Blew up the dually !!!!!!!!!!&

[3500duramax]

 

Well the little 350 finally bit the dust today. I went out into a lot were someone had there cattle. I was delivering round bales of hay to them and they wanted the bales way out on this sand hill. So i go out there and i make it up the hill in 2wd. Oh by the way this truck is a 1994 chevy 3500 extended cab 4x4. Well i go down the back side of the hill and thats were i drop off the bales. I decided to take the bumper pull cattle trailer. I loaded two in there with the backhoe. I drop um off and turn around go up and she is spinnin like a mother. Posi kickin and everything. So i put it in 4 high. So i nail it and i start goin up and then she slows and then i just set there and spin um. All four are spinning. Other guy that was out there comes over to see if he can help and then all the sudden i hear a nockin and a very loud nasty noise and that was it. She barely ran. Then time i got her home she didnt run at all. Ended up we had to pull it out with a tractor. Now the dually had a 350. thats the second one we have put in it. First one got a nockin noise in it at about 60,000 miles. I am now at 107,xxx miles. I have no clue why they put such a little motor in a one ton truck. I would pull the backhoe with the truck and floored it would go 40 if i was luckey. so i am going to put a used 454 we have at the farm in it and hopefully she will get up and go now.

[HendyPhoto]

How much do those big round bales of hay weigh? I have seen trucks pulling them and they look REAL heavy!

[3500duramax]

These bales tonight were wet bacause we were trying to get the hay up before the rain and these weighed every bit of a ton. Regualr dry round bales probably weigh about 1100 pounds.

[R Dogg 56]

Sorry to hear that. Are you going to use the '94 454 as the truck, or will it be a newer model?

[BDBWTE]

Well the little 350 finally bit the dust today. I went out into a lot were someone had there cattle. I was delivering round bales of hay to them and they wanted the bales way out on this sand hill. So i go out there and i make it up the hill in 2wd. Oh by the way this truck is a 1994 chevy 3500 extended cab 4x4. Well i go down the back side of the hill and thats were i drop off the bales. I decided to take the bumper pull cattle trailer. I loaded two in there with the backhoe. I drop um off and turn around go up and she is spinnin like a mother. Posi kickin and everything. So i put it in 4 high. So i nail it and i start goin up and then she slows and then i just set there and spin um. All four are spinning. Other guy that was out there comes over to see if he can help and then all the sudden i hear a nockin and a very loud nasty noise and that was it. She barely ran. Then time i got her home she didnt run at all. Ended up we had to pull it out with a tractor. Now the dually had a 350. thats the second one we have put in it. First one got a nockin noise in it at about 60,000 miles. I am now at 107,xxx miles. I have no clue why they put such a little motor in a one ton truck. I would pull the backhoe with the truck and floored it would go 40 if i was luckey. so i am going to put a used 454 we have at the farm in it and hopefully she will get up and go now.

The 350cid is a good little motor. But I agree that it is too little for a 1 ton truck, especially if you use your truck. My buddy who does small escavation bought two 95 cab and chasis trucks 3500HD old style trucks with the 350 and a 5spd. One has 145,000miles and is tired as hell and ready to cash out anyday. The other only has around 60,000miles and seems to be doing pretty good. But pushing those motors to 4-5,500rpms to get a load going and doing it alot wears on them fast. I noticed. Will see if the 366 in my HD does any better and if not I'll drop a 6.5 TD in their we have two sitting at the shop.

[Black02Silverado]

These bales tonight were wet bacause we were trying to get the hay up before the rain and these weighed every bit of a ton. Regualr dry round bales probably weigh about 1100 pounds.

I didn't think that they weighed that much. I carried one in the back of my 1500 and it didn't even seem to sit the back down at all and that was after a nice heavy rain came through. I had to get a bail a month for our horse from a friends farm. The total pain was getting the bail out of the truck this one time when it was loaded on the flat spot. Talk about a pain. I couldn't push up against the cab and it wasn't moving. I even tried backing up real fast and slamming on the brakes. No luck. I finally managed to push it out. Talk about getting tired, I was beat after that.

[Frank S]

It depends on how tight they are wrapped too.

 

The bails my parents produce from their land average about 1100 lbs.