45,000lbs.

durallymax

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Under The Hood
Heres a pic of what our 02 regularily sees. I probably sound like abroken record for you guys that are on other sites but It is pretty amazing to see what kind of abuse these trucks take.

The truck has a ??? 30,000lb gooseneck hitch. Its the fancy one where you pull a lever and the ball drops. But that feature quit working within a week.,

I should really get some pics as the ball has now moved nearly and inch back, sits at an angle and wiggles a little. Its seems pretty unsafe to me.

The trailer is a 32' steel featherlite tri flex axle. We now run 14ply tires all around. We went through two complete sets (12) of blown tires before finally upgrading and havent blown one of these yet.

The Trailer is on its 4th set of brakes. Even with the flex axles weve still broken a couple.

The truck also has an Edge Juice with attitude. Which is its second one as the first one lost communication. Its had te juice for 4 years now.

My dad used to always talk about how the edge was a waste of money and these trucks dont need any more power. Now he cant live without it. an cried when it took a shit.

It eats through a set of transforce ats once a yea or about 17,000 miles.

the truck has also been a plow truck for 4 years.

thats about it. And for everybody whos gonna say buy a semi. We do have one now too. But that just means we can run the semi and the dmax.
Part of the reason I dont work at our farm any more. Couldnt stand upper managemnet.

Any other comments or question s just ask.



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custom8726

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Me too on the pics!! I know I have pulled over 30k with the 05-LLY and 03-LB7 on quite a few occasions but 45k is pretty extreme even if its just around the farm.
 
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I also do it regularly as well. Got 194K on that red truck now. Bent one set of 2500 springs and blown up a set of airbags. 3500 springs seem to work better.
 

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2wd_Sled_Puller

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I got a 36 foot protrax gooseneck i pull 60 inch round bales of hay 23 at a time they way around the 2,000 pound range. i pull that with a 12 va. I dont think my duramax could do it in the hay fields i think i would burn the allison up not having low range
 

jdugie123

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it great to pull big loads like those and passing up other trucks that could only wish to be able to tow these loads
 

jdugie123

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45k isn't to hard to get once you start loading up hay especially if its not all dried out like he has in his pick looks like alfalfa