Re: [ihc] Trailering weight..

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,

So you wouldn't recommend this to a novice trailer
puller.  Right??

Glad to see you made it.

Steve
--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:

> Speaking of which--
> 
> Further adventures in overloading and asking
> decrepit vehicles to do more
> than they were ever meant to, even when new ----
> 
> Acquired a lathe at an auction five miles SE of
> Naturita, CO, last
> Saturday. A _NICE_ 'little' lathe !! As in an
> Axelson 16" x 54". Estimated
> about 8,000 lbs. of it, all iron, of course.
> 
> Thought I had a nice late Dodge diesel dually &
> fifth wheel lined up to
> bring it home. That fell through. So--after
> scratching around, trying to
> find an appropriate flat-bed truck to rent, with NO
> luck, on Monday I fired
> up the old Traveller hitched up my flat bed trailer
> and headed down there
> (about a 5.5 hour trip in a NORMAL vehicle).
> 
> Traveller + trailer has GOT to equal 7K lbs. Add 8K
> lbs. of lathe to that.
> I put all four 10.50 x 15's on the Traveller at 50
> psi, all four trailer
> tires at 55 psi. Made it home. The lathe is safely
> unloaded, under roof,
> and under a tarp in a friend's shop. Even made it up
> to 55, mebbe even 60
> mph on I-70 between Grand Junction and Rifle. Not
> much over 45 the rest of
> the way. A LOT slower than that going up, and MOST
> especially DOWN various
> grades. Slowest we got on any of those was about 25
> mph, especially coming
> down into Whitewater off of the Unaweep divide.
> 
> The poor old 345 in the Traveller is _past_  READY
> for retirement---and
> it's front seal is about non-existent. BUT--the
> amazing thing is the
> primary needles and secondary jets I made for the
> T-Quad. Even beats Dan's
> T-Q tune-up routine !! Between Gay Johnson's (just
> east of Grand Junction &
> Palisade) and Craig America, which is 133 miles, BY
> THE MILEPOSTS, although
> we 'consumed' about a gallon of motor oil (and
> killed a BUNCH of skeeters,
> especially when going up grades) (the LoadStar fan
> takes the oil from the
> front non-seal and 'lubes' the exhaust quite
> thoroughly, and then when the
> engine is working, the heat un-lubes it all), we
> ONLY BURNED _8.5_ gallons
> _ of fuel !!!!! EVEN if we assume that the tank got
> a couple of gallons
> fuller in Craig than it did at Johnson's---that's
> WELL over 10 miles per
> gallon when pulling right about 15K GCVW !!!!!!!
> 
> I gave the old girl a fond pat on her dash for
> coming out of
> semi-retirement to do such difficult duty, and
> promised her the IC 392
> recently swiped from a school bus and a narrowed
> Dana 60 1100 rear with
> oversize rear wheel bearings in the very near
> future--- body by Kentrol is
> in the works , too, but not quite so soon !!!!
> 
> Hofs--you should likely oughtta avoid mentioning
> that last to your sweetie,
> lest she might turn the tables on ya---- :-)
> 
> Greg