Tractors and Farm Equipment

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There's a wide variety of types used depending on the temperature and climate you're in, the severity of work it's being used for, amount of miles or hours you use it at a time etc. There isn't "one kind fits all" to this question.

John Deere, Massey Ferguson and Fendt are the three best farm tractors but they all cost a lot of money.

A lot of of other tractors are ok but none are really in their league.

New Holland and Case are both cheap but you get what you pay for with tractors.

This is how to load a 53-foot trailer. The first thing you need to do is figure out what you're going to load on it. The whole vehicle can legally weigh only 80,000 pounds, including cargo. I say "only" because I went to pick up a trailer full of car parts and the bill of lading said the load weighed 79,000 pounds. The load. Not the load plus the trailer, but just the stuff the guy wanted to send. I told him to take all but 40,000 pounds of it off. "But it says 80,000 pounds on the side of your truck!" Yeah, and 32,000 pounds of that is the truck itself. Once he realized he couldn't legally ship that much weight, he was pretty cool about it. I've hauled 45,000 pound loads but they're tricky to balance. 43,000 pound loads make me pretty happy.

Next, figure out what weighs what. Normally when you load product into a trailer, all the skids of product weigh about the same. If you've got a really heavy few skids, the best place to put them is about halfway back. Don't stick 'em right over either of the tandems because that makes balancing the load very difficult--and sometimes you absolutely cannot do it.

Once you've figured out what's going where, start putting the freight in the trailer. Put the first skids right against the front wall of the trailer. You don't want them sliding forward if the driver has to put on the brakes suddenly. Then put the rest of the skids in the trailer, each one touching the one in front of it. If the freight doesn't completely cover the pallet, a lot of companies use airbags to keep the freight separated. These look like big brown-paper pillows.

You then block the freight from sliding backward, if it's not really heavy stuff. If you're hauling beer, you've got to use load locks or load straps on it. If you've got a load of rolls of printing paper, it will take a lot to move them so most guys just stick them in the trailer and call it good. Some freight needs to be strapped down so it won't jump around, like the guy I met in a truck stop yesterday who picked up a $50,000 pizza oven this morning. He had to put straps across the top of it to keep it from jumping up and down when he hit a pothole. (Yes, we all have air ride suspension and it helps quite a bit--but if you manage to drop a drive wheel into a 6" deep pothole, the load's going to find out about it. So will the driver, for that matter.)

Next, write a bill of lading. Instructions for doing this are more complex than I want to put here now.

Finally, close the trailer doors and put your seal on.

The last thing that gets done is done by the driver: weigh the load if it's over 30,000 pounds. The truck can weigh 80,000 pounds, but there are also axle limits: 20,000 pounds for a single axle, 34,000 pounds for tandem axles. When you weigh the load, you want four numbers like so:

Steer axle 11,200

Drive axle 32,380

Trailer axle 33,100

Total 76,680

If you go to a Cat Scale (there are others, but I like Cat scales best) they give you a printed form with these numbers on them. It's a two part form--between the two parts is a trading card with a picture of a customized truck on it. Save this. They're cool.

Anyway, if either the drive or the trailer axle weighs over 34,000 pounds you've got to fix it. You do it by sliding your trailer tandems. If there's too much weight on the drive axle you slide the tandems forward, and if the weight's on the trailer axle you slide them back. You'll notice I said nothing about how to fix the steer axle--and that's intentional. The only way you'll get the steer axle close to 20,000 is to unhook the trailer. I've scaled a bunch of loads and I've never seen my steer axle over 11,500. The load pushes down on the rear axles, picking up the steer axle and reducing its weight.

Once the load's legal, you're ready to go.

Note that this is for non-hazardous loads. There's a whole set of rules governing hazardous loads.

In mountain driving, it is a trucker's best friend, but also one he hopes to never have to see or meet. Braking systems have been greatly improved in recent years, but there can still be failures on long downhill stretches and a dirt pullout allows the operator to exit the paved highway and pull onto a dirt pullout reduce his speed on an incline and avoid a serious accident.

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Somewhere between 25,000 and 27,000 most likely. Can't really get more specific than that without knowing more information. The vehicle's powertrain will factor into the empty weight of the vehicle (e.g., an 8.3 Cummins will weigh considerably less than a 12.7 Detroit or 12.8 Cat), the dump bed itself (steel rock tubs are much heavier than both steel and aluminum dirt tubs), etc. The heavier the axles are rated, the more weight there'll be there, there's a significant difference in weight with aluminum vs. steel rims, the vehicle's overall wheelbase will affect the tare weight, whether it's a road tractor with a dump body slapped on or a true dump truck with a double frame and Chalmers/Camelback/Walking Beam suspension will affect the tare weight, etc.

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hp needed depends on the sixe of equipment you are going to pull with the tractor any tractor dealer or farmer could tell you what you need

I may have one ....what specifically are you looking for

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To check the hydraulic oil on a John Deere JD400, locate the hydraulic oil reservoir, which is typically found near the rear of the machine. Remove the dipstick or filler cap, wipe it clean, and then reinsert it to check the oil level. The oil should be within the marked range on the dipstick, and ensure that the oil is clean and free of contaminants. Always consult the operator's manual for specific instructions and recommendations for your model.

This depends on the capacity of the dump truck and the depth of the spread.

That question is nonsense. A yard is only a length measure and no volume. A weight cannot be a length.

Normally when someone says "yards" like "yards of dirt" or "yards of concrete" they mean cubic yards. The 's dependent on what the commodity is 2.5 yards of mulch will weigh less than 2.5 yards of concrete.

To find this out, get a table and find out what a cubic foot of the commodity weighs, then multiply by 27 to find the weight per cubic yard, then multiply by 2.5 to get the weight you're looking for.

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Both power units and trailers come in many lengths. Bear in mind, a semi-trailer is simply a trailer which does not wholly support its own weight - thus, boat trailers, equipment trailers, etc. are semi trailers. But, for the sake of argument, we'll assume you're referring to a semi-trailer of the type intended to be pulled by a Class 8 truck and a Class 8 truck. Again, both come in varying lengths. Most commonly, 48 and 53 ft. trailers are seen, with a power unit which has a wheelbase between 220 and 270 inches (for a sleeper berth tractor). So you'd be looking at between 65 and 77 feet - some combinations are longer, some are shorter - but this is the "norm".

mars is has roughly half the gravational pull as earth so if you weigh 200 pounds then you will weigh roughly 100 pounds on mars so you will jump 2 times higher than you would on earth so yes you will kind of bounce on mars.