pickup trucks/gooseneck trailers

Love that picture on post # 2 Roddyo.You wont get any grief from me.Anyone that has been in this business has hauled a little heavy from time to time.Cool pics handtpipeline,Love the Oklahoma bullhauler Peterbuilt,Mack & pheylon loboy.Every size truck has it's place.For hauling small equipment or concrete forms ,excavator buckets & such I like our chevy 1 ton and low profile corn pro trailer.We cant get the job done without it.

biggest load i've moved.





usually my toys.


or (old old shot)

Side Loading & Leaving the Operator in the Seat.

EGS said:

I have not done it, but I seen it done. All I can say is WOW!

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My old buddy Johnny wouldn't do something like that would he?

Glad you like the Pics EGS.

If you would spend a week with me you could learn a lot about what NOT to do.

25c said:

Love that picture on post # 2 Roddyo.You wont get any grief from me.Anyone that has been in this business has hauled a little heavy from time to time.Cool pics handtpipeline,Love the Oklahoma bullhauler Peterbuilt,Mack & pheylon loboy.Every size truck has it's place.For hauling small equipment or concrete forms ,excavator buckets & such I like our chevy 1 ton and low profile corn pro trailer.We cant get the job done without it.

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That's a clean truck 25c. Do you park it in the winter?

I think we are a lot alike, the local jack of all trades.

I had to pour a little concrete yesterday. Helped a friend of mine make a water tank out of a scraper tire.

I'll put some pics up in my Arkansas Farm Pics, that's something you might find intresting.

GN trailer

25C, you have any info on that trailer? Justin

handtpipeline said:

Not a 572, but I've got 3 17A D-7's.

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Those pics are so old school they were before carpet on the booms. Love the pics handtpipeline, keep em comming.

A 17A, your a boomhand.:notworthy

roddyo said:

My old buddy Johnny wouldn't do something like that would he?

Glad you like the Pics EGS.

If you would spend a week with me you could learn a lot about what NOT to do.

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Your old buddy Johnny sure would do something like that.:notworthy

I love your pics shows a different part of the country and an another way of doing things.

I would like to spend a week with you Rodney, I am sure we could get in all kinds "trouble". We could show each other all kinds of stuff we are NOT supposed to do.

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adv.wastewater said:

Insurance is way cheaper on my dually, it's also my personal daily driver which gets an average of 19 mpg unloaded. I haul my gooseneck and my usual loads are a mini excavator and a skid steer, normally I don't load both at once but it's not a problem to haul them both. About 15,000 lbs between the 2 on a 12 ton trailer so it's not overloaded in any way. I love my set up and would not want anything different.

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I think I posted this experience already, but here goes again

about 3 years ago, I bought a Fecon mulching machine, weight about 15,000 lb. I hooked up my 10 ton gooseneck to my 1 ton and headed to get the machine, about 2 hrs away. Loaded the machine, headed to the shop and got stopped by the DMV, you know this story isnt going to end pretty. Everything was looking good, until he noticed I didnt have enough licenses (weight) on the truck. All I have ever pulled was a Bobcat, and I forgot to increase the limits, he got me on that and then called a weight DMV officer and they weighed everything (not good) besides the licenses weight thingee, the truck wasnt big enough GVW (or something like that) red tagged everything. He did let me pull it, to a better location. I then had to send for my lowboy and load gooseneck and machine on lowboy. 5 hrs later I got back to the shop, with a $1200 ticket.
What Im getting at, make sure your truck is classified to pull the load, or you will be sooorryyee:Banghead

I know a guy that moves his 45,000lb excavator, on a 20 ton tag a long, behind a old tandem dump truck, he never has be stopped, he is lucky

Good Luck to everyone

roddyo said:

That's a clean truck 25c. Do you park it in the winter?

I think we are a lot alike, the local jack of all trades.

I had to pour a little concrete yesterday. Helped a friend of mine make a water tank out of a scraper tire.

I'll put some pics up in my Arkansas Farm Pics, that's something you might find intresting.

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It's a 1986 chevy k-30 with 136,000 miles on it,just now getting broke in.We use it mostly to pull the gooseneak trailer now on costruction jobs.We take pretty good care of it and always keep it shedded.It's funny ,we were talking about these trailers yesterday and I get a call this morning from our local municipal parks department.They tolled me they needed a small tractor & manure spreader to spread tree bark mulch on some trails in the park.Well I said count me in and I loaded the 4000 ford & new idea spreader on the corn pro trailer.Guess i'l be spreading mulch in the morning.We got allot in common Roddyo.

Deereman said:

25C, you have any info on that trailer? Justin

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It seems to be a pretty nice trailer Deereman.14,000 gvwr,nice ramps,low profile deck.Built in Elnora IN.Ours is a 2005 model.We love it.

572 with a Skid Basket

EGS said:

Your old buddy Johnny sure would do something like that.:notworthy

I love your pics shows a different part of the country and an another way of doing things.

I would like to spend a week with you Rodney, I am sure we could get in all kinds "trouble". We could show each other all kinds of stuff we are NOT supposed to do.

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If we couldn't get our boom knocked down we would side load our 572 drop the boom and go. No big deal except it had a skid basket on the front and hung over about 8 foot.

It was about like moving a double wide house trailer.

Maybe one of these days it will work out for you to come down a few days. If I'm not busy I wouldn't mind showing you around and could probably come up with you a place to stay. As long as it's not hunting season.

Around here people haul some crazy stuff behind there pickups... A buddy of mine has an f-350 single wheel and he hauls his Deere 550 dozer behind it on a 14,000 lb gooseneck trailer... Absolutely crazy! Says it tows fine... I just don't think it's safe at all.

A buddy of mine has an f-350 single wheel and he hauls his Deere 550 dozer behind it on a 14,000 lb gooseneck trailer..

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Your buddy is way over weight. It may pull just fine, the stopping is where it can be trouble.

It really boils down to your liability if you were to be in an accident. For example - Let's say you are pulling a 18-20K LB dozer on a 14K GVW trailer behind a truck with a 18K towing capacity and hit someone in the rear end, you are toast. As soon as your insurance company knows the details, they will immediately refer to the "fine print" exclusions in your policy and will leave you hanging like a torn sweater at Goodwill.

After the trial, the person you run into now owns your truck, equipment, house....:cool2

roddyo said:

My old buddy Johnny wouldn't do something like that would he?

Glad you like the Pics EGS.

If you would spend a week with me you could learn a lot about what NOT to do.

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Rodney I was thinking the lowboy driver that hauled that side loaded equipment was from your neck of the woods too.

roddyo said:

I can't think of a better picture to start this thread.

Here's one that will make some people have a coronary.

Let the Flaming begin.

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HOLY CRAP roddyo.... your right that will cause a coronary, how could you move that machine without capping the exhaust.....tsk tsk tsk :drinkup

EGS said:

Rodney I was thinking the lowboy driver that hauled that side loaded equipment was from your neck of the woods too.

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If his motto was;

"Don't worry about the Mule, Just Load the Wagon"

he probably was from down this way.

Burnout said:

HOLY CRAP roddyo.... your right that will cause a coronary, how could you move that machine without capping the exhaust.....tsk tsk tsk :drinkup

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Don't worry Burnout, it wasn't but a 7 or 8 mile haul down the gravel.

45 MPH Max.

BTW did remember you saying one time that you had a shifter fix for a 855/875 Versatile Tractor.

Few Ole Boys down here would appreciate it if you got any tricks to share.

roddyo said:

Don't worry Burnout, it wasn't but a 7 or 8 mile haul down the gravel.

45 MPH Max.

BTW did remember you saying one time that you had a shifter fix for a 855/875 Versatile Tractor.

Few Ole Boys down here would appreciate it if you got any tricks to share.

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Yeah... let me guess they have tractors getting stuck in 2nd and not coming out of gear? Easiest way to keep it from happening over and over is to make a new shift gate that sits on the dash. Make it out of sheet metal so that the shifter is in a perfect pattern all the time. Make the cuts for the gate just a hair wider than the ****er itself. Pulling them out of gear on an angle is what messes them up. We haven't had one shifter failure this year.... but that could be because I haven't seen a Versatile running yet.

Those are some fine looking work trucks and machines...............I'd be proud to have anyone of them!!

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Do I read Haack on your sign? ,and also the vegetation looks like in my neck of the woods,not actually Alabama.