TC Report -- Time to go milling!
Ready to get underway to the next milling job 100miles from home. Camper packed and ready, mill loaded up and ready and I headed to the scales. Without the mill in tow and no mill gear in the ba...
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emcvay wrote:Kayteg1 wrote:
So now you REALLY know what 100 lb on ball placed 8 ft behind rear axle can do :)
When I picked my 12 ft camper with SRW, I had way more overweight on tires than you did, yet drove 2000 miles home just fine. I bought new tires just for the trip.
Nice mill. I used to have dual blade mill years ago, but that was lot of hassle to use.
How long did you drive it like that? Or are you still?
I think being 40lbs over on the two rears is probably not as much a concern as some think and I only am there when towing the mill so perhaps not too much worry ;) Though i tow the mill 8 to 10k a year.
I bought the camper 2000 miles from home and knew SRW will be stretch and that is why I bought new tires and put spare on front bumper, but drove via scales 40 miles from the seller on both ways.
The winterized camper overloaded my rear tires by more than 200 lb each. Still having confidence in good tires (I choose the highest load capacity I could find in the size), I pumped them them to max and drove home just fine.
Later I moved batteries on front bumper, removed rear generator so even with water I was on the rear tires margin, but still basement camper sitting on flatbed went 13-6 high and I could not stand vision of tire blew up.
Couple months later I bought dually.
If you think you'll be OK with your set in tire blow up, good for you.
