Uzi
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Not very far and not in anything but a straight line. Backing around a corner you might as well forget it. It does have a pin to lock the tongue straight so you can cheat a little there.
Runnin' Loads
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Tenderfoot
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Uzi
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I'm not a farmer but I grew up on one. You are exactly right it's probably doable with a tractor or something else that could turn sharper up front. Also having a longer tongue on the trailer would help but on this particular rig would probably put you over legal length. The HEMTT already has the turning radius of yacht with the double steering axles up front haha. We are building a dump box trailer on another tandem military trailer for areas where we need to be able to backup. It won't have quite the capacity of this one but should much more maneuverable. The size of this rig isn't always handy but with the crane and carrying capacity I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
Tenderfoot
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Uzi
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Yeah it does have brakes on both axles. It does like to wander a little but weighs 11 k empty so that helps. It's worse on grooved 2 lane asphalt were it follows the road and not the truck. Loaded its good for 65 mph all day long
Shanen Mannies
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Tenderfoot
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Little load and a bit bigger load
Last Load of 4 for the day a few weeks ago. It's so much easier with the winch no more bucking on site. This was cut by the state on route 44/55 near Minawaska state park. They were dumping them in a clearing. Asked the foreman he said I could take it all. Trailer has a 12 ft bed
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Ryan'smilling
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Loaded up the trailer again today. My buddy who has a tree service dropped this red oak in my driveway. He can't make it back to the bush with his truck and dump trailer, so I had to load it on my trailer to move it back there. 
ChoppyChoppy
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Worked with a guy that could back 2 of them like it was nothing
practice makes progress in whatever attempt is tried.
One of last weekends loads.
locochainsaw
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That truck is amazing!!
Thanks it has served me well over the years. I'm friends with the previous owner and he wishes they never would have let it go.
Dieseldash
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Nothing better than a deer on a flat bed!!
Shanen Mannies
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Good weather and some good haul today 
Wowzer
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You sir have a really nice truck whats under the Hood, 4x4, dump bed or just flat deck?
Thank you very much. Its a 99 k3500 4x4. In addition to being a 1 ton its got adjustable airbags in the rear. Standard Flat bed with hideaway gooseneck hitch for my trailer. 350 vortec with 4l80e trans. The bed does not dump but the truck was equipped when it was ordered with PTO provision on the t-case so it could be converted to dump if I ever got ambitious. This truck has pulled massive loads of the large square bales and thousands of bushels of soy beans, corn, grain, etc its entire life. The previous owner told me "its had a trailer behind it more than it hasn't". Its been a great truck for me and I don't have anything into it hardly. After they traded it in where I work I was able to purchase it for less than what they had paid to have the new flat bed put on a few months prior. I drive it everyday in the hopes of keeping my "good" truck nice and out of the salt. It has served me very well and I appreciate the compliments.
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