Whats the most you have towed?

Towed a 5T digger a couple of miles from the main farm to another, went around a bend met a neighbour in his vauxhall pickup. Could swear that when I braked and it all locked up I was going faster than before I braked. Anyway it wrote his pickup off and did a bit of cosmetic damage to the landy. It's not the TOWING it's the STOPPING that's the problem.

towed a 7.5 ton lorry on tuesday up hill in the snow, no problem

Towed an oil tanker up the hill out of the village in last winter's snow.
Driver reckoned he was 27 tonne all up.

I'll recover a stuck vehicle of equivalent size or a trailer but have given up pulling larger trucks out of the snow - dragging a Morrisons artic up over Warden Hill a couple years back was what most probably helped speed up the early demise of the R380 box, don't forget (like I did) that the internal components of a gearbox do have their limits

most barn fires aint hay getting wet ... its hay that aint been dried proper in the first place , the remaining sap in the stems decomposes and its that which causes the heat for self combustion. tis an art to get it right good hay should heat a wee bit ... if its too dry the leaf gets brittle and shatters too dust.

some horsey peeps reckon dry hay is too dusty for sensitive nags so damp it before feeding.

I towed a fully laden tanker up the A38 between Churchill and Axbridge after it lost traction and slid backwards down a hill jackknifing in the process.

I've towed most of the companies trucks at various different times after they have got stuck in snow, water, mud etc. They are pretty much all between 6.5ton and 17 ton.

ive towed a friends cessana cub which is about 890 lb just to see if my 90 could handle it , and they can, go over there factory recomendation towing Capability if you have enough power !

the biggest i have towed is a star 660 with about 5 or 6 tons of wood on the back the front propshaft uj went not good so i had to tow it

CJ2a said:

the biggest i have towed is a star 660 with about 5 or 6 tons of wood on the back the front propshaft uj went not good so i had to tow it

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Pfffft

30 odd tonne artic

A loaded Luton Box van up a decent hill which was covered in snow and ice. Not something I'd like to do a lot and since then I've only ever pulled small vehicles around. The only over big thing I towed was a makeshift trailer/float thing with a Santa sleigh/reindeer on it, covered in lights and had a generator onboard. No idea on weight but no doubt I was outside the limits of my licence. My 38 didn't struggle in any way though. If I see it around Scarborough this year I'll take some snaps of it. Is a large bastid though.

qubec45 said:

ive towed a friends cessana cub which is about 890 lb just to see if my 90 could handle it , and they can, go over there factory recomendation towing Capability if you have enough power !

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890lbs? that is only about as much as Ratty weighs after a chip supper

qubec45 said:

ive towed a friends cessana cub which is about 890 lb just to see if my 90 could handle it , and they can, go over there factory recomendation towing Capability if you have enough power !

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did you mean 8900lb?? 890lb is less than 1/2 a tonne

the landrover can actually tow quite a bit, the 3500kgs is the limit as that is the max for an independantly braked trailer.
IIRC, cant find the exact figure atm, but it can tow up to 7T if you have a linked braking system installed, ie the fender can pull plenty, its the stopping it cant do!

Pulled a fully laden Tesco artic up a reasonably steep hill in the snow a couple of years back in my old Disco.
A standard (bar a set of A/T's) Disco had a go and failed so I thought I'd have a bash. Gripped and went up in low range no problem. Gotta love extreme MUDs

Co-Pang-Yang said:

Pulled a fully laden Tesco artic up a reasonably steep hill in the snow a couple of years back in my old Disco.
A standard (bar a set of A/T's) Disco had a go and failed so I thought I'd have a bash. Gripped and went up in low range no problem. Gotta love extreme MUDs

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Seen a video on youtube of a tesco truckin being towed up slip ranp by a disco in snow with muds on! Was that you?

An as much as I've love to say it was I don't think so.
This was done on a hill in Colchester, have a picture on my laptop though it's crap cause it was in the dark lol

Bromsgrove Defender said:

Pfffft

30 odd tonne artic

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laugh all you like but that is quite a lot of weight to pull and winch offroad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8Q2x_FiQA this is a star 660 and they are suprisingly heavy

Here's how not to do it!!

Land Rover Discovery Destroys Tow Truck (short) - YouTube

well , 28 tonnes was as much as i was happy to pull really, but as yer kno the rolling weight of a vehicle is far less than its actual weight, i can push a 4 tonne tractor down the yard but obviously cant lift it off the floor, so the 30 tonnes of lorry becomes far less when its moving,

i tow a 3.5 t loaded ifor plant trailer with the 90 mosr days

Lakes Rob said:

Here's how not to do it!!

Land Rover Discovery Destroys Tow Truck (short) - YouTube

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Haha, that truck musta have been rotted to hell underneath to go like that