Anybody use a mini truck on the farm?
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Topic: Anybody use a mini truck on the farm?
Posted By: thendrix
Subject: Anybody use a mini truck on the farm?
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 9:43am
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Been looking for a vehicle to use at the farm to keep my truck from smelling like chicken s#&t. Looked into a Kubota RTV but they're hard to come by at the moment. My father in law and my mama both have RTV's and they're very nice vehicles. Then we saw a mini truck at an auction and it got me to thinking. They seem to be more vehicle for about the same money as the RTV. The money doesn't bother me because it will be used every day and a vehicle is needed on our farm. Just wandering if any of you guys have mini trucks or have been around them? Would prefer diesel because we have a diesel tank here for tractors and loaders and it would be easier to not have to buy gas. There's a place in Texas that sells new mini trucks with several options. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
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Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 5:16pm
| They are real popular in Missouri, you see a bunch of them in southern Missouri being used in the cotton field, our local Branson dealer has one they use at the dealership & a salvage yard they have,it gets used a lot and with some fairly heavy loads |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 5:36pm
| A neighbor got one of the roxor jeeps and now he is adding a lot of accessories so they can use it in their tiling business. so far after i year he is happy with it. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 5:50pm
| Maintenance at the Power Plant had four, hard to get in or out of for us Larger Fellas but survived past ten years with only minor maintenance. Eventually they rusted up like all Japanese or Korean machines do and were dispatched to salvage. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 8:26pm
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DMiller, you're absolutely right about being cramped. The one we saw at the auction, my knees almost touched the dash and my father in law wouldn't even try it. I'm not a big guy either. 5'9" 215 is all I got. They're making an "extended cab" version now and it seems to have a lot more leg room ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 9:09pm
| Several around here and handy if any distance from farms. Yes, they are tight inside and all I have seen are right hand drive. I would go with the 4 x 4 with a dump bed and fold down sides. Have looked at them several times but stuck with the old style gator(not that its great). I just don’t want to step up higher in the bed. |
Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 9:19pm
| I looked at getting one last year then COVID hit and I put it on the back burner. There was a place south of Nashville that had a warehouse full of them. They got one out for me to test drive. Weird with right hand drive but I think I could get use to it. I was wanting the Honda but the more people I talked to the more recommended the Suzuki. I was looking at the 4wd ones. |
Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 9:24pm
  The little cars were neat, they were convertible but right hand drive too
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2021 at 10:54pm
| BIL is on his second one. Used daily. Can't recall him ever complaining about it |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 3:38am
| i found an orange one one day ona lot, but was ona Sunday and no one around. called the next morning and it had just sold. they have more room than a golf cart and you can get them with ac/heat, i also like the ones with the fold down sides and dump box. they already make them with extended cabs and 4 door cabs and equipped about any way you want. sure alot cheaper than the UTV's and side by sides and what ever else you call them. the parts places are carrying most of any parts and filters for tham now. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 3:18pm
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Yeah the more I think about it the more I'm leaning towards one. Have to be automatic. The wife is sure she'll never be able to drive a manual and she's going to be using it to ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 4:00pm
| Not to mention come deer season you have a nice toasty dry place to set. WITH a view. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 5:32pm
I already have that!!  |
TomC wrote:Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 6:50pm
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 7:28pm
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I'm afraid it's a lost cause Red Bank. She's already convinced she can't and she's never tried. Won't even try to drive the spreader truck across the driveway ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2021 at 7:30pm
| Dave?? Is that a high crop model? |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2021 at 3:32am
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2021 at 2:10pm
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Sounds like my wife 1992 I bought a Ford Ranger it was a 5 speed and she always talked about how she drove stick shift, when I got home with it first thing out of her mouth was what did you do buy a stick shift so I couldn't drive it? Never do the right thing
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2021 at 7:29pm
| Never did see the point of these Jap made things , |
Posted By: Red Bank
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2021 at 9:50pm
| I was interested in one because it’s cheaper than a side by side, and in my state can get tags for it to drive on the road and can run it down to the store for gas when I need it. I am farming some farms down the road and it’s either run down in my truck or take dads side by side and worry about the Law catching me. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2021 at 5:47am
We would use it for gathering buckets of dead chickens mostly. When they get to market age, it's not uncommon to have 4 to 6 or more 5 gallon buckets per house. With 6 houses it takes a lot of bed space that most side x sides don't have. We have an Intimidator 2500 that has a 6 ft bed that my help uses but it's open cab and pretty miserable in the winter or when it's raining. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2021 at 9:26am
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Boy bought a 2000 EXPLORER ($1000.) for use at his place.. If you need outside carry, something like an old RANGER or S10 would be an option... might be a cheaper way to go. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: matador
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2021 at 10:08am
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Check out Copart for cheap beater trucks. I bought a 1996 Dakota there with some minor front end damage for about $400 last year. Some of the cars there are total wrecks, but it doesn’t take much to total a 25 year old truck. We have one from there and the neighbor has bought a couple gems ------------- Tractors: Allis WD (x2), Allis 7040, Oliver 1800A Diesel, Case 830 Caseomatic, White 2-105, Massey 1105 | Plus a Gleaner F2, 30' A-C 1300 Cultivator, Flightline bale elevator |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2021 at 8:17pm
| We had an Electric powered one at the car dealership. Used it to ferry customer's from the office to cars/pickups they were interested in. It came with snow tires on the rear, had 4 wheels. It was pretty much useless for anything around the farm. Heater sