John Deere Dump Trailer Model 15 Discussions and Reviews

I live on 5 acres of sloped land and need a bunch of french drains and ditches, terracing/retaining walls, and clearing some paths. I have a 20 year onetime Model 855 Tractor with a tiller, blade, and box scraper I've used for clearing, woodcutting, snow etc, but its getting crush and tired and I want something with a bucket and pollex. I have a GMC 2500hd Duramax/Allison rated to tow 14k, and a dual axle trailer westward/5000lb max payload.
I was considering trading up to a new tractor with a backhoe, and possibly a dump trailer beefy enough to booty information technology. Then my buddy - who has been a union operator for 20 years at a reputable company I know from other sources - suggested getting a 35g excavator and doing side jobs. The commercial market is hot hither in Seattle and he felt confident that if we went with a 50g, we could practise side jobs and even charter the machine back to his company and pay for it in a twelvemonth or 2. He spends a lot of time running the 50g and says it really is the **** they like.

My married woman is an accountant and we could depreciate a new car in the first year if it had commercial employ, and get aught-down zero interest 72 calendar month financing from Deere. That would close the gap between new/used real quick. I'yard 56 and sick of working in an role and commuting 3 hours/twenty-four hours, and this could be a real retirement alternative for me.

Nosotros can authorize/beget the 50g, the prophylactic side of me would prefer to pay greenbacks for a used 35g I can booty with my truck and an upgraded trailer. But am not certain if the 35g is "big enough" to handle the rock walls and stumps I'll need to deal with, or if I want to deal with maintaining a used machine.

What are your thoughts on this? Is the 35g sufficient for my holding needs? Would I need to move upward to the 50g to arrive realistic for commercial uses? Any gotchas I need to be aware of with leasing it to local companies, and using it in my yard on weekends?
35g is nice and is small....and light...50g you need meliorate trailer and does not haul well in dump trailer. 35 hauls very nicely in dump trailer. We built rock walls all the time with a 35....mind you the 80 has amend reach...only 35 does it well
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Batkom Well-Known Member

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Get the fifty, and a 16 ft gooseneck dump triple axle trailer.
Will tow fine.
Actually the fifty would tow fine in a 14 ft std hitch dump trailer. I towed mine behind a unmarried rear cycle F350 7.iii power Joke and xiv ft dump.
But the gooseneck is much nicer to tow. Got the gooseneck xvi ft dump when I bought a 60G

I personally would never want a machine smaller than a 50.
I rented 35 size machines and e'er pushed them past there limits to get the job done.
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Rental means crush till the rope is out and add some string and hope to it in other words I dont ain it not my problem. Big companies turn atomic number 26 over because the corruption adds to the toll of ownership when they get up in hours. Owner operators can put double or triple the hours on a machine and possibly not have anything more than regular maintenance.
35g is a pretty solid car so are the 50s just personally I would purchase a 35 before a fifty if I buy a l I might as well buy a backhoe

I have a 17g and when you learn what it can exercise information technology's astonishing 35s are in the same category

Your putting a lot of promise and money into an idea that sou d like its all speculative not saying it wont work just if I was going to driblet lx grand on a machine I would either pay greenbacks and no one but me would touch on it or have customers already lined up that you tin make money off of

Just my.02
I have a u 25, e35, kx080. If i could only accept i..information technology would exist the 35...it can practise ninety % of the work needed...and fits in little trails...like shooting fish in a barrel to haul...cheap on fuel...and really handy with a pollex. Yep my fourscore has reach..lift capacity...but hard to booty...and does non fit on my residence yards ...u25 is great under eaves...only place we use it....everything else is 35