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Unlike most of this forum's members (present company excluded, of course), farmers understand their towing needs before buying their trucks.
Naw, they's just a buncha hicks.
I see were not far apart. I used to haul rice down to Bunge (back when it was PIRMI) and still have trailer related repairs done at DC Trailer and Woodland Draper. I have friends in Esparto (don't tell) and get down there every couple months to visit.
Many of the "Can I tow this?" threads I've seen do mention that one of applications that will not exceed payload limitations and be able to reach max towing rating are flat towed trailers like you see on farms. However most F-150s are used by home owners like myself or businesses and the forum threads tend to reflect this.
Yep pointed this out many many times myself and I believe also mentioned it in the read this towing thread I created to answer most if not all tow related questions for trailer buyers.
I pulled my enclosed trailer from eastern NC to eastern Iowa in July for my move. Roughly 7500lbs. Had to use 4x4 up a gravel road too. It was kind of wash boarded, and that much weight hopping and spinning tires breaks stuff. I see lots of half ton trucks pulling 2 grain wagons around here. The difference is I don't see them on the highway.
When I picked my up mine it was sitting on the showroom floor after waiting almost 4 months for delivery. I thought to myself, dang that one good looking farm truck. Back when I was young 1/2 ton regular cab trucks were the norm around a farm. Most were not 4X4s though. The bigger farmers had 3/4 ton regular cab trucks. Most though were 8' beds in both cases.
When I picked my up mine it was sitting on the showroom floor after waiting almost 4 months for delivery. I thought to myself, dang that one good looking farm truck. Back when I was young 1/2 ton regular cab trucks were the norm around a farm. Most were not 4X4s though. The bigger farmers had 3/4 ton regular cab trucks. Most though were 8' beds in both cases.
Mike
Man I grew up on a dairy farm in the sticks and the majority of the guys had half ton trucks and worked them harder than most people work their F350 nowadays. You should have seen the loads we routinely hauled with a 76 F150. I am talking about 30 foot flat beds made out of a single wifewtrailer frame (no brakes) stacked two high with round bales. I'm. Not saying they weren't over worked but to hear half the people now you need an F350 dually diesel to haul you pop up once a year.
Man I grew up on a dairy farm in the sticks and the majority of the guys had half ton trucks and worked them harder than most people work their F350 nowadays. You should have seen the loads we routinely hauled with a 76 F150. I am talking about 30 foot flat beds made out of a single wifewtrailer frame (no brakes) stacked two high with round bales. I'm. Not saying they weren't over worked but to hear half the people now you need an F350 dually diesel to haul you pop up once a year.
Quite a difference between a farm truck "pulling" a hay wagon, at no more than 45 MPH if they are brave(dumb) enough, and towing a 10K pound RV trailer with 13% of the weight sitting on the bumper. I live in farm country myself and know what they pull, and believe me, no sane person would have a gooseneck round bale trailer hooked to a 1/2 ton. Plenty of 4 on the floor trailers hauling hay, grain, corn and grain heads, and fertilizer tanks behind half tons, but have not seen any of those guys trying to haul a large gooseneck with one, they get the big truck out for that.
01-09-2019, 07:04 AM
