trailer tongue wt & towing

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texas papaw

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Considering buying a 900 rtv and was looking at a neighbors. On the rear receiver hitch it said max tongue wt 110#. Have a trailer that probably has a 200-250# tongue wt and a loaded gross wt of 15-1800#.

What is your opinion regarding the 900's ability to handle this trailer pulling it thru pastures while feeding cattle.

Thanks for your input.
 
Welcome to Net Tractor Talk texas papaw.

It appears to me that is too much weight. But if you try it let us know.
 
I would have no issues doing it, that's over it's rating but I put that on my RTV 500 with no issues...the diesel can definitely haul more. I pull my boat around the yard with my RTV 500 with no issues at 2400 lbs and the RTV doesn't struggle a bit. These things are way underrated.
 
Welcome ............... It's hard to believe that trailer has a tongue weight of 200-250 pounds. That is most probably the maximum recommended tongue weight when loaded. I have a 4 x 6 trailer with a GVWR of 2000 pound. It's on one of my quads all the time. The unloaded tongue weight of the trailer is about 35 pounds roughly 10% of the total weight of the trailer.

The maximum recommended tongue weight on damn near every trailer I ever owned was 10% of the GVWR, meaning you should never load the trailer with more than 10% load on the tongue.

The trailer isn't the problem pulling it around with your RTV. The issue is not to load it in excess of the RTV recommended tongue weight. If you where to use my trailer on your RTV, you could put a load of 750# on the trailer and meet your RTV maximum limit. (Trailer weight 350# and 750# load = 1100#. Loaded properly with weight distributed correctly equates to 110# of tongue weight.)

And then again you could load the trailer back heavy to get more on it and meet the 110# limit but it probably would pull like chit and yank the ass of the RTV around.
 
While it may not have much tongue weight I have moved hay wagons around with my 900 before. 150 bales on a big Pequea steel rack wagon. I would not try to go downhill with that much weight but it moved it around and into the barn OK.
 
Welcome to the forum.

I've put several hundred pounds of tongue weight on my RTV without issue.

Towing several thousand pounds hasn't been an issue either.

Can you borrow your neighbors RTV and strap on your trailer so can you get a feel for it?

BTW, do the new RTV's still use the 1" receiver for the hitch or are they now 2"?
 
Welcome Texas papaw. What kind of trailer do you have? Is it like a single axle or is it like an old cotton trailer type? Will you be pulling in real muddy conditions or do you have hard paths? What type of feed will you be putting out and how much? One time we had what was called a trip hopper. It was made in Texas and had a 12v motor that would feed out a chute. It bridged bad with our mix so we went a different way but we had it on a little but tall trailer. I am sure the RTV would have pulled it and the 1500 lbs it held. You would need mud tires if your pastures get muddy though. Dry pastures shouldn't be a problem. I have pulled a single axle , treated floor ,12' trailer loaded with gas welder , acetylene bottles supplies and steel work surface with no problems with the RTV.I also pull skidded mineral troughs .I will say we put out so much feed we now must use a tractor.I also did a "no no" and made a wire spinner to fit in the receiver hitch so I can put out electric fence wire soo easy (Where the land is flat)!!! A fellow cow person, Bordercollie
 
Thanks for the warm welcome and replies.

The trailer I have is a shop made single axle with a 750# capacity trip hopper feed box mounted slightly in front of the axle. Not sure of the tongue wt but it is too heavy to lift by hand when the box is full, so the 2-250# is just an estimate. Currently pull it with a suzuki samauri and the rtv would probably be my backup for pulling this feed trailer. It is pulled in the mud during our monsoons. I put about 500 miles/yr on the sami pulling the feeder. More hrs than miles when feeding. Based on other posts, it seems I would probably need deep tread tires like 589's or similar for the mud.

My neighbors rtv has the 1 1/4" receiver. Are some of the 900's equipped with 2"?

Thanks again
 
bczoom said:
Welcome to the forum.

I've put several hundred pounds of tongue weight on my RTV without issue.

Towing several thousand pounds hasn't been an issue either.

Can you borrow your neighbors RTV and strap on your trailer so can you get a feel for it?

BTW, do the new RTV's still use the 1" receiver for the hitch or are they now 2"?
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I would like to have a better rounded number to define "several". I'm not challenging the statements but I'm wondering just to what extent a 1900# vehicle will do.
 
I've filled the bed to over-flowing with #2 stone and carried it around and dumped. The frame met the rubber bumpers (limiters) but it did its business. I believe that load was approx. 1600#. I have had loads that were so heavy that the hydraulics of the tilt bed wouldn't dump it but the RTV itself handled the load.

As for towing, I don't have anything really heavy but I have medium loads and hills. For towing, I really can't quantify but I've yet to encounter a rolling load it couldn't pull. I haven't tried pulling DK-45's :hide: out of the mud and don't know if it would do it, but what would?
 
muleman said:
My 580K Case backhoe would pull that dk45 no problem! So would the John Deere.:shitHitsFan:
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I can say the same in reverse. You gents really have no idea just what the DK will do. Nothing runs like a Deere with a Kioti chasing it ............ :17875:
 
Ya'll remember me getting stuck a couple of weeks ago in the Cat 252B and having the Kioti DK40 pull me right out? Well , I did it again last week in another dried across pond. My B-I-L said I wasn't just stuck but stuck stuck. Just got too close (again) and the right side started sinking in the false dry appearing crust . This time though the Cat was stuck far worse with the muck up to the top of the right rear and half of the front right. the back left rear was off of the solid dirt under it and was close to being "very tippy ". I think it was what ya'll called the pucker factor? Well anyway the DK 40 came thru again. We pulled the Cat backwards with the 4wd DK and with a Big Big Load of Prayers, it managed to pull the heavy thing out. I am DONE cleaning out ponds. And I sure like my DK40. Bordercollie p.s. I agree Big Dog ,and that Kioti can sure chase a Cat too!!
 
As some one else said elsewhere on this forum....In order to be chased...you gotta' be in the front......
 
Had a large and healthy coyote wander through the back yard about a half hour ago...but our 10lb poodle scared him off:wave:
 
Kanook said:
Had a large and healthy coyote wander through the back yard about a half hour ago...but our 10lb poodle scared him off:wave:
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I'm to believe that ............ It's time for you to go pet your Bambi so it don't go running from the big bad poodle ............. :shit:
 
Big Dog said:
I'm to believe that ............ It's time for you to go pet your Bambi so it don't go running from the big bad poodle ............. :shit:
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Actually the poodle had some help from Bambi and his pal....ole wylie kioti didn't stand a chance:whistling:
 

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