Towing Specs for Used Trucks?
 

Here's the site you need...

http://towrating.trailerboats.com/

Dan


Thanks! That's what I wanted!


Hey that's a neat hyperlink! Cool, I punched up the info on my 2000 Chevy
Silverado. Pulling a 17' trihull I/O weighing (boat/trailer) roughly 2100lbs
is nothing for my truck.

2000 Chevy Silverado LS shortbed
4.8L Vortec V8
5 speed manual tranny
2 wheel drive
factory trailer hitch/wiring harness

This is a heck of a truck! Good ol' "Made in the USA" pride here folks.... My
truck has a label in the driver's door jamb that says, "GM Fort Wayne, IN".

Butch Ammon

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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:47:44 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Dan Krueger wrote:

Union carpenters and materials from a small, union, lumberyard, right?

Harry Krause wrote:


Uh, I'm having the basement finished in a house I built last year.


Here's the site you need...

http://towrating.trailerboats.com/

Dan


The crews I have coming in are, indeed, union members. I have two union
carpenters to do the rough and finish carpentry, a union electrician and
an apprentice, and a union plumber, and when they are finished, a union
tilesetter. No and I mean no union contractors will touch residential
work in my area, so I usually call union business agents I know and ask
if they have some guys between jobs, or just coming back after an
injury. They usually do. I pay the hourly rate. I know enough tradesmen
now that I usually just call them direct and pay them the hourly rate. I
get top-drawer work and for less than the scab contractors charge.

Interesting and the only thing I will ever say on this subject.

Last year, we decided to have the fireplaces in the living room and
den torn down and completely redone. Because my wife is heavily
involved in Union activities, and because of the general reputation of
Union Masons, I did like Harry - called the Union hall and asked if
they had somebody between jobs who could do the work - same pay
rate and I'd pay two laborers to assist the Mason.

Worst experience of my life.The first one took two days just to take
down one fireplace taking a break every ten minutes - the laborers
were useless - they smoked in the house even when I asked them not to
and at the end of the second day, they just left a pile of crap in
the living room - I had to take it all out back. Needless to say I
was ****ed. I called the Union and complained, had a friend of mine
who is a IBEW big shot rattle some cages and they sent out another
three guys. These were marginally better and actually got one
fireplace done, but they would only work five hours a day and
afterwards had the freakin' nerve to bill me for eight.

I had the building inspector come out to inspect the fireplace before
I used it and he condemned it and showed me why - it was a whole
litany of things that were directly against building code. And it
wasn't an anti-union thing - nothing was mentioned as to who did the
job. The BI asked me if I had done it.

Here's the kicker - I had a non-Union mason contractor who did both
fireplaces in three days, used one laborer who worked like a banshee
and was one hell of a guy (methodone maintainence who was learning the
trade as he cleaned his life up) and it cost me slightly more than
what I paid the union people.

And it was done right.

Maybe I ran into a couple of losers or something, but it was less than
a positive experience.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
-----------
"Do fishermen eat avocados? This is a question
that no one ever thinks to ask."

Russel Chatham, "Dark Waters" (1988)

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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:48:48 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

That's what I'm looking for, price-wise. I know of a Cadillac Escalade
pickup truck auction coming up soon. It's a little light in the tow
capacity, but not much, and for reasons I won't go into here, the price
may be right. We'll see.
========================

What happened to the Tundra?

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:24:39 -0500 (EST), "Harry Krause"
wrote:

I still have the Tundra, but
only until about the third week of March

==================================

Too bad, I love my Tundra and don't know what I'd do without it. Even
my wife has come to appreciate it (at times). :-) I have about 40K
miles on it but most of that was from when I was commuting NY-NJ every
day.

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Harry Krause wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Looking for a resource that lists, among other things, towing specs for
used trucks or larger SUVs...

I've tried KBB and one or two other suchlikes, but no luck. I'm looking
for a decent mid 1990s vehicle that can tow 8000 pounds on a trailer
fairly short distances...maybe 25 miles one way. I know about Chevy
Suburbans...but I'd really prefer an older pick-me-up.

Might anyone suggest an on-line site that displays these capacities?

Thanks!

That's an interesting question. I found this years ago when I was
getting my third F-350 diesel. All the othe sites I had archived have
disappeared into the Lost Terrority of Cyberspace.

http://www.swcp.com/pcaskey/ford-towing.html

Minimum would be something in the 250/2500 class, best would be in the
350/3500 class.

I'll keep looking.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
-----------
"Do fishermen eat avocados? This is a question
that no one ever thinks to ask."

Russel Chatham, "Dark Waters" (1988)




Thanks. I don't tow my Parker far or often, and, at the moment, I am
almost truckless. I do have use for a pickup for the farm and yard and
for the occasional "tow job," but I certainly do not need a new, $40,000
pick-me-up truck.


You don't own the Parker you liar & it seems now your latest lie will
be a farm!!!

More lefty lies this is the type of person you will get running around
all over the US, always in the background, if anyone is silly enough to
vote democrat!!! It's true they're a bunch of simpleton liars & given
911 can you really put yourself?? your family? or the rest of us in the
free world at risk?? what??? so they can start doling out kickbacks to
the unions again??? so they can be appeasers so the terrorists think
they can get away with it again?? Under W they've had their arses kicked
& now the other despots are knocking on your door to surrender (Iran,Nth
Korea, Libya,etc etc). Come on these are serious times & you need to
keep your proper leader in place to finish the great job he's done so
far, they'll be time enough for brainless lefty idiots next time round.

You have to be the biggest BS the internet has.


K

Just as your "other" fantasy boat the 36ft lobster boat?? Since I've
been here you fabricate a new lie boat every year; so you can pretend
you're wealthy & a boat owner both of which you're not!! You're a lying
grub who works in the PR dept of a union rip off insurance Co too sad. I
suspect they're both boats owned by the charter skippers or union rip
off execs, your usual MO is to worm your way into their good graces so
you can hang around & post info as if the boats are actually yours (the
real lobster boat owner woke up to in a flash!!! you ran out of any info
much less any plausible info, just after launch:-)), but to any actual
owner of bigger boats, not enough to be the real owner, never.

Here's a touch of your lobster boat lies, gee you seem to have forgotten
all about that since you got people to believe the latest Parker lie,
but it's still a lie:-)

the new boat.
On the 36-footer, 16,000 pounds displacement:
QSM11 635 hp, 36.3 mph WOT, 32.1 mph at sustained cruise, marine
gear ratio of 1.77, turning a four blade 26x35 prop on a 2.50 inch
Aquamet 22 shaft. Too much engine.
QSM11 535 hp at 2300 rpm, 33.3 mph WOT, 29.5 mph at sustained
cruise of 2100 rpm, same gear ratio, 24x34 prop. Right on the money.
6CTA8.3 450 hp, 30.6 mph WOT, 27.5 mph at sustained cruise, 2.00:1
gear ratio, 24x31 four blade prop on Aquamet 22 2" shaft.
Cummins tells me its program is "about 8% too conservative."
Looks like the QSM11 535 will be the right engine. Its fuel use is
only a little more than the 450's and a lot less than the 635 hp engine.
What I want is a 30mph sustained cruise speed, and 535 hp will do it.
Cummins also figured the boat at 1000 pounds heavier than our target,
which is probably the smart thing to do.
Besides, the QSM is a new, all computerized design.

Then of course the usual Harry BS lies & boasts of how he & the purpose
commissioned naval architect got it all correct e.g.

The hull form is what got to me. The boat has a substantial keel
and it is a built-down keel, right to its bottom, not just "tacked" on.
It backs down beautifully. And it seems to roll one heck of a lot less
in a beam sea than the semi-vee 36 footers I've been on, and especially
some large deep vee fishing boats of about the same size its been my
pleasure to fish aboard. I believe it is a function of the keel and the
really low center of gravity.
Amazing, for a boat that is round bilged and fairly flat under the
transom. No chines. Just splash rails forward and aft. A soft, soft
ride...which is what I wanted.

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John H wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:22:03 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

John H wrote:

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Looking for a resource that lists, among other things, towing specs for
used trucks or larger SUVs...

I've tried KBB and one or two other suchlikes, but no luck. I'm looking
for a decent mid 1990s vehicle that can tow 8000 pounds on a trailer
fairly short distances...maybe 25 miles one way. I know about Chevy
Suburbans...but I'd really prefer an older pick-me-up.

Might anyone suggest an on-line site that displays these capacities?

Thanks!

Go here and click on towing capacity for the GMC trucks.

http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/ind...&location=tnav

Good luck.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Thanks, but those are new trucks...

So buy a new truck. But, buy American this time so you don't send more
jobs overseas.

John H

Surely you know that Harry's Toyota Tundra was made in the U.S.A., right?

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basskisser wrote:

John H wrote in message . ..

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:22:03 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


John H wrote:


On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Looking for a resource that lists, among other things, towing specs for
used trucks or larger SUVs...

I've tried KBB and one or two other suchlikes, but no luck. I'm looking
for a decent mid 1990s vehicle that can tow 8000 pounds on a trailer
fairly short distances...maybe 25 miles one way. I know about Chevy
Suburbans...but I'd really prefer an older pick-me-up.

Might anyone suggest an on-line site that displays these capacities?

Thanks!

Go here and click on towing capacity for the GMC trucks.

http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/ind...&location=tnav

Good luck.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Thanks, but those are new trucks...

So buy a new truck. But, buy American this time so you don't send more
jobs overseas.

John H


Surely you know that Harry's Toyota Tundra was made in the U.S.A., right?



Mr. Sabi, our green Tundra, has moved on to his second owner.

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I'm driving an '04 Tundra Double-cab that the dealership lent to me while
I'm waiting for my new Sequoia to be delivered. Pretty nice truck...but the
double cab is loooooooong. It doesnt' fit in my garage.

The new Sequoia is to replace an '02 that Toyota bought back from me due to
a Lemon Law claim. The vsc/trac light kept coming on and they couldn't fix
it in 7 attempts.

Toyota's never had those problems when they were built in Japan. ;-)


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
basskisser wrote:

John H wrote in message
. ..

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:22:03 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


John H wrote:


On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Looking for a resource that lists, among other things, towing specs
for
used trucks or larger SUVs...

I've tried KBB and one or two other suchlikes, but no luck. I'm
looking
for a decent mid 1990s vehicle that can tow 8000 pounds on a trailer
fairly short distances...maybe 25 miles one way. I know about Chevy
Suburbans...but I'd really prefer an older pick-me-up.

Might anyone suggest an on-line site that displays these capacities?

Thanks!

Go here and click on towing capacity for the GMC trucks.


http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/ind...Name=index&loc
ation=tnav

Good luck.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Thanks, but those are new trucks...

So buy a new truck. But, buy American this time so you don't send more
jobs overseas.

John H


Surely you know that Harry's Toyota Tundra was made in the U.S.A.,
right?



Mr. Sabi, our green Tundra, has moved on to his second owner.

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(NOYB)wrote The vsc/trac light kept coming on and they couldn't fix
it in 7 attempts.

Too stupid or too honest? IMO it gives new meaning to the term "Idiot
Light"

My Chebby dealer would've unplugged it!
LOL, UD




http://community.webtv.net/capuglyda...inUglyDansJack

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Harry Krause wrote in message ...
basskisser wrote:

John H wrote in message . ..

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:22:03 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


John H wrote:


On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Looking for a resource that lists, among other things, towing specs for
used trucks or larger SUVs...

I've tried KBB and one or two other suchlikes, but no luck. I'm looking
for a decent mid 1990s vehicle that can tow 8000 pounds on a trailer
fairly short distances...maybe 25 miles one way. I know about Chevy
Suburbans...but I'd really prefer an older pick-me-up.

Might anyone suggest an on-line site that displays these capacities?

Thanks!

Go here and click on towing capacity for the GMC trucks.

http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/ind...&location=tnav

Good luck.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Thanks, but those are new trucks...

So buy a new truck. But, buy American this time so you don't send more
jobs overseas.

John H


Surely you know that Harry's Toyota Tundra was made in the U.S.A., right?



Mr. Sabi, our green Tundra, has moved on to his second owner.

Why, Harry? Did you not like it, or do you just swap alot?