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whats the most you tow with your 3500

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Evan

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most ive towed is our 580 case backhoe my truck used to do it on regualr basis.

trailer and backhoe weigh 24,000 sometimes alittler more depneding on what buckets are being brought with the hoe

gross weight with the truck is 32000. i get axled out crossing the scales at ports

thats 3500 02 dodge dualy with the quad cab. and the auto tranny has somehow survived.

i know its to much for pickup but we do it all the time, big towing duties are no left for the new 6.7 and it does get up and go with the hoe on its back.


Evan
 
Wow, please work on grammar and spelling.


Never crossed any scales, but I had 3,000 lbs of concrete in the bed of the truck and my horse trailer with a large load of lumber (included 500 ceder fence panels). I've never seen my truck squat that bad before, nor the tires on my trailer bulge that bad. That tells me I must have been well above 20,000 lbs gross. I know how the truck/trailer handles at 20k, and it was telling me I had a LOT more weight than that. I'd guess 25k at least.
 
trouttrooper said:
Wow, please work on grammar and spelling.


Never crossed any scales, but I had 3,000 lbs of concrete in the bed of the truck and my horse trailer with a large load of lumber (included 500 ceder fence panels). I've never seen my truck squat that bad before, nor the tires on my trailer bulge that bad. That tells me I must have been well above 20,000 lbs gross. I know how the truck/trailer handles at 20k, and it was telling me I had a LOT more weight than that. I'd guess 25k at least.
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:D You get used to it after reading it for years on Off-Road.com's BBS.

Hey Evan, I saw your BHAF & Silencer ring threads, thanks for coming over here and sharing those with us.

Since I don't have a 3500 I'll :secret: go back into hiding.
 
83gmck2500

i was wondering where you were and if you had the same handle over here.

cool to see a few heavy haulers over here.

i think anything past 15k is realy to much for 3500 but we do it and the load realy moves the truck around. realy the load drives you and you have to realy be on your game even with good brakkes and trailers designed for the load.

Evan
 
32k GCVW. Tri-axle goose-neck with a loaded 20ft seacan container. Can you say brick on wheels. Used to overheat running into a head wind even with temps close to freezing. Since the install of the V2 w/ fan I only hear the factory fan on long grades with a headwind and 75+ temps
 
When I used to work for an irrigation company, they had a 96 Ram 3500 12-Valve/5-speed 4x4 with a steel flatbed that pulled a 40' gooseneck around. It's primary function was delivering and stringing PVC pipe, I think the deck of the trailer was 34' long + the 6' neck. The combo was licensed for 26k but it unfortunately, often times, saw way more than that. When we ran low on steel pipe it would make treks for more 40' long sections of BSP. While I was there it's heaviest load was probably a small 3 tower center pivot, brand new & disassembled. The trailer was equipped with Range F/12-ply tires from STA, 12-16.5LT, almost looked like short super singles under the trailer.
 
Heaviest dad's 92 saw was around 21K combo.

Picture a C3500HD with 6 cornhead row units on (just units, no frame, auger, throat, etc. 6R30" complete heads weigh about 3K lbs) that weighed together around 2K, plus a 20ft bumper pull with a 8R30 cornhead that weighed around 4K(head only), and a receiver behind that trailer that had a roughly 5K lb 4-5 Flex King undercutter (blade plow) so that is around 11K worth of equip.

Plus a 15K gross C3500HD with a crawler-ready bed (super heavy built, slight dovetail, called crawler beds back west) so about 8K truck, 2 K trailer, so 10K combo, plus the 11K of equip, so the grand total comes to 21K...and it might be more or less, this is just a rough estimate.
 
Yep, Any trailer here over 10,001 LBS requires a CDL. Minunum fine is $600, just ask my brother inlaw :(

I'm plated at 32k, been just under a few times, my next trailer will have disc brakes for the extra stopping power, but otherwise the dually pulls and stops well.
 
blizzardplowman said:
Yep, Any trailer here over 10,001 LBS requires a CDL. Minunum fine is $600, just ask my brother inlaw :(

I'm plated at 32k, been just under a few times, my next trailer will have disc brakes for the extra stopping power, but otherwise the dually pulls and stops well.
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Im under the belief that is only if you are towing a trailer weighing more than 10,000 # for commercial purposes. I dont see anything on the DOT site to lead me to beleive otherwise, I would guess the cop was retarded and didnt know the law himself, however I may be wrong, although I have a CDL already and circumvent all these laws anyway by just keeping dual-purpose farm plates on my truck.

Thats a good way to legal run class B plates on a HD truck, that way whenever your towing somthing and anybody gives you crap you just say its for the farm and you are rated for 10,000 on the truck then.
 
farm plates on the entire fleet here! works well, and we have yet to be questioned about it, although we seem to get less looks having single wheel bumper pulls, rather than dually goosenecks, that helps too.
 
yeah i dont know the rules but thought it was 26001 , ive got class A combination tractor trailer, pickup registerd for 34000 dump truck is 80. ive got one ticket for 7k over in the dump truck grrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Z79outlaw said:
Im under the belief that is only if you are towing a trailer weighing more than 10,000 # for commercial purposes. I dont see anything on the DOT site to lead me to beleive otherwise, I would guess the cop was retarded and didnt know the law himself, however I may be wrong, although I have a CDL already and circumvent all these laws anyway by just keeping dual-purpose farm plates on my truck.

Thats a good way to legal run class B plates on a HD truck, that way whenever your towing somthing and anybody gives you crap you just say its for the farm and you are rated for 10,000 on the truck then.
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Thats what I thought:sad:ANY trailer tagged over 10,001 is considered commercial. Per the DOT in Madison. BIL's trailer was a skidloader trailer w/ 12k plates, at the time he was not in biz, just moving his skid loader from FIL's house back home.
 
You know I have pondering this myself since the federal DOT stuff came out. In Ohio on the back of your license it states verbatem:

A. Any comb. of vehs. of GVWR of 26,001 lbs or more; GVWR towed veh(s) in excess of 10,000 lbs.

B. Any single veh. with GVWR of 26,001 lbs or more: or towing a veh. not in excess of 10,000 lbs.

But asking numorous troppers, I cant get any answers. The biggest thing that I worry about is pulling a 25,000 GVWR gooseneck don't know if I am legal or not. I have a CDL but it is a class B.

I know I didnt help any but that is my .02
 
Heaviest mine ever saw was a 3td7 @ approximately 34K by itself.... though I don't wanna do that again.........EVER......you already know what trailer and truck I run........... mine grunts on long, steep, hills with my hoe behind it, but on normal grades or flat road it'll cruise @ an easy lope of 65-75 depending on the speedzone. My g/n has Kelsey axles with disc brakes by the way, with a dexter electric over hydraulic pump, stopping is not a problem.
 
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