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  • 01-05-2008 12:36am
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    MrFoxman360
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭


    What is the heaviest thing you have every put in or towed with your 4X4, be it leagal or just on the grey side of legal.

    Recently I towed a 3ton vintage tractor on an ifor williams trailer with my own (gutless) 2.5 pajero, and I thought it was slow before!!

    Seriously though there must be some good stories out there, a few years ago a friend of mine towed a 4.5 ton tarctor on a tri-axel low loader, 20 miles, behind a 1991 Landcrusier. Good job there was no Gardi around :eek:


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    #2
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Well, not me or a 4WD, but my cousin pulled a 2 ton stationary engine with his Vauxhall Astra 1.7TD! The car barely pulled it, but he got there in the end!

    I did remember seeing some time ago a Mercedes ML (don't know which engine model) pulling a large Iveco container truck before. That must have been quite a feat!


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Does pulling a 3.5 ton motorhome off the wet grass and up a slope count?

    I was very proud of my wheezy little diesel, so I was


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    aravan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭aravan


    I saw this once.

    Image028.jpg


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    prospect
    Registered Users Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭prospect


    The most I have towed was about 1.5tonnes of gravel on a twin axel trailer. Was out of a steep quarry, bone dry though.


    Probably slightly off topic, but I had to tow an twin axel tipping trailer once that had seized bearings on one side with an L200. The journey was about 15 miles. What a stink.


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    Slig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭Slig


    towed a 3.5 tonne digger on a twin axled ifor williams, thought it was a 3 tonne. every time I went through a puddle there was a pyrotechnic cloud of steam, towed it with a pajero sport(the only thing worse than the steam was the smell of burning clutch everytime I changed gear).
    Towed a 1.5 tonne boat on a single axled trailer from Essex in the east of england to roscommon, the only time I had any problems with the size of boat or width of the trailer was when I reached Dublin. A Dublin bus tried to sideswipe me by pulling out without looking.


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    farva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭farva


    I remember reading in a 4x4 magazine a few years ago about a guy who used a Discovery 200TDi to tow 15 ton long boats around a harbour / boat yard. He had it in low range the whole time, but I was just amazed to hear that the Disco was able to move such heavy trailers, even in low range!


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    ...and then there would be the famous video of Clarkson(?) pulling a 747 with a Tuareg


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    farva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭farva


    peasant wrote: »
    ...and then there would be the famous video of Clarkson(?) pulling a 747 with a Tuareg

    I remember that, it was class. It was organised by 5th gear and the VW UK press office. They loaded the Touareg down with weight until it weighed over 7 tonnes and the 747 weighed something like 155 tonnes!


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    aravan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭aravan


    And this

    carina.jpg


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    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    aravan wrote: »
    And this

    carina.jpg
    A few years ago, and not a million miles from where that photo was taken, I met an Isuzu Trooper towing a builders' trailer piled high with sand; with a mini-digger perched on top! :eek:
    I hope the driver didn't have to perform any unexpected braking.


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    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    What about this one?????:D:D:D:D:D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcL108AFF4


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    farva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭farva


    pullandbang wrote: »
    What about this one?????:D:D:D:D:D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcL108AFF4

    That actually made me laugh out loud, even after the 2nd time I watched it!


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    MrFoxman360 wrote: »
    What is the heaviest thing you have every put in or towed with your 4X4, be it leagal or just on the grey side of legal.

    Recently I towed a 3ton vintage tractor on an ifor williams trailer with my own (gutless) 2.5 pajero, and I thought it was slow before!!

    Seriously though there must be some good stories out there, a few years ago a friend of mine towed a 4.5 ton tarctor on a tri-axel low loader, 20 miles, behind a 1991 Landcrusier. Good job there was no Gardi around :eek:
    That's hardly funny. Could have killed someone.

    Anywho. Not me but a friend that works in shipping burnt out the clutch in his Hilux trying to move a tanker with it. Didn't sound like the first time he'd tried it. Can't remember how much the tanker weighed.

    Edit: The tanker was in the water obviously. Unlike the story with the trailers above.


