Had to move some trailers around the yard the other day and the yard goat was being the usually POS ford truck so put together a pintle hitch receiver hitch and used the good ol' tow rig...
PS: This is my normal big tow rig I drive hauling anything from hay, cattle, silage, compose, or equitment:
Ha, I pulled a set of of empty doubles and the truck with my K5 once, and pulled a 48ft spread and truck loaded at 79,400lbs with my Ram, and not across the yard, the rest of the way to the mechanic shop when they came up short trying to limp in coming down the road.
Sweet! I have pulled trucks with trailers around if somethine breaks but never the trailer directly with the dodge. MY boss and I are trying how to valve it to put gladhands on the back when I get my OBA finished on the dodge so I can pull truck trailers and be able to stop them too. Back on dad's farm we had a tractor pulling double side delivery rakes and the tractor died for some reason and we used an old farm ford truck to pull it and it didn't have enough umph so hooks the other chevy farm truck on front of that to get it moving. Wish I had a pic of that. 2 pickups pulling a tractor pulling 2 rakes...
rigging glad hands will be easy. for the emergency line just run the valve to the bavck of the truck and put a 1/4 turn pipe valve in line. leave it closed all th etime, and open the valve to supply the trailer and release the brakes. i would just do it at that so it can move wihtout havign to retract the brakes or much other work. making the control line work will be the hard part as you will have to modulate it some way from the cab while braking. a 1/4 turn valve plunbed in the cab could work, but would be easy to lock the trailer brakes on........ my trailer moving extent is odd. i move semi trailers all the time with the tow truck, but i dont use a dolly, i put on a adaptor that hooks aroudn the pin with two chain hooks welded to it. i then loop chain in these hooks and aroudn the underlift bar and set the chain length so it wedges against the front of the bulkhead down low, and thus effectly tow them from the very front of the trailer.
thats kinda what we were thinking, just a valve for the spring brake release on the back then I will have an air source in the cab for my bag controller could run a ball valve to a relay valve at the glad hand then regulate the trailer brakes with the ball valve in the cab, kinda like the johnson bar.
:dunno: I think it'd make a hell of a trailer for your 4x and your camper... and joes 4x, and 2 other campers
Shoot. And I thought I was hot $h** for pulling a rig (no trailer) outta the mud with a 93 Dodge dually! Was pretty impresive, still.
what was even funner was backing that into the shop with the congear. I put in 4lo so wasn't having to ride the clutch but had to pull forward twice to straighten out but got the job done.
I'm not shure how to post the picture but if you look at my feature photo It is from when I pulled a house. I only moved it around the lot to the street but it was estemated at around 60 tons. I kept it in 4 wheel low and 1st gear the hole time becouse there was no brakes on trailer.
You know, back when these diesels were just starting to get popular my dad said they had enough power to pull your house right off the foundation. I didn't think it was a challenge! And I didn't think soneone whould try it! rotfl At least it was a Cummins!:stir:
