just out of curiosity how much does that volvo loader and trailer weigh together? i am currently looking at purchasing a 5 to 6 ton excavator and am trying to figure out if my 2500hd dozer-max could pull it.
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Originally Posted by mossman381
I got an idea. Sell your truck and get a prius. Then you can make all the tree hugging girls hearts skip a beat while they can't even hear you drive by.
just out of curiosity how much does that volvo loader and trailer weigh together? i am currently looking at purchasing a 5 to 6 ton excavator and am trying to figure out if my 2500hd dozer-max could pull it.
The loader was around 11k and my trailer is 7800lb. Pulled at 60-70mph for about 80 miles no problem.
I got an idea. Sell your truck and get a prius. Then you can make all the tree hugging girls hearts skip a beat while they can't even hear you drive by.
Putting my plow back in storage a couple months ago after dragging it out to prep it for this season. 3hrs of welding and straightening and it's good to go again.
I havn't even gotten to use it yet, changed the oil in it last night (what a pita) and now it's sitting. If we get it out one of these days I'll grab a couple pics.
Looks like you have a lot of fun with that pick up! Love all the pics of the farming stuff. I milk at a dairy my buddy owns, farming is always an adventure.
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Looks like you have a lot of fun with that pick up! Love all the pics of the farming stuff. I milk at a dairy my buddy owns, farming is always an adventure.
The pickup sure gets used for just about anything I can get it to do. A lot of the times I'm pretty sure it hates its life but so far it's doing pretty well.
Farming is definitely always an adventure, once day that goes according to plan and everything works out well should give you a pretty good clue that things won't go that smoothly again for a while.
how much higher did your truck get from being fully cranked. Some of my family is telling me not put on the lift because they cant get into a almost fully cranked truck on 33's. How much on a scale of 1-10 did your ride quality increase.
Also I like the black stockers.
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05 LLY duramax "clifford"
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Originally Posted by mossman381
I got an idea. Sell your truck and get a prius. Then you can make all the tree hugging girls hearts skip a beat while they can't even hear you drive by.
how much higher did your truck get from being fully cranked. Some of my family is telling me not put on the lift because they cant get into a almost fully cranked truck on 33's. How much on a scale of 1-10 did your ride quality increase.
Also I like the black stockers.
I think I gained around 2" over what it was fully cranked. When I put the lift on I turned the tbars all the way back down and pretty much left them there.
On a scale of 1-10 I'd rate the ride quality and handling characteristics increase about a 15 over when the truck was cranked up. I do notice myself climbing into the bed of the truck more to get stuff out of my toolbox or out of the bed then I did before the lift. I used to be able to reach more. However I'm not overly tall either, about 5'8"
Edit. I liked the stock wheels before but the lamination coating was coming off and they were trashed so I didn't have much of a choice other then to clean them up the best I could and paint them. Their growing on me but I can't say I like them more then before.
ok thanks. Looks like i might just have to get one of those go rhino style steps to help my 5'1" sister, my 5'3 sister, and my 5'3 mother get into it. My 5'7 dad would probably struggle, but me being the oddball at 5'11 i think i could get into it either way.
Thanks for the input.
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05 LLY duramax "clifford"
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Originally Posted by mossman381
I got an idea. Sell your truck and get a prius. Then you can make all the tree hugging girls hearts skip a beat while they can't even hear you drive by.
ok thanks. Looks like i might just have to get one of those go rhino style steps to help my 5'1" sister, my 5'3 sister, and my 5'3 mother get into it. My 5'7 dad would probably struggle, but me being the oddball at 5'11 i think i could get into it either way.
Thanks for the input.
A bunch of my friends have Ford Superduty's that sit around the same height as my truck. About half them don't have steps on their trucks, what a pita for me to get in. Definitely wouldn't want to be climbing in and out of one all the time with no steps.
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