What is your largest load on the RTV yet?

[DocGP]

I was filling the deer feeders a few weeks ago at the lease, and was a bit disappointed in my RTV 900 until I got to thinking about what I had on it. I was making my way to a feeder when I came across a hill that was about a 45 degree incline around 50 yds long. So, I put it in low and headed up. Well it bogged down more than I would have liked, but did climb it. I sat at the top looking down a bit frustrated, then started looking at my rig. I had 600 lbs of corn in the bed, a full 80qt cooler, 2-5 gallon Spectre water cans also. I had 100 lbs of corn on the front rack, and my fat butt in the cab (240). SO, best I can figure I had her bogged down with about 1000 lbs. I also got to thinking it has not had the break in service done, and I haven't cleaned (removed) the spark arrestor.

Have since taken care of the service issue, and will address the spark arrestor after new years. I am not all that concerned with the performance when I figured the weight of the RTV plus 1000 lbs of cargo going up hill with no 4 wd or diff lock in the back.

How much have you had on your RTV? Conditions?

I always like to know what it will do.

Doc

 

[bczoom]

The most weight I've ever carried was when I filled the bed with as much crushed limestone as it would carry.
Figuring limestone is just under 100# per sq/ft, I'd say I was hauling over 2000#. It squatted but pulled it fine but I only had a slight hill to climb. It didn't like dumping it but it did it anyway.

 

[DIXIEDOG]

The heaviest load I've put on mine was my 18'6" fiberglass bass rig. It's over 2500 lbs but that's all I know on the weight. The little 500 handled it great, I did have to use low range but given my boat is likely at least twice the rated towing capacity of the buggy I guess I'll live with it.

 

[SpudHauler]

My brother in-law says he had this roller weighed and reports 4200 lbs. It's a real good pull, but does roll not too bad, harder to move in soft soil conditions. And pushes the RTV when slowing on a down hill.
It is actually the front roller and steering yoke off a pavment roller. And it can be filled with water if you need more weight!

 

[Red Beard]

You guy's are CRUEL and INHUMAIN!!! Wasn't going to do it, but, got a load and pull I now have to report on our Gator HPX 4x4. About the first week we had it we were about 4mi from home pulling it with an old 3/4 ton Dodge on a 20ft tri axle trailer when the old truck gave out! The truck and Gator changed places (Winched truck onto trailer) and we came home, over some pretty good hills. A couple yrs ago my son drove a loaded semi tractor and trailer over our septic drain field. One thing lead to another (Couldn't get a pumper out and it was too cold to keep using the out house) so I Pumped the tank into a 275gal tote on the Gator about 6 times, spreading it on the field about 1/2 mi off the road. Only got stuck once (burried gator), then my 350 Fd 4x4 (past the frame). The 1850 Oliver was just barely able to get them out, one at a time. I'm sure you guy's have some embarassing stories of abusing your pretty orange things also!

 

[Red Beard]

Might have been a bit dramatic there! Can't really tow a trailer with a load like that with a Gator. It would probably get sort've light on the front end sometimes. I hooked a strap to the Dodge and towed both of them, like a train. The drive belt didn't smoke too much! Second...The front end DOES get very light with 275 gal of liquid on the back. and third,.

 

[MaineGN]

Not sure of the weight, but I've rounded up the bed with wet blue clay right out of the ground while digging my pond out. The 900 squat but hauled it off and dumped it like a pro.

 

[Doc]

Interesting posts.

Boy that is some roller spud hauler!!!!! I could use one like that.

 

[Kerry]

concrete slabs

I had to jack hammer out my front porch as the concrete had dropped and sloped to the house.

I would alternate using the bucket on my 4240 HST and the RTV. While off dumping the workers would fill up the other. They had the bed of the RTV filled to the brim and mounded high with concrete. She new she had a full load but did not seem to care one bit driving to the dump site. No problems at all with the dump hydraulics.

Kerry

 

[1pump]

Never had much in the bed, but I pulled a 4500lb boat around for a short distance. I didn't like doing it, and I don't think I will again. That was a lot of strain on that little hitch receiver on that funky rear axle.

 

[bczoom]

Never had much in the bed, but I pulled a 4500lb boat around for a short distance. I didn't like doing it, and I don't think I will again. That was a lot of strain on that little hitch receiver on that funky rear axle.

It sounds like your issue was tongue weight.

