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Going tomorrow to retrieve this load:
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Moved 4 - 5 cords of large oak rounds home today, and she did a great job. The guy at the trailer place had no idea how to set up my brake controller, so I had to figure that out on my own, but I have a good handle on that now. My truck definitely struggles to get up hills will the trailer loaded, but I can deal with that, for now. Handling and stopping is fantastic, compared to my years of brakeless and surge brake trailers.
Moving another 3 cords tomorrow, mixed oak and ash.
Moving another 3 cords tomorrow, mixed oak and ash.
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I've been ending my burn season in March, the last few years, and just letting the oil-fired boiler handle the spring shoulder season. Between that, and switching from Jotuls to BKs, I have my wood usage down under 6 cords per year! So, yes, this is more than a year's worth in one haul. Two days cutting this spring netted about 4 cords of oak, each day, thanks to the trees being fairly large diameter and easily accessible.
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7000# GTWR, minus 1845 curb weight, so 5155 lb. payload. Physically, it's 2.2 cords to the top rail. So given I'm almost always hauling oak, I'm running out of weight rating before I'm running out of space. Unfortunately, my truck is too light, so that's next on the list.
You have a lot of hills to deal with in your area ? I hear you completely on the truck. Once you go bigger than a typical 1/2 ton for work and towing it's hard to go back.
Nice trailer
The Appalachian mountains are about an hour away, so we're in the foot hills. Luckily, I'm only doing local hauling (not highway speeds) with heavy loads firewood.
I wanted a manual trans when I bought this truck in 2005, and wasn't doing any real heavy hauling (just a 1000# sailboat), so I had to settle for the 4.7L V8 to get the manual trans. Great for driving in bad weather, but a little light for hauling a trailer this heavy. The next truck will be a 3/4 ton, but I'll have to deal with this rig for the next year or two before I'm ready to pull the trigger on that.
I wanted a manual trans when I bought this truck in 2005, and wasn't doing any real heavy hauling (just a 1000# sailboat), so I had to settle for the 4.7L V8 to get the manual trans. Great for driving in bad weather, but a little light for hauling a trailer this heavy. The next truck will be a 3/4 ton, but I'll have to deal with this rig for the next year or two before I'm ready to pull the trigger on that.
With no intentions of turning this into a truck thread...the 4.7 in a full size, heavy beast of a 4 x 4 truck is just too light in my opinion. Heck, the truck alone weighs in at around 6000 pounds.
That doesn't take anything away from the trailer though. That is still one sweet rig.
That doesn't take anything away from the trailer though. That is still one sweet rig.
The 4.7L is fine for tooling around town, thanks to the M6 and 3.90 rear. It even does okay on the highway, until you hitch a trailer to it.
When I want to go fast, I drive my sedan, which has a 6.4 liter Hemi.
When I want to go fast, I drive my sedan, which has a 6.4 liter Hemi.
How tall are the sides on that trailer?
I had a same year truck with same 6spd and 4.7, it did great for what it was. Pulling small loads and i hauled a quad more miles than i care to think.
But I've left that behind, with current trailer i was making my half ton hemi struggle so i upgraded to a cummins with 6 speed manual. It's stock and doesn't care what i have behind it.
I had a same year truck with same 6spd and 4.7, it did great for what it was. Pulling small loads and i hauled a quad more miles than i care to think.
But I've left that behind, with current trailer i was making my half ton hemi struggle so i upgraded to a cummins with 6 speed manual. It's stock and doesn't care what i have behind it.
I tell you what, now that I have an F250 I don't know how I survived driving the half-tons all those years loaded down with the bumper scraping the ground.
Yeah, next truck will be a 2500, but this is what I have for now. Bought it new for cash, when I was just a grad school student, and it served its purpose, at the time.
Sides on trailer are about 24" high. Railing around 30".
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Sides on trailer are about 24" high. Railing around 30".
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