Posted 2008-04-10 7:05 PM (#81671 - in reply to #81667) Subject: RE: Trailer...who needs a trailer?
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Posts: 2453 Location: Northern Utah
You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed.
Posted 2008-04-10 7:49 PM (#81679 - in reply to #81671) Subject: RE: Trailer...who needs a trailer?
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Posts: 3802 Location: Rocky Mount N.C.
Originally written by Painted Horse on 2008-04-10 8:05 PM
You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed.
That's either a F450 or a F550. GVW on a F450 is something like 16,000# and the F550 is something like 19,000#.
Posted 2008-04-10 8:18 PM (#81680 - in reply to #81671) Subject: RE: Trailer...who needs a trailer?
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Posts: 3853 Location: Vermont
Originally written by Painted Horse on 2008-04-10 8:05 PM
You mean a 50 gal water tank. No way there is a 500 gallon tank on that truck. It is ony a SRW truck, 500 gallons of water would be over 4000 lbs. No way that a SRW drive truck is rated for 4000lbs plus a couple of horses. Let alone the weight of the bed.
Posted 2008-04-11 10:43 AM (#81700 - in reply to #81667) Subject: RE: Trailer...who needs a trailer?
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Posts: 342 Location: MS
That is really nice, but I think I would want some kind of rails on that ramp. It is pretty high. And I wonder where the ramp goes after you load up...
Posted 2008-04-11 9:09 PM (#81722 - in reply to #81667) Subject: RE: Trailer...who needs a trailer?
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Posts: 97 Location: Newport News, VA
Looks slippery, too, being all metal. I wonder why they didn't cover it in rubber matting, before putting the the traction strips across it? I would imagine for most horses, it would quite a bit of training to get them to walk up a plain metal ramp like that, because it would be really loud. I bet the ramp unhooks and slides up under the "bed/trailer", just like on the old horse vans. I wonder how heavy it is? The ramp on the old horse van where I used to ride was definitely a two man job and that ramp was REALLY steep. I had a hard time walking up and down it on my own. I HATED loading an unloading horses. They eventually had it recovered for better traction and had a wooden rest made that made for a small step down for the horses at the end of the ramp, but greatly reduced the angle of the ramp. Their's DID have fold out wooden sides and a horse still one day freaked out and went through the side and off the ramp leaving him with some nasty gashes that required a lot of stitches.
Trailer...who needs a trailer?