I try to be careful on the tongue weight but would believe the RTV wouldn't have issue pulling that load if the tongue weight wasn't bad. Stopping may be another matter.

 

[Peanut]

Might have been a bit dramatic there! Can't really tow a trailer with a load like that with a Gator. It would probably get sort've light on the front end sometimes. I hooked a strap to the Dodge and towed both of them, like a train. The drive belt didn't smoke too much! Second...The front end DOES get very light with 275 gal of liquid on the back. and third,.

i pulled a trailer with just over 5k lbs of scrap iron in it the trailer was a 16' double axle and it's weight is just over 1500lbs add that to the over 5k lbs in iron and well you end up with a bent reciever but she pulled the trailer and did it in the mud to boot i have pictures of it i can dig up if needed.the way i know how much the load was is when i sold the iron thats what they eighed it at

 

[Peanut]

here's some pictures of the load i pulled with the hpx and the mud hole i pulled it through to get it to my truck.

By hpx4x4man at 2008-08-23

By hpx4x4man at 2008-08-23

By hpx4x4man at 2008-08-23

By hpx4x4man at 2008-08-23

 

[muleman RIP]

I have pulled full wagon loads of hay with mine but that was on mostly level ground. 180 bales in a steel framed bale wagon. It is handy for pulling them in and out of the barn. I have also raked hay with it pulling a NH 256 side delivery rake.

 

[Peanut]

i'll tell you this when we go out to service an offshore crane or build a new one we always downrate it to half of what it can really pull and i'm certain the utv companies do the same so if it says you can pull 2klbs i bet you can pull 4klbs easy not that i would push it but it can do it just like my hpx had a rateing of i think 2klbs i constantly pulled 5klbs around alot and it never hurted anything (but it did bend that little 1-1/2 reciever i think there wouldn't have been any thing go bad if it had a full 2" reviever.

 

[logfarmer]

Im not sure what the wieght was but Ive had mine filled to overflowing with wet sand and gravel from a quarry we have on our place. It was falling over the front of the bed onto the engine so I put a 1x5 bang board on the front to keep the gravel in and filled it fuller yet.
It was allso necessary to assist the bed to reaise by lifting by hand to help it or by pulling some of the gravel off the bed so it would be light enough to dump.
Then I noticed that the springs were competely compressed and the bed was riding on the rubber bumpers. Since then I have not been putting as much into the bed and have stopped thinking of it as a dump truck. Im not sure if it is designed to rest on those bumpers when fully loaded and didnt want to take a chance of breaking something.
Martin

 

[vfr700f2]

Bringing up this old thread... I have 4 RTV900s that I use to tow passenger trams on a school campus. The trailers weigh about 2200LB for the pair, and 35 middle- and high-school kids are around 5000LB. They run on pavement, pretty flat ground, and do the job effortlessly.

My trailers have 4 wheels, like a hay wagon, so there's no tongue weight. Below is a pic of an RTV1140 we demoed. I need to take pics of my 900s, especially since they're painted to match the trailers.

 

[TWO GUNS]

Clean filters, spark arrestor out or cleaned, good quality fuel, proper tire pressure, good clean Super UDT trans fluids.

I will put the RTV against anything. We have pulled tandem trailer loads of corn threw the swamps filling up deer feeders. Leveling out the trailer with the barrels so there was no much tongue weight.

Ground soft or muddy, in low, that baby will crawl. She will go threw the
swamps like a mad spider.

My RTV is not a speed demon, put will pull it's butt off !!!! That is what I bought it for.

........... two guns

 

[Heatwave]

Friend of mine has a funeral home business. He uses RTV 900s to hold the dirt that is backhoed out of the ground to make a grave. He has high stakesides on the sides and front of his RTV bed ... as high as the RTV roofline. He (well, his grave opening crew) fills the rig with all the dirt that is removed from a 6' deep grave (red Mississippi clay ... somebody do the math here), and drives the loaded rig off to the cemetery edge, outta sight. After everyone clears out following the graveside services, the crew drives the RTV back to the grave and dumps the dirt into and atop the opening. I have no idea what the weight is, but I used to tell him that it's too much for his RTV900. I know now to keep my mouth shut and let the RTV do its thing.

 

[TWO GUNS]

...... hey Peanut

..... makes one think if your sister in Rusty Avil's RTV has got us beat on the RTV load limit.