refusing to bring a load off of the Grapevine in CA and it is a 5% grade now I understand. I now drop at least two gears going down from what I made the climb. But before I pull another trailer from PA to WY I will have an exhaust brake.
i have driven grape vine MANY times and for that pass and every other pass in Cali on I-5 and I-8 i LOVE my exhaust brake...
