RTV Daily uses, What did you do today with your RTV?

I can see that with the longer bed it is easy to have the load not forward enough. The machine can certainly handle that load, it is just seems a bit too far back. I am always amazed at how well engineered RTV's are. I've had two over 11 years and, while I am respectful of the machine, I have asked it to do some hard work and never has it failed me. Between plowing snow, moving stone, gravel, loam, firewood and pulling boats out the Lake it has always performed well. Glad you seem to be enjoying putting your RTV to work.
 
I'm in very hilly country so I can't overload "too much" due to tip hazards.
Don't know about the newer machines but my RTV has rubber stoppers between the bed frame and machine frame. When they touch (at about 1000 pounds), I know I'm at max safe capacity.
 
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What I did with my RTV today:

Made my last payment! The 520 is paid off and officially my rig. Ordered the work light kits (front and rear) as a present for my new machine.
 
Our RTVX completely proved it’s worth on Sunday night when it assisted us and two neighbours to save our property from a bushfire that threatened us from the north.

Fire fighting is the primary purpose for which we bought the RTVX, and although we use it for many other purposes, it is superb on the fire grounds.

The RTVX carries a similar load to a light pickup and gets to places which would be inaccessible to a conventional vehicle. It is really easy for getting in and out of, and fast enough to get away in an emergency.

Ours carries 132 gallons, plus pump, hoses blowers, chainsaw and fire fighting gear. No problems. It won’t stop a fire front, but will put out a spot fire or localised burnover, and is great for extinguishing burning trees and logs as follow-up to back burning.

Working with two bushfires units, ours literally saved our property from burning on Monday morning…2fe7245c-aac7-4b35-9755-ebebfbf0093d.jpegf8c560b2-6de6-4e70-b9dd-38fc338070e4.jpegIMG_4718.jpeg
 
rbarger said:
It's that time of the year.
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My woodshed is across a creek that's hard to cross in the winter. I built a small pole building on the house side of the creek earlier this year. Spent a couple hours yesterday loading it with firewood. Will finish stocking it up today. Oh, the RTV wasn't used. I can haul more with an ATV with a 4x8' trailer.
 
I pressure washed mine this past weekend. She has never had a bath the 2 years I owned her. She was a diiiirtyyyyy girl. :moon3:I forgot the rims were dark gray. I thought they were black. The camo was getting harder to see with all the dust on her.
 
touras said:
What I did with my RTV today:

Made my last payment! The 520 is paid off and officially my rig. Ordered the work light kits (front and rear) as a present for my new machine.
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Got my work lights installed. Pretty happy with them. I found the headlights that come on the 520 are not great in the bush. These suckers are plenty bright.

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NT5224 said:
Update from me and our RTVX

So via the services of a freight forwarding company I received a seizmik front rack, folding windshield, seat covers and mirrors all purchased from Farm and Trail.

This all safely made it around the world from the east coast to our outback homestead. Even with freight charges, at a significant cost saving to trying to buy locally!

So everything is now fitted to the RTVX.

What did I think of the Seizmik accessories? Basically they’re great but there were a few problems. When I came to assemble windshield and rack there were some bolts and nuts and clips missing ( or they had shipped the wrong kind). It’s possible fixings may have dropped out when the packages were opened for customs inspections.

Also I needed to redrill holes that hadn’t been drilled correctly. Also sections of welded tubing had burr protruding inside that prevented insertion of other tubes until filed away.

So overall some minor quality issues -but nothing I couldn’t fix. I’d recommend the accessories I bought to other RTVX owners.

Haven’t ridden the vehicle much with them..View attachment 15539View attachment 15540

Cheers

Alan
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Curious if the front hood rack has a quick disconnect in order to access under the hood?
 
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