Hauling firewood: Rear suspension issue.

Newer generation STIHL saws: 461...362 etc. run just fine with new emissions compliance do-dads.
They're no hopped up multi-port exhaust xx0 series saws that you can hear from clear across the holler but they'll get a job done....maybe just a little be quieter.

It's the M-Tronic (computer controlled / regulated carburetors) that I steer clear of.

 

I appreciate all of the replies, and the message is clear. I think I'll get one of these. It's $649 at Lowes. I'm not 100% in love with the 12" tires, or the 1 7/8" ball coupler, but what the heck.

The load capacity is 1625 lbs.

Charlie

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Charlie

 

Immediately thought of this thread when I saw this guy

 

Not a bad trailer.
Keep an eye out on craigslist and any buy/sell apps for a good deal.

 

I have one identical to that. If you haul anything very heavy you’ll need to put a sheet of plywood over that mesh floor, it damages easily.

 

Thanks. I had a smaller one like that a few years ago. 5 X 6 I think. I used it to haul a lawn tractor back and forth between my house and my mom's. So I'm hip.

Charlie

 

Good choice of going with a trailer vs upgrading the stock suspension for heavy payloads. There are much more risks of costly negatives when you haul close to the Tacoma's payload even with airbags, leafs, etc.. Transmission/wheel bearing failures, tire blowouts, braking/steering issues to name a few. It's like slamming a monster energy drink down, put on a lifting belt and walk up to a squat rack loaded 50lbs past your 1 rep max with no spotter and mentally thinking,"Yeah, I f**kin' got this!"

 

You won't blow out a transmission by hauling more weight in the bed. Even if more weight could cause a transmission to fail (the power comes from the ENGINE, not the load), moving it from the truck bed to a trailer will change nothing. In fact, such an imaginary problem would only be worse with a trailer, since you're adding the weight of the trailer. And wheel bearing failure is also very unlikely, since with a load, you are likely going to drive slower and more gently than without a load. Driving with a load could therefore actually be EASIER on the bearings than without.

Eh? Even the Dunlop AT20's these things come with have a payload capacity of 2271 pounds per tire. That puts you at 4542 pounds per axle. Rear axle carries LESS than half of the truck's 4000 pound weight (i.e., less than 2000 pounds), leaving **MORE THAN** 2542 pounds payload capacity remaining per the crappy factory tires.

So even with the shittiest tires available, that consideration is not even on the radar.

The "Unbraked TWR" is only 1000 pounds. That's LOWER THAN THE PAYLOAD CAPACITY. So that is NOT going to save you from "braking/steering issues" -- which you won't have unless you are a complete retard in how you load it. Balance the weight FORWARD of the rear axle and there won't be any problems.

 

Good Grief! There is no way I would have loaded a truck that tail-heavy!

My firewood loaded Taco didn't come close to looking like that. It's true that the rear suspension was on the stops, but the load was mostly forward of the axle, and the nose was still in its normal attitude. I wish I had taken a pic.

Charlie