Bringing home a big tool

ObsoElitist · Sep 18, 2015

Hyster, weighs 6 tons, in San Diego 500 miles from home. The LA smog sucks, but at least I am out of the smoke for a few days

JMS/.MN · Sep 19, 2015

At least if the truck craps out, you can load it on the trailer, lift the trailer with the Hyster, and head on hone!

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Sep 19, 2015

It has been so long ago I do not remember it's exact size, but I used to drive one about that size where I worked at our telecom ware house. It was a good old rig, but had a lot of oil leaks that we could not get them to fix. Just a few weeks after the big Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska some of the upper management from district came down for a tour, and sometime between the walk though by local management and the big shot tour a sign appeared on the side of the Hyster that read "Contel Valdez". Nothing was ever said about it, but a week later the oil leaks and brakes were repaired.

matthies · Sep 19, 2015

What model I might have a manual for it that you can have. chris

Chris(WA) · Sep 20, 2015

I can only imagine how far over weight that is for that trailer and its tires...

Traditional Farmer · Sep 20, 2015

Yea that appears to be a 7,000 lb gross trailer.

ObsoElitist · Sep 20, 2015

It is a mid 70s 6 ton Miller. Last fall it got all new brakes, bearings, drums, wheels, 10 ply bias tires, 12k winch, leaf springs, rewired and converted from gravity tilt to full hydraulic, with a new 4 foot foredeck. Last week it got new decking and all welds were inspected. I was told the Hyster was 5 tons, but when Imgot there the guynsaid it weighs 6 tons.. With the weight of the trailer in its load rating I may be a ton over, but that is well within the designers safety factor and I dont have to go through scales with a pickup doing the towing.

It towed well 100 miles from LA to San Diego, and in a week or so whe I go home I will see how it does on the Grapevine on that 500 mile run back into the Sierras

bill mart · Sep 20, 2015

what year dodge? Bill

ObsoElitist · Sep 20, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:06:15 09/20/15) what year dodge? Bill

I have had it a month, an upgrade from an 85 F250 4x4 diesel.
This is a 92 W350 LE, , one ton dually 4x4, diesel, 5 speed. I adjusted the pump a bit and woke up the engine, my primary use for the truck is hauling, not commuting. I have removed 20 Lbs of bad wiring and am halfway done rewiring it my way.
This truck has 3 times the engine, and twice the brakes and suspension as the old one. I got a deal on it, sold my Ford for enough to pay for the truck and a new set of Firestones.

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