Found this truck, I hate the color but....
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Found this truck, I hate the color but....
For the price it isnt bad. has avg miles, but is VERY clean. I saw it in person today on a local run. Kinda makes me want to get out the checkbook........
2000 Ford F350 4x4 Duelly
2000 Ford F350 4x4 Duelly
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I love duallies. I couldnt live with a 3/4 ton or even a single rear 1 ton. Id break it in less than a month. With what I haul all the time, and how much better they perform towing, youll NEVER get me out of one.
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How much longer do you think it will last than your current truck? Thats the only deciding factor I would take into it. If its not that much id either save the money for breakdowns or spend it to make it tow even better.
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How would you break it?
My dad and haul our 26' livestock trailer full to the brim. occassionally you go for a ride all over the road, but neither one of us have ever wrecked or broken anything.
We also have a bumper 21' flatbed trailer that i use to hual hay. just last week i was backing the whole rig over foot deep frozen ruts. no problems yet.
My dad and haul our 26' livestock trailer full to the brim. occassionally you go for a ride all over the road, but neither one of us have ever wrecked or broken anything.
We also have a bumper 21' flatbed trailer that i use to hual hay. just last week i was backing the whole rig over foot deep frozen ruts. no problems yet.
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For the price it isnt bad. has avg miles, but is VERY clean. I saw it in person today on a local run. Kinda makes me want to get out the checkbook........
2000 Ford F350 4x4 Duelly
2000 Ford F350 4x4 Duelly
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Cow milker, click on the blue link on the bottom of my posts. This is just a normal load for me. I have a backhoe and another bigger trackhoe that go onto a big goosneck, plus I have a smaller 10 ton goosneeck thats 40 foot long. When I put anything heavy behind my brothers 1 ton single rear to head to the job site, it has severe side to side lash with the bumper trailer in the pic. I can run 65 all day long in my dually like its a walk in the park. I HAVE to have the extra stability. Plus its rated for more capacity. That trackhoe weighs about 13k plus, and the loader weighs about 6500, and the trailer weighs about 4k. Hook up to that with a srw 350 with a class 5 hitch and it WILL make your butt pucker. This isnt some 15k pound cattle trailer that you can pull with a 3/4 ton
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Todd I hear what your sayin about the stability of a dually. My dads company has vans with big utility backs on them, and he has one thats not a dually and it sways all over. The duallys handle better, less swaying. We aint towin trailers like you but I hear ya.
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i've seen your pic, and i've hualed loads like that before when we've rented heavy equipment for our farm. i didn't notice to much swaying, but the land is fairly level here. Also your load probably wouldn't be so unstable if you'd put the backhoe on the front of the trailer, since i'm assumimg it weighs more than the 'robot'
i'm just sayin that i'd probably never own a dually, but as the saying goes 'never say never.'
i'm just sayin that i'd probably never own a dually, but as the saying goes 'never say never.'
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i've seen your pic, and i've hualed loads like that before when we've rented heavy equipment for our farm. i didn't notice to much swaying, but the land is fairly level here. Also your load probably wouldn't be so unstable if you'd put the backhoe on the front of the trailer, since i'm assumimg it weighs more than the 'robot'
I've towed loads like that with a SRW and with a DRW. You can "get away" with it on a SRW, but for daily use you should do it right. Put that kind of load on a SRW will kill it eventually.
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what do you mean kill it?
My dad and i, my uncle and cousins, and another local farmer have have srw fords of various years. all 3/4 ton trucks. all of us have pushed our trucks to the limit. no one has ever wrecked or broken anything because they weren't using a drw. they are only good for pulling camper trailers in the mountains and only if you have a 4x2. i know from what i put my truck through and what the other guys put theirs through, that they aren't worth it.
My dad and i, my uncle and cousins, and another local farmer have have srw fords of various years. all 3/4 ton trucks. all of us have pushed our trucks to the limit. no one has ever wrecked or broken anything because they weren't using a drw. they are only good for pulling camper trailers in the mountains and only if you have a 4x2. i know from what i put my truck through and what the other guys put theirs through, that they aren't worth it.
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hey, no doubt the dually WILL handle a big load better. no doubt tin my mind. but, i have never had a problem outta the SRW 3/4 ton trucks with huge loads. except the axle shooting out through the hub, and that was due to a bad repair on a rear wheel seal. this is the kinda stuff i pull regualarly:
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