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Old 07-05-2007, 02:49 PM
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Heaviest Load hauled?

Seems like Dodge guys always have the big loads that I see headed down the roads. What are the heaviest loads you have hauled?
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in my 8' bed full of blocks heavy load
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I also mean pulling a trailer as well..
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I'm don't have the heaviest by far, but first heaviest so far in this thread.

Case 580L on 32' GN (machine and trailer weigh 24k)
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ive not really hauled anything too heavy.

id say the heaviest load ive hauled is either the 25' gooser and a k20 chevy on it or my three horse slant load trailer full of horses and gear.
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new2 does that put in the 32,000 range? thats counting the truck.
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26k was the heaviest once i avg about 17k sized loads most of the time
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Follow the link for story... 43k for 3500 miles

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I've hit 44,500 gross while hauling hay out of the field. Never gone more than 20 miles at that weight though. Here are some pics when I was grossing pretty light, upper 20's to a little over 30k gross.


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Couple of my favorites:


Me pulling goose, pulling ford, pulling goose :
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about 40k on my 40ft goosneck.
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The heaviest I've hauled so far is 23 round bales on a 40' straight deck. So bales totaled about 25,300 for an average of 1100/bale. And trailer weighs 9800 empty, grand total of 35,100....not including truck. Only hauled 30 miles.

I do have one question regarding this whole weight thing. I've seen it somewhere but can't find it. How do you figure how much weight is actually on your truck. I know a certain % of load weight is on the front of the trailer, isn't it like 60%? And then there's a certain % of the 60% that is how much is on the tongue of the trailer, is it 35% of the 60%, and that's what's actually on your truck? Anyone heard this before, or are those the wrong numbers?
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supposed to be 10-15% tongue weight
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So, 10-15% of [B]total load weight[/B] is on the tongue?
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33,760 with my '99 CTD acording to the AZ. DOT


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