ford pulling peterbilt with d6 in tow

[CATCRACKER]

:--) i was in mississippi this weekend and this 2wd 6L dually was pulling via chain a peterbilt with a high track d6 cat on a trailer i still cant believe it. it had just come off an elevated bridge and was headed up another small incline. that is the biggest load i have ever seen pulled by a 3/4 / 1 ton truck and proabably on this board has ever seen. just to clarify he was doing about 35mph not just moving the truck he was towing the MF. D6 42000+35000?? truck and trailer 76klbs

 

[Grizzly]

I bet he damaged that engine and the total drive train. I have no doubts, it can be done, but is it worth it.

 

[Coolslice]

:--) i was in mississippi this weekend and this 2wd 6L dually was pulling via chain a peterbilt with a high track d6 cat on a trailer i still cant believe it. it had just come off an elevated bridge and was headed up another small incline. that is the biggest load i have ever seen pulled by a 3/4 / 1 ton truck and proabably on this board has ever seen. just to clarify he was doing about 35mph not just moving the truck he was towing the MF. D6 42000+35000?? truck and trailer 76klbs

Maybe they were making a new Ford commercial? A follow up to the commercial where a Ford is towing the entire space shuttle and lauch pad! :-laf The Pete and the dozer were probably made out of wood and plastic. :-laf

 

[robertyoke]

built ford tough!

-robert

 

[ndurbin]

Thats really not surprising. I drug a mid-90s Freightshaker w/ a stepdeck loaded down with a Case skinny wheel Sprayer and all it's supporting tanks and such w/ a 1ton Chebby gasser. The trick is to just get it going, which isn't hard as the weight isn't on the truck but behind it as dead weight. But pulling in 4lo and granny gear to get the load moving and then shifting into Hi range as ya pickup speed. Sure it's not good on things but it can be done fairly easily.



Nathan

 

[Shrimpy]

As strange as that seems, I personally witnessed my uncle pull a loaded feed truck (18 wheeler) to his dairy from about 25 miles away. It was a early 70's 3/4 ton ford gasser (460 I think) 4 spd. We unloaded 61,000# of pellets, and the local pete dealer sent a tow truck to pick it up and haul it to the shop.



I would NOT ride with him while doing this. The truck (feed truck 18 whlr) had brakes but the transmission was shot.



Jim

 

[mattymac]

My buddies dad hauls a set of doubles loaded down with rice (somewhere around 70k I would imagine) with a 2000 24v 3/4 ton. 5spd. He rigged up an air compressor to keep the brakes released, and a pintle hitch on the dolley. He starts out in low, grabs a few gears, gets it rolling then slams it in high. He only does about 35 MPH on some back roads in the country but he says getting it going is easy, getting it stopped is the hard part!

 

[Signal73]

Not quite as big...

Heres another good one

 

[MKoth]

Farmers pull heavy wagons all the time with pickups.



I have grossed over 40K combined with a partially filled 750 bushel Brent wagon.



The wagon has 4 wheel surge brakes, and stops easily if you pay attention to what you are doing.

 

[Rattlin_Ram]

We used to pull 25-30k all the time on the farm in old gravity wagons with NO brakes!!! That was with an old '83 Ford 6. 9l Diesel, in low range with hubs unlocked on the blacktop... .

 

[CATCRACKER]

i pull a d3 cat 17500 all the time no biggie, but a d6 with a long trailer and a pete down hwy 49 35-40mph well thats insane. Somone might know better than me but i would say he was over 75k+his truck 82K. that is an alltime record. if you have seen that fake pic of that truck pulling that d6 this was for real with a pete attatched to the front of that. does someone have that pic to post?

 

[BMcGuffie]

ive had to do it before, sometimes you dont have a choice, i pulled our semi and lowboy trailer with a 315 CAT excavator 79,000 lbs. total, down the road about 3 miles when the electrical system fried on our semi on a very busy 2 lane highway with no shoulder, it bent the reciever on one of our '99 3500 4x4 flatbeds, stout little truck i have no doubt, i got it up to about 30mph, mostly uphill, still use the truck everyday... ... Dodges Rule! :-laf

 

[JJuday]

Hey, that kinda looked like me, but replace the cat with an Allis and the second gen with an old '91 and alot more smoke! :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

getting going isn't the hard part, the stopping is the hard part. the brakes are also what limit the gross vehicle rating on any vehicle. a shunt truck can move a fully loaded paper roll filled trailer with no issue and many of them have the isb engines in them. . i've pushed a 200ton locomotive with a forklift before. sorta hard to get moving with a 35hp lpg forklift, but tire traction was the issue, not hp. no way the brakes on the lift would have stopped it [if i was chained to it], but the hand brake on the loco could stop it no problem at the speed we were moving. .