The Farm Truck Thread!

[Nesikep]

I put my truck through it's paces this week hauling the calves, about 24,000 lbs total weight, and I never had to drive under 50 MPH unless it was too curvy a road to subject the calves to. No one fell or slipped and they were remarkably clean when they got to the barn. I did have a chuckle about a guy tailgating me for a while, then suddenly I saw him washing the heck out of his windshield... Bet he had fun washing the rest of his car the next time

I have the NV4500 manual tranny, might get the NV5600 from a friend in exchange for an engine build.

I've had many people ask me if I was a "Dodge guy".. Like Calhoun, I say Nope, I'm a cummins guy

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I like the dodge or now ram truck the best of all 3, but like y'all it wouldn't matter if I hated the truck, I would buy one for the engine. A duramax would be my second choice, but I don't want one. And IMO ford hasn't offered a good diesel In the last 12 years.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

How many of you cummins guys have manuals? Out of 5 cummins trucks I've owned only one was an auto.

Mine is a Manual, but you already knew that ;-).

 

[Nesikep]

My dad's 93 that we're rebuilding is an auto... it's a grocery getter for the most part and won't be towing much, so it's just fine.

 

[Littlejohn]

Not as fast or as nice as some of the other trucks on here, but It will pull a load of hay

 

[Nesikep]

I bet it does it for longer hours with less gimmickry to go wrong though!

 

[jltrent]

Here is my 02 PSD with 27000 miles on the ticker

 

[highgrit]

My other Rams had stick shifts and they stunk for me. I can't drink coffee or talk on the phone, or eat while driving, but what I missed most is having my arm around my wife while driving. A stick shift is for single folks. But if I was buying a truck to just pull with a stick shift would be my choice.

 

[Calhoun Farm]

I'd say you could sell that 7.3 trent for almost what you paid for it. Dealers would be at your mercy.

 

[highgrit]

We only had three 7.3's Powerstrokes and everyone had minor issues. And about to 300k was their limit when hauling a hotshot trailer regularly. The truck was the best in their day, but the engine could never stand up to a Cummins.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Not as fast or as nice as some of the other trucks on here, but It will pull a load of hay

I see that I am not the only one using a medium duty. I use a f-800 with a 16 ft bed to haul hay. Works great for me. I hook a 24 ft trailer to it on the fields that I can get into, and just drop the trailer for the tight fields.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

My other Rams had stick shifts and they stunk for me. I can't drink coffee or talk on the phone, or eat while driving, but what I missed most is having my arm around my wife while driving. A stick shift is for single folks. But if I was buying a truck to just pull with a stick shift would be my choice.

I prefer a manual, main reason is about 6mpg better than a comparable truck to mine in a auto, and I like driving one. But in these brand new trucks I think there are some autos that would be just pretty fine for pulling. Don't want one and I won't own a auto until that's all that's offered in new dodges, hopefully I can buy one more new truck before they do like ford and GM.

 

[jedstivers]

My other Rams had stick shifts and they stunk for me. I can't drink coffee or talk on the phone, or eat while driving, but what I missed most is having my arm around my wife while driving. A stick shift is for single folks. But if I was buying a truck to just pull with a stick shift would be my choice.

I prefer a manual, main reason is about 6mpg better than a comparable truck to mine in a auto, and I like driving one. But in these brand new trucks I think there are some autos that would be just pretty fine for pulling. Don't want one and I won't own a auto until that's all that's offered in new dodges, hopefully I can buy one more new truck before they do like ford and GM.

I banned all manual's from the farm probably before you were born Denver. To many people couldn't drive them and we were always putting in clutches. I think in the last 25 or so years we've had 2-3 auto's fail.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I agree Jed, I see no advantage to pulling with a manual anymore. I just like driving one. My 07 dodge has 172k on it and it's went through 2 clutches. If I had bought it with the aisin wouldn't have had that and probably wouldn't have touched that transimission yet.

 

[Nesikep]

They have Aisin trannies for the autos now? Mazda used to run them (maybe still) and I abused those things hard and they stood up pretty good... On my buddy's car they held up to 875 RWHP on the drag strip, I never got to those numbers though

 

[Bigfoot]

I hadn't looked at new trucks since 07. I understand they have jumped in price considerably since then. When I bought my Chevy in 07, a manual transmission wasn't available. Can I get one now?

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I hadn't looked at new trucks since 07. I understand they have jumped in price considerably since then. When I bought my Chevy in 07, a manual transmission wasn't available. Can I get one now?

You can not get a Manuel in anything except a dodge.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

They have Aisin trannies for the autos now? Mazda used to run them (maybe still) and I abused those things hard and they stood up pretty good... On my buddy's car they held up to 875 RWHP on the drag strip, I never got to those numbers though

Yes, the aisin came along when the 6.7 engine came out.

 

[Nesikep]

I just don't like the feel of an auto tranny, especially when hauling loads. For me it's not a big deal to shift, usually it gets into 5th and stays there for the entire trip

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I just don't like the feel of an auto tranny, especially when hauling loads. For me it's not a big deal to shift, usually it gets into 5th and stays there for the entire trip

I'm the same way, I don't believe the autos are bad, I just don't like driving them.