new 5500 dump ready to work
05-19-2008, 09:54 PM
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Sweet looking setup!!! I believe your trailer might be a tad bit over loaded though? Also, with all that tongue weight and your rear axle almost centered underneath the dump body, I wonder how much you can really haul in the bed. Its sure nice to see the rear axles set back on trucks so the front axle handles part of the load too................since they started putting the fuel cells all the way to the rear, it really screwed things up. IMO. Bad looking truck though!! Im so jealous.........
05-24-2008, 12:34 AM
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06-02-2008, 11:49 PM
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With age comes the cage
The box spec’s says 5.6 yards, and the electric over hydraulic pump is good for 5 ton. I hauled 5-6 yards of top soil no problem. The truck is good for 19500 minus truck weight of 8500 (I think without looking at spec’s) and minus 1750 for dump box and some for fuel and trailer hitch. The truck should be able to haul 9000 lbs, but we have road bans out now so you can only haul 75% of GVWR.
So finally to answer your question (not that I have a definite answer) you would have to find out how much is 1 yard of gravel is and go from there, but I would guess gravel is more than topsoil.
So finally to answer your question (not that I have a definite answer) you would have to find out how much is 1 yard of gravel is and go from there, but I would guess gravel is more than topsoil.
I am thinking either a PTO mount to the 6 spd Aisin on the 5500 bullet or an engine mount with clutch cut out as I want to run front-rear winches, welder and an air compressor with my system..
06-07-2008, 01:26 AM
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