Who here has moved the heaviest load without brakes?

Ive done about 8,800 lbs (two pallets of block @ 2500 a piece, a pallet of cap @3000 lbs and a trailer (800 lbs?) to haul the cap and one pallet, other was in the bed of the truck)

I did this way too often while building a retaining wall.......when trying to stop it seemed like dragging your foot out the door would help.....):h Oh well, keep your eye on the road.

Im about to do a series of 5k loads of avocados for the next few days......but thats only about 5500 lbs free of brakes.......but the best part is the 24% grade I get to do first.......

I pry shouldnt even be typing this.......

Be sure to bring some chips with you so when you hit that wall you can have a nice avocado dip with the chips.:D

38000lbs with just the trucks brakes, fun going down a hill and having to stop halfway down to make a turn.

28,000 when trailer brakes failed. Truck stopped it remarkably well. No casualties except my shorts.

12 5'x5' round bales of hay, say 1000lbs each, trailer 3500lbs empty. Electric brakes failed intermittently due to grounding problem.

Nothing like fred-flintstoning through a red light... three times on the same trip.

machnegative, Ditto the shorts.

Grounding wire is what caused my brakes to "dissapear" I rewired the trailer the next day.

Sweet moses

Pulled my buddy's Donzi 36 as a favor ONE time- he hooked it up as I stayed in the truck. Dumba$$ didn't take the pin out of the surge brakes. Panic stop left strange brown marks in the shorts.

towing without brakes is not to smart IMO.

towing without brakes is not to smart IMO.

I don't think anyone disagrees with you, but sometimes you have to make due with what ya got and just adapt.

:grd:

A friend’s dad pulled 6 tons in an 83 Furd F250 EC LB with an I6. We fallowed behind him it pulled ok but he way blew the fist Stop sign IIRC he glazed over the brakes and boiled the fluid and that trucks brakes never worked right again.

With our old E350 Ford, the brakes failed on the trailer, probably about 9,000lb. Drove another 2 hrs and when I arrived at the destination, the brakes were smoking. Ended up cracking a front rotor. Not cheap.

"Panic stop left strange brown marks in the shorts."


:funnypost

I have nearly experienced the same phenomenon!!!

Towed our '97 Jeep TJ to Moab from ABQ, NM (about 325 miles one way) using our '01 F150 SuperCrew 4x4 (5.4L gasser) on a 16' flatbed without brakes. I estimate the Jeep and trailer weighed around 5,500 - 6,000 lbs. The truck did remarkably well, and had no issues with stopping. This was the first time I had ever towed a vehicle - I later found-out that NM has a weight limit of 3,000 lbs when towing without brakes.

That being said, I always thought that if a 1/2-ton gasser and a trailer without brakes did that well, a diesel truck with a better trailer would do that much better. Hence our purchase of the GMC.

Pulled a 13,000lb tractor from kansas back to colorado with no brakes, trailer wieghed in around 3700lbs.

About 6000 lbs., and I wasn't hauling anything. That was the time the brakes in my truck failed. ):h

buddys truck trans broke and i had to help him by towing a 47' triple engine founton sport crusier on a triple axle trailer that i found out had no brakes,,boat and trailer prob weighted 16,000-18,000lbs

I moved my sister in law once. Weight unknown, but quite heavy

Alright, I'm gonna play "2-upy"
Before we used semi-trucks to haul grain to town. We would hitch two wagons together and pull them with pickups :eek: Each wagon holds 350 bushels of corn x 56 lbs/bushel = 39,200 lbs, each wagon weighs maybe 2,000 lbs empty + 1991 dodge ram diesel truck 6,000 lbs for a grand total of 49,200 and no brakes on anything but the pickup. (when we haul soybeans use 60 lbs/bu. = 52,000 lbs)

I moved my sister in law once. Weight unknown, but quite heavy

The sister in law or the load???):h

last year my brother brought his new holland 1049 stacker wagon from central oregon to the farm here . his elevation 2500 or so top of mt. hood 4200 or so cornelius 200ft. driving his cummins one ton dodge stick with a borrowed duel tandem axle trailer. (who checks brakes when you borrow something he tells me) got here with load hose blew off turbo about five miles from house drove it here anyway just smoke you know. got new pickup brakes within two weeks due to warpage. stacker weighs arround 6 ton i would guess?