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| I've owned them all, loved them all and hated them all. Hands down the most loved truck was a 07' Classic Durmax. Most hated was Dodge 14' Cummins with emissions crap. Most scared to own was Power stroke 19's and newer.
We have went to gassers, GM 6.0 and 6.6 with 6 speeds. Lot easier to work on, don't have to treat fuel. Running 08' to 22' models for ranch. 24' models GM 5.3 with 6 speeds in half tons. Knock on wood the 5.3's holding up.
Love dually's but tired of fighting desert mud in tires and traction with them. Because we go from mud to freeway driving all in same day sometimes 100-300+ miles a day. Used to have to haul backhoe with ton trucks, switched to mini-ex's and bumper pull trailers or gooseneck trailers with single axle pickups. Same with taking skidsteers to jobs.
For bigger stuff load on semi and go, a lot safer. I can get to the wreck just as fast in a Chevy gasser as I do a Ford Stroker. Only places I lack in torque is 7-8 thousand foot level pulling loaded stock trailers in rough two track dirt road up hills with gassers. We can live with some of that with less maintenance costs.
Hands down lot easier to mount engine driven pumps on the gassers for balebeds. We have deicided we don't need diesels to be cool we can get the same job done without diesels. Plus also use our single axle semi's to pull some equipment around lot safer.
Far as trailers we pull 20' and 24' steel stock trailers, we love aluminum but at 10 year mark we get stress and metal fatigue. Steel is more forgiving. Pain in the butt to clean floors in metal trailers vs. aluminum. We can live with that vs. all the repairs on aluminum. 25' dually tandem G/N for flatbed trailers and heavy bumper pull trailers for skidders and mini-ex's.
I tell people don't do what we do, but it works for us.
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Gas to Diesel Transition for Hay
