CMNTMXR81 wants to see towing pictures

Jpshostr · July 23, 2002

Some of these are old, some are new. I'm showing every picture I have of our truck towing, with a short explanation next to each, whether or not is working the truck or not.

Just today I hauled two of our wagons to the other farm in preparation for combining oats. No, we don't haul two at a time loaded. It is a cool pic though, and yes, it is a train.

Just hauled another load of fat cattle to market today as well. This isn't just a heavy load, but the cargo is always moving as well!

Occasionally during the fall we will haul a load of grain to town with the truck. The gross combined weight for this truck and wagon, with the wagon 3/4 full, was 29,500lbs.

Every morning we tow the hayrack around with the show steers tied to it for exercise, about a mile for each.

Our feed comes from the mill in a town about seven miles away, we take our auger wagon up there once-twice a week to get a load of feed. Approx. weight, 2-4 tons, depending on the mix.

Yes, I know this isn't much of a load, but we use the truck to transport our rake between hay fields and farms due to its high speed.

Since we own the round baler with dad's cousin, it gets transported between the two farms quite often throughout the summer. Here I just brought it back from the shop where it got checked over.

Yes, I take my camera with me to the field and in the truck almost all the time now. Everytime I hitch up to something different, I'll take a picture and add it to this thread.

SilveradoWV · July 23, 2002

Do you run into any issues of not having a liceanse on stuff, or does that qualify as a farm use type thing??? I assume you are on road part of the time?

Jpshostr · July 23, 2002

Do you run into any issues of not having a liceanse on stuff, or does that qualify as a farm use type thing??? I assume you are on road part of the time?

Implements of husbandry (basically, a fancy word for offroad equipment) are exempt from all license laws, no need for plates on anything in these pictures except the truck and gooseneck. They machines are designed for and used off road, but the use of roads is required to move from field to field, farm to farm. Laws have been passed that allow free passage of implements, tractors, combines, sprayers, and so on full use of roads.

pacodiablo · July 23, 2002

u guys compete too much. yes farm trucks do a lot of work, but so do city trucks. need proof? ill get some pics of my cousin's trucks if i can find them.

CMNTMXR81 · July 23, 2002

These pictures are the only ones that I see the truck actually having to CARRY the weight of the load...NOT just pull it.

Otherwise the rest of them are the equivalent of me pulling the Tahoe on the ground itself (without the trailer), simply dragging it along. H*ll, an S-10 would be able to do that!!!

Now I gotta go out and finish washing and detailing my truck.

fennsz · July 23, 2002

pacodiablo, I don't think any city truck gets even a 10th of the work a farm truck gets. Yes maybe once a year there is a true load on a city truck, but nothing like the heavy machinery a farm gets day in and day out. I remember pulling the bumper clean off my grandpa's '79 chevy pulling two loaded hay wagons. We welded it back on and were back at pulling wagons and anything else. Don't compete with the farmers when it comes to working your truck unless maybe if you are using it for construction.

OhioPlowboy · July 23, 2002

Wake up fellas. That round baler hooked to the truck? Yeah, those are sorta tongue heavy. I am sure jp can pull other implements out if his and his dads shed to put a little more load on the truck. It is common place to pull 2 loaded wagons out of the FIELD, up onto the road and to the bins with our pickup. All depends on what you need to do and how fast you need it done;We are making a living out here remember.(Too bad CBOT hammered us today, rain wont help any now.) A farm truck is like a field office, wouldnt you agree jp? As for your Tahoe, no offense man, but I have a Cub Cadet 102 garden tractor that will pull it around, trailer included.

Now, as for why jp wants to haul wagons with his pickup when he can drive the ultimate bab magnet, a 7220 Magnum, we will never know Maybe I will get some picks of my buddies S10 hauling a 1840 Case skidloader sometime. Catch yall later, gotta get the praire maggots ready for the state fair.

CMNTMXR81 · July 23, 2002

Wake up fellas. That round baler hooked to the truck? Yeah, those are sorta tongue heavy. I am sure jp can pull other implements out if his and his dads shed to put a little more load on the truck. It is common place to pull 2 loaded wagons out of the FIELD, up onto the road and to the bins with our pickup. All depends on what you need to do and how fast you need it done;We are making a living out here remember.(Too bad CBOT hammered us today, rain wont help any now.) A farm truck is like a field office, wouldnt you agree jp? As for your Tahoe, no offense man, but I have a Cub Cadet 102 garden tractor that will pull it around, trailer included.

Now, as for why jp wants to haul wagons with his pickup when he can drive the ultimate bab magnet, a 7220 Magnum, we will never know Maybe I will get some picks of my buddies S10 hauling a 1840 Case skidloader sometime. Catch yall later, gotta get the praire maggots ready for the state fair.

FYI, I'm busting JP's chops cause he likes to pick on us city folk for our garage queens (although mine isn't simply because it doesn't fit ).

I'm sure your Cub Cadet could pull my Tahoe around. My little S-10 Blazer did once! My Polaris ATV did as well as my 66 Pontiac Catalina and I'm sure my Crapsman lawn tractor could too. Hmmm, that gives me an idea.

OhioPlowboy · July 23, 2002

HAHA,

I know you're just messin with Jp, and I know he doesnt mean any hard feelings back at ya, nor do I. I apologize for my spelling, its been a long week and i did not get much sleep last night. Speaking of the truck pulling pulling the hay rake, my DUMB@$$! ( ) ag teacher tried raking some hay with his aerostar van, until he got hay wrapped around the driveshaft and smoked the Ujoints. I personally rake with my 4X4 fourwheeler. Theres nothing harder on a truck though, in my humble opinion than spraying with one. Throw 500 gal. of water and chemicals into the bed of a truck and take off across a rough no tilled field at 10-11-12 mph. It does get hard on things quick. Luckily, most spray booms are 40-60' wide, at least on pickup sprayers, our Co-op has a 120' wide rogator. Another thing is, we dont pull those wagons at highway speeds, although our wagons have cement truck tires on them so we can go 20 or so mph with them loaded, and they do have lights and surge brakes. jp, can you dig up a picture and post it of a 740/744 brent wagon?? Local guy here pulls one loaded to the gills with his Dodge Cummins, 6 spd, though we are on fairly level ground.

OhioPlowboy · July 23, 2002

Hey I agree with you on the field office . You got to do what cha gotta do even if it is with a 3/4 ton 350 pickup .

As for the babe magnet I think that would be Green - Yellow instead of red.

Those are fightin words, man My blood is red, not green with envy ;)

Besides,whats a sweeter sound than a DT-436 at full song pulling a 9 shank chisel on a crystal clear winter night, when the ground just froze enough to drive on???? Can we say "Straight Pipe"???

Ok, maybe the same DT 436 in the 1566 hooked to a pulling sled.....yeah, that would be pretty sweet.

MarkD · July 23, 2002

I remember pulling the bumper clean off my grandpa's '79 chevy pulling two loaded hay wagons. We welded it back on and were back at pulling wagons and anything else.

You mean like this?

fennsz · July 24, 2002

something like that, we still used the original bumper and our tailgate had dents, but not quite as bad. That is a nice looking truck though. Definately worked. My personal truck has pulled hay wagons, grain drills, etc... you name it, but I am very picky and it doesn't have a scratch on it. Just the other day I had straw bales stacked as twice the height of the truck, I'll try to get the pic, I took one.