Show us your tow rigs!

[Txbred]

6.2L Z71 Black Widow
She does alright.

 

[2kwik4u]

6.2L Z71 Black Widow
She does alright.

Love that color

 

[jthackman]

6.2L Z71 Black Widow
She does alright.

Does that have the 10-spd?

 

[Txbred]

Yes it does. Definitely a difference from the 8speed while pulling trailer/boat.

 

[zipper]

Got a heated steering wheel in your new rig? If so wait until you use that. It'll change you're outlook on luxury again!

Yep, hope to not experience that until a few months from now. Still enjoying the cooled seats at the moment.

Enjoying the heated steering wheel now as much as the cooled seats.

 

[2kwik4u]

Enjoying the heated steering wheel now as much as the cooled seats.

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Dude, the heated steering wheel seems SOOOOOO extranious when you first think about it. Once you use it for the first time, it changes you. It's freaking amazing!

Also, I remember that dash well. I miss my truck. The Q7 is nice, and fast, and pretty, but it feels so fragile compared to the pickup. The pickup just had this "bomb proof" feeling when I was driving it. I miss that. Oh well, maybe next time I can go back to the pickup.

 

[Babin Farms]

I miss my truck. The Q7 is nice, and fast, and pretty, but it feels so fragile compared to the pickup. The pickup just had this "bomb proof" feeling when I was driving it. I miss that. Oh well, maybe next time I can go back to the pickup.

Yep, same here. Feel like my truck is darn near bomb proof & I could not get by without it. I would rather have a vehicle with more than enough capabilities(towing/hauling) than to have a vehicle on the edge of its capabilities. As long as I have the cattle I'm going to have to stick with a 3/4 ton truck at a minimum. I don't think that anything smaller is going to handle some of the loads I haul quite as well and why put a smaller lighter duty vehicle through that much stress.

 

[adrianp89]

@Babin Farms Can you send some Filet down to FL?

 

[2kwik4u]

@Babin Farms Can you send some Filet down to FL?

No doubt!!

@Babin Farms I'm always curious why the 2500 pickups exist. Seems like the cost of ownership, purchase, and use are REALLY similar with a 3500 pickup. Why not go the extra step, get all the capabilities when the cost differential is arguably marginal. I mean CLEARLY there are plenty of people with 2500 class pickups, I just never really understood why. I drove a F350 SRW 4dr long bed for a few years for work. Never felt like it was any more costly or PIA to drive than the other 2500's we had in the fleet. No berating, just curious on your take since you clearly give yours a workout on a regular basis.

 

[Babin Farms]

I had a diesel 3500SRW before this truck I have now and it was overkill. Yes it got the job done but it also beat the ever living crap out of us on these great roads we have around here. It was to the point the kids dreaded taking it anywhere. When I got the truck I have now I was on the fence about a 1/2 or 3/4 ton but decided on the 3/4 due to what I mentioned above. If I hauled hay, cattle or heavy loads all of the time I would have probably gotten a 3500 but that's not the case for me so a 2500 works well. We take this truck everywhere due to the fact that it rides great, it's roomy and the visibility is better that the wife's Acadia IMO.

 

[kgower]

Picked a new tow vehicle today;
2021 GMC AT4 5.3L

 

[Jim_in_Delaware]

Dude, the heated steering wheel seems SOOOOOO extranious when you first think about it. Once you use it for the first time, it changes you. It's freaking amazing!

Never thought I needed a heated steering wheel or heated seats.

Then I got my 2020 Ram last fall, and now I don't know how I got though the last fourty-four winters without them!

Jim

 

[kgower]

6.2L Z71 Black Widow
She does alright.

Debated the 6.2L, had a 6.1L in my Denali so giving up a little with the 5.3L. The new truck weighs 2000lbs less , was $4K lower, gets 1-2 miles a gallon better milage and we have a 19' so should be ok. That said I also considered an HD but the dealer said it could be weeks or longer before the receive one and there's a waiting list. Sounds familiar.

 

[Babin Farms]

No doubt!!

@Babin Farms I'm always curious why the 2500 pickups exist. Seems like the cost of ownership, purchase, and use are REALLY similar with a 3500 pickup. Why not go the extra step, get all the capabilities when the cost differential is arguably marginal. I mean CLEARLY there are plenty of people with 2500 class pickups, I just never really understood why. I drove a F350 SRW 4dr long bed for a few years for work. Never felt like it was any more costly or PIA to drive than the other 2500's we had in the fleet. No berating, just curious on your take since you clearly give yours a workout on a regular basis.

The 3500 handled the loads a bit better but the 2500 get's the job done.
Here are some of the reasons I own a 2500 at a minimum.
12-14 roughly 2,000# bales at a time

5.5 pallets of retaining wall blocks X3 times

Tractors

GN Cattle trailer

 

[Babin Farms]

Here's a picture of my tow rig yesterday.

 

[2kwik4u]

@Babin Farms Feels like snow plow inception happening there.

 

[Babin Farms]

@Babin Farms Feels like snow plow inception happening there.

I'd be fine with little to no snow to move this year.

The truck on the trailer had just had it's box floor, box I-Beams and hoist replaced. While it was in the fab shop (2hrs away) it started leaking coolant into the oil so after they were done we decided it would be best to trailer it home.

 

[2kwik4u]

@Babin Farms I was looking at those 2500 pics again......Did you happen to catch a crop duster in action?!?!?

 

[Babin Farms]

@Babin Farms I was looking at those 2500 pics again......Did you happen to catch a crop duster in action?!?!?

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Yep. They miss my silo's and my big trees in the pasture by just a few feet when they're spraying the fields around the house.

 

[ShireRider]

2009 ram 2500 deleted, south bend clutch… 107,000 miles (got her at 24k) she doesn’t come out in the winter unless we are heading to Florida woth the boat.