Big Sky Country | exdairyguy - 5/16/2026 23:35
I bought a 50 ft wilson tandem close to 10 years ago. Only works for us because we have someone home doing the work while I'm gone with it. Haul probably 30 loads of fats a year. Mainly to cargill in Schuyler. 4 hours away. Get a few to Green Bay also and that's a 22 hour round trip.
Should have a big pile of cash laying around somewhere from all the money we've saved over the years but haven't stumbled across it yet.
Things I've learned. Very Easy to be overweight, 475 HP CAT is just enough, started out with a 370 N14 . DO NOT run recap tires on it. Minimum light package is good enough.
In business for under $30k . Trailer was $10k when I got it. 07kw t600 under $20. Check on cargo insurance
Pull like a stone boat—-and we got wind! Stopped for lunch in East Glacier the other day——always admire the RR windbreak on S side of town——installed after some RRvcars blew off the track—
BIL had his pot blow over a ways from there——neighbor would take their older shorter steel trailer on days like that—
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Pitfalls of owning older cattle pots
