My new truck on the job

[fool32696]

pulls a lot better than my ranger 4 banger

[Lawn Masters]

Nice truck. did you do that lawn?

[LawnBoy89]

Sweet truck man. I hope he did that lawn otherwise he better get out of there quick.

[fool32696]

Yup, I mowed it. Really nice piece of property out in the country on a hill.

[BCSteel]

Do you always drive all over your customers lawns ;)

[fool32696]

Yes, actually sometimes I do doughnuts just to see what they say. There is no driveway to the house and my customer drives his F350 dually all over the property. The grass is bahia and the ground is hardpack so no damage done. I would not dare pull onto grass in a subdivision (I have seen a few do it and it looks very unprofessional). Also the owner lives in New York and is only down every few months. If I thought that he would remotely care I wouldn't do it. My truck is between the road and his barn and It's basically the only way to get the the barn (where he keeps his spare vehicles, that didn't fly there). The only reason that there are no visible tracks is because nobody even lives there. If I had parked my truck on a half acre lot on St. Augustine I would understand, but please keep your negative opinions to youself if you don't know the whole story.

[PLM-1]

Do I see a Duramax badge?? :cool2: I wish I had some HUGE properties like that. How many acres of that do you cut??

[fool32696]

Yes thats a dmax with an allison and I think the property is a little over 3 acres. All of the rain we're having here really has it looking good.

[BCSteel]

but please keep your negative opinions to youself if you don't know the whole story.

Get a life. It was obviously a sarcastic comment.

[PLM-1]

Get a life. It was obviously a sarcastic comment.

It didn't seem sarcastic IMO. I probably would have gotten defensive as well.

Be good kids!! :rolleyes:

[climber]

I love that truck I want one of my own. So I take it that its 2500HD And not a duramax if I'm correct. O and are you running the gravely 260z?
Thx Dan

[PLM-1]

I love that truck I want one of my own. So I take it that its 2500HD And not a duramax if I'm correct. O and are you running the gravely 260z?
Thx Dan

Yes thats a dmax with an allison and I think the property is a little over 3 acres. All of the rain we're having here really has it looking good.

It would be a Dmax! Hot stuff!

[lawnrangeralaska]

dodge trucks are nicer

[ztoro]

It didn't seem sarcastic IMO. I probably would have gotten defensive as well.

Be good kids!! :rolleyes:


it seemed sarcastic to me.........

[fool32696]

I'm actually running a Gravely 250z, probably should have gotten 260. My friend has a 2004 Dodge Cummins 4x4 and I love that truck. I'd prefer the cummins over my Dmax but I had just heard way to many bad things about Dodge automatic trannys.

[Scapegoat]

The Cummins is a good engine, but everything surrounding it by Dodge is crap. You're much better off with what you bought. Looks nice!

[apluslawn]

Dodge is better and the tranny problems have been fixed for a while now the cummins is an excellent engine and dodge has very decent quality imo chevy just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper no bowtie for me but if you want a DIESEL get ford or dodge

[fool32696]

I test drove a 2003 Dodge quad cab diesel 4x4. It had the standard output cummins. I think the truck had between 28 and 29 thousand miles on it. Nice looking truck with leather interior. I thought I was gonna buy it. Then I drove it. Got on highway and wouldn't shift out of 2nd, pulled over and messed with the shift handle and tried again, finally I got it to shift. Getting back to dealer it wouldn't go into reverse. I was finally able to get it to back up with a little jiggling. I was just relieved that I made it back without a tow truck. Yes, I know it was still under warranty and I could have gotten it fixed, but why would I buy something to put it in the shop for a few weeks?

[topsites]

Dodge is better and the tranny problems have been fixed for a while now the cummins is an excellent engine and dodge has very decent quality imo chevy just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper no bowtie for me but if you want a DIESEL get ford or dodge

Yeah and just like Jaguar, they ALL sport low-compression engines which means you have to go REAL easy on the throttle and average is about 3 days to get from 0 to 45mph... The good news is, they get far better gas mileage than the higher compression engines.