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    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Not strictly the sort of 4x4 this forum is for, but it does involve a four wheel drive vehicle and it fits this thread perfectly, so here goes-

    A 'source' of mine (who is very well connected and who I trust to tell the truth) in the farm machinery trade told me the following:
    A contractor working on the M-50 upgrade purchased a large and sophisticated agricultural tractor (think '6 figure sum') for use on the project, but he got endless trouble with the transmission.
    The tractor was constantly back at the main dealer getting stuff fixed under warranty: clutch packs, ECUs, pumps, seals, etc.
    The manufacturer saw this particular tractor appearing on the warranty list a lot more than would be considered normal, so they send a spectacularly qualified technician with a heap of test and diagnostic equipment over to have a look at it.
    The technician presented himself at the owner's yard early one morning and told the young lad who let him in who he was and that he wanted to see the faulty tractor.
    "That's it over there" said the young lad, pointing at the tractor, which was hitched up to an enormous low-loader trailer with a 40 tonne digger on it, total load on the high side of 50 tonnes.
    "Is that what it usually tows?" asked the technician.
    "Yes" said the young lad, "it does nothing else."
    "Thank you very much" said the technician, as he took out a camera, took a load of photographs of the outfit, and left.

    All further warranty claims on the tractor were denied.


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    landydef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭landydef


    just 2 tonne bags of sand and 10 bags of cement in my 3/4 tonne single angle sankey trailer with my td5 90, stopping was fun!


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    Stevo11
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Stevo11


    Buddy of mine :
    http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/18wheels.html

    scroll down a bit to see the freightliner ;-)

    Steve


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    fastrac
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭fastrac


    something simular in Cork when a New Holland 165 was checked as a result of loads of return visits to the seller and had been chipped up 50 hp by the owner again to pull a low loader


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    Skylined
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Skylined


    I loaned my 14' tri axle jpm plant trailer to a neighbour farmer to get 2 ton of fertiliser from co op 3 mile away, he came back fully loaded with 7 ton on it !!!!! He was pulling it with an 08 Toyota landscruiser, he doesn't know what low range is!!, with the trailer that's 8 ton behind the jeep. He wasn't too concerned about my tires or hubs . . . .


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    ford 5600
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭ford 5600


    Skylined wrote: »
    I loaned my 14' tri axle jpm plant trailer to a neighbour farmer to get 2 ton of fertiliser from co op 3 mile away, he came back fully loaded with 7 ton on it !!!!! He was pulling it with an 08 Toyota landscruiser, he doesn't know what low range is!!, with the trailer that's 8 ton behind the jeep. He wasn't too concerned about my tires or hubs . . . .

    A neighbour borrowed his bosses IW 14 ft tri axle for the same job. He was VERY proud of bringing home 5 tons of fert on it, behind a 04 Disco td5 . 30 years ago I remember a friend having 2 tons of fertiliser on a homemade car transporter behind a Vauxhall Chevette hatchback with all of 1256 cc thumping away under the bonnet.


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    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Slig wrote: »
    towed a 3.5 tonne digger on a twin axled ifor williams, thought it was a 3 tonne. every time I went through a puddle there was a pyrotechnic cloud of steam, towed it with a pajero sport(the only thing worse than the steam was the smell of burning clutch everytime I changed gear).
    Towed a 1.5 tonne boat on a single axled trailer from Essex in the east of england to roscommon, the only time I had any problems with the size of boat or width of the trailer was when I reached Dublin. A Dublin bus tried to sideswipe me by pulling out without looking.

    We tow one of them every day, pretty much, shifting it from job to job, usually with a lowly transit with 85 horses..
    Biggest I erm, have ever errr heard someone tow was a 6.5 ton forklift on a tripple axel trailer, with a Hiace. From Dublin, to Naas. Which was heavy going.

    If yo give me a 4*4 and a decent trailer, skys the limit. And often, hauling heavy scrap to the yard, it has been..5 ton, shure be grand...them were the days..

    I towed a broken down Suzuki Grand vitara hitched to a tripple axel ifor trailer carrying 3+(a lot more) ton of scaffolding up off the Tullamore by-pass for a few miles to a filling station, with a little Fiat Scudo. Naah, I didn't think it would tow it either, especially up-hill, but it did. :)


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    ubs69
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭ubs69


    4 ton of wood chip in an ifor Williams 12x6 trailer up still organ dual carriageway to the beehive in Wicklow with an isuzu trooper 3.1 . Got stuck at every set of lights ,still have the weigh docket ,think it was 7 ton altogether 2 for trooper 1 for trailer and 4 for wood chip


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    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    ubs69 wrote: »
    4 ton of wood chip in an ifor Williams 12x6 trailer up still organ dual carriageway to the beehive in Wicklow with an isuzu trooper 3.1 . Got stuck at every set of lights ,still have the weigh docket ,think it was 7 ton altogether 2 for trooper 1 for trailer and 4 for wood chip

    At risk of being called bold, we toddled across the pond to collect three mini-tractors on a 16' trailer with a Nissan Terrano. This was ill-judged, in terms of size, weight and capacity, but we were young and a bit dumb. Turned out they were 3 ton each, who knew? They also didn't really fit either.. got them back tho. But not again, for diamonds.


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    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


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