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Borrowed my dad's friends mini ex to load some large wood rounds tomorrow and didn't realise what it weighed till I read the tag. 13k lbs plus the trailer and the old big block cheby performed flawlessly, 65 down the highway in OD and never broke 200* on the tranny temp. I'm very happy with my choice.
 

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Looking at max trailer weight for 3/4 ton trucks pulling 5th wheel trailers the numbers very from 12k to 18k depending on make and model. Guessing at the trailer weight at around 5k that totals up to 18k.
So can the truck handle it? It is possible.

But did the truck handle it? YES!
We have had this argument many times about overloaded trucks. Let anyone that has not overloaded a truck step forward and I will laugh at the laziness. Heck we can't all drive Peterbilts. (I do by the way, but not for hauling firewood.) And there are plenty of Peterbilts running down the road overloaded too. Government bureaucrats that have no idea or experience set these limits and manufactures have to make the labels match the laws. In the real world the limits of the law do not matter when it comes to physics.
 
I should have finished the rest of my thought in the other post. I was trying to poke you a little about that light load. lol You know if you'd had a pete(as referred by 4 seasons) you could have been over 100k easy. Just poking!
 
Early this morning dad loading her down again, we hauled this load are are now on the second looks like we're going to end up with 3 total.

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Nice digger, sweet deal! I'll bet it goes about 4 tonnes, or 8816.4 pounds. A case 580k weighs about 13k pounds.
 
Here is the end of the second load never got a shot of the first still a few tops and limbs but we are going back for them next week. Spent all morning busting up the big stuff with wedges getting it ready to run through the Speeco 35 ton.

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Thata boy Chevy power haha I always overload my 1500 Chevy and 16 foot landscaping trailer truck handles it good power wise suspension wise it has 107 k miles its due for some new shoxs and a helper spring my girl squats a little bit
 
Heck, I seen a guy pulling a mini on a trailer with an older 1/2 ton Suburban just a couple hours after first seein this thread...although it may have been a bit smaller unit than this one, still looked like an overload to me...
 

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