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Re: hauling costs??
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Posted by the tractor vet on April 08, 2005 at 11:17:45 from (4.124.88.59):
In Reply to: Re: hauling costs?? posted by dej(JED) on April 08, 2005 at 09:18:38:
And BTW you take a new one tonand pull a trailer with everyday haulen loads that max it out and see just how long it will last. been there and done that and it is a darn good thing that i am a mechanic because you could not afford to have a dealer be fixen it all the time. Just like plowen snow , people thought that i was way to high but when ya figure in the upkeep pre year you just bearly made out for 19 years of snow plowening i watched guys come and go after the first year and here comes someone else that can do it cheeper and by the time snow season was over you were doing some of theirs because they broke down and could not afford to replace that ft. rearend that they blew out or that transmission that they burt up . And the big thing that people don't realize is that it takes Iron to haul iron and vary few spec . there trucks out to do the job that they intend to do with it if you are going to pull a freight box then any old truck will get the job done but if you are going to pull a lowboy and haul big ugly heavy stuff then spec. have to change same for a 3/4 ton or 1 ton and ya just don't buy them off the lots and as far as fuel milage it is a whole differant ball game as to what you will get with the differant loads . Haulen a tractor with no cab will do better then one with and just watch what happens when you load a combine and it only weighs 20000 lbs you will think you have 100000 on the deck and add a littel breeze on top and you will be hoppen for a nother 150 hp.and be thankful if ya get 4 mpg. I bought a nice littel Gleaner E 3 with a two row corn head and a nice 10 grain head and it fit so nice on my 28 foot gooseneck behind my 88 ford 1 ton and it only weight around 8000 lbs that truck always got around 10-12 mpg loaded boughtit out near Plymouth Ind. and was bringing it back to eastern ohio that nite the wind was out of the east and from Plymouth to Ft. Wayne it took 29 gal of gas and bearly made Beaver Dam and it was a good thing that the one gas statino was open in Crestline then again at Dalton and toped the tank off in Canton and two weeks before i brought a 1066 with duals and weights along with a 806 with duals and weights from Forest Ill. and never used half as much fuel and was way overloaded .
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