I’ve haul 30,000lbs with my 2011 RAM 2500 5.7 Hemi all the time. Twice a week for several months that was 100,000 miles ago. 276,000 miles on the truck now and still haul 5 tons of rock and dirt with it all the time. No mods what so ever. The hemi is was underrated and overlooked.
I have Max’d my 2500 hemi multiple times. So much I lost the gears in the rearend. Regeared from the 3.73 to 4.88’s and keeps her in the power band and not searching for gears. Great video.
The 6.4 hemi is a great engine! They use them for a cheaper alternative in the 4500/5500 cab and chassis roll backs and they do fine there pulling full size trucks like your old 6.4 etc, I run one for the shop to offer towing for my customers!
A building contractor named Andrew Camarata owns the same size excavator as that one, and pulls it and heavier stuff on a surplus army equipment trailer. He owned a rusted out mid 2000's Dodge 1/2 ton pickup with a stock mopar 318 and dodge 3500 rear springs that he put under it. It surprised me alot. He used it year round on some hilly roads. He's had a channel on this website for years.
Lovely to have Gina join in the last couple of videos - it's a good addition (Mrs Branson is it? haha) - The timelapse was great - except I'm from New Zealand and you guys drive on the wrong side! Thank guys I enjoy your channel
I know my 07 2500hd duramax will haul 20k including the trailer weight. If yours has the manual selector button drop it done 1 gear from the highest gear. Made a world of difference on mine. I have a 6 speed and limited it to only go as high as 5th gear and I was running 75 without any heat issues. It didn’t like hills but what truck would with 20k behind it. If a gasser does what you need it to do then that’s all that matters. I wanted a diesel cause I’m looking at pulling heavier loads in the future.
Good job Hank, Like everything else it takes time to get comfortable smoothness, then speed when you start learning short cuts and tricks. It's fun to learn when not under the gun,and not trying to hold a camera Central California watching
Find a local grain elevator, call them and ask if you can come by with your load and weigh it and then after it’s off, take it by and weigh it empty. That shouldn’t be a problem for them. You can get your weights that way.
I’m not sure if I missed it, but what was your mpg with the trailer and excavator? I’m curious because I usually only pull around 4k LBS with my trailer and weight, and I’m only getting an average 10mpg
Hey Hank, I’m glad I found this channel just recently, y’all’s content is great. Funny I was just telling my brother today I’m considering a Ram 2500 with the 6.4 and I really enjoyed this video! Also have to check out these Branson tractors I’m seeing 🤔
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Piece of cake for what you have and it was a rops instead of cab so that's not much over 9000 my guess is about 12,000 would be the max in machine that you would want to carry. I see guys with duallys pulling 18,000 lb machines with no USDOT numbers and so on which scares me these new pickups are towing way more than most people are qualified or know to do
if the trailer can handle 12,000 it can't carry 12,000 you have to deduct the trailer weight for pay load weight .next time run a chain over the bucket as well.
If the trailer is rated for 12k, you can deduct the weight transfer to the trucks rear axle. Pull to a weigh station, they measure the axle weights against the GCWR. If you transfer enough weight to the rear axle of the truck and the payload isn’t exceeded, you are good.
@@darekheide5216 That is not how that works. Since the whole load is on the trailer it has to be within the capacity of the trailer, regardless of where the weight transfers to the ground. What you are describing would change the axel weights, as recorded on the scales.
@@HamiltonvilleFarm well you also said 2-3 minutes, just trying to be helpful, if people get bored and leave half way through it hurts your metrics. sorry if you cant take a suggestion
Nah man, I can take it. ....did you not see the text at the bottom of the screen that said "skip ahead to 17:12 if you don't wanna watch it? Serious question cause i need to edit it if it didnt show up
@@HamiltonvilleFarmi didn't see it the first time, but i am a bit of a passive RU-vid viewer, i just have stuff on while i do other stuff and glance over once in a while, but i did go back and saw it after your comment.
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it??? you mean the truck? the trailer has its own brakes! dont worry about the truck stopping the trailer, just pulling it. the trailer has its own brakes.
How about you Hank! I live in Texas the other day I had to go up to Kansas and pick up a 3500 cab and chassis basically a dually with no bed. It had the 6.4 hemi it was a rough ride with no bed. But it ran good I drove it 80 and 85 miles per hour all the way back to Texas! It was a strong puller.
Be easy on that ram, use tow mode with any trailer. My 3/4 ton 4x4 6.4 hemi has already ate 2 transmissions. They just can't handle pulling loads. I drive mine very gently and the most weight I have ever pulled is 8 round bales of hay - less than 10 loads of that. I love the truck for non loaded trips but use my f150 for the real work.
@HalfShell my ram is a 2016 with the 66rfe transmission, next truck i buy will be well researched. There's case after case to read about of these transmissions failing if you Google it. Like I said... I love the truck but I'm disappointed about the durability but not as disappointed as I was a year after buying a 2007 F-250 with the 6.0 powerstroke 🤑🤑🤑
