Re: O/T Gooseneck Trailers

Posted by jdemaris on April 23, 2005 at 20:28:56 from (209.23.30.245):

In Reply to: O/T Gooseneck Trailers posted by Matt_In on April 23, 2005 at 19:52:00:

I don't have any advice, but I'm interested in the same thing. I've got a receiver hitch and a 8000 lb. trailer. I use is for farm tractors and a few small crawlers I have. I've been paying to get my bigger stuff hauled. Just recently I called the guy I usually use that had a big International straight truck with a tilt-bed. I wanted to hire him to bring my relatively small backhoe up to some land I have in the Adirondacks for the summer. It weighs around 11,000 lbs. He told me he got rid of his big truck and now does his hauling with a F350 and a gooseneck trailer. So, it got me thinking. I've got a F250 Ford, 8600 lbs. GVRW with 6.9 diesel. So, instead of paying $350 every time I need to haul the hoe, maybe I'm better off getting a gooseneck trailer myself? I've got three other trucks with Chevy 6.2 diesels, which I love - got almost 500,000 miles on one of them - but they are too underpowered to pull that kind of weight up mountain roads. I'm justing wondering how safe I'm going to be (or feel) pulling a load over 10,000 lbs. I've got an Allis Chalmers HD4 dozer, a Deere 1010 crawler/loader, and an Allis Chalmers HD6 I'd like to move once in awhile also. I suspect my other two hoes are to way to heavy - my Pettibone Mulithoe weighs 16,000 lbs. and my Case 580CK ??

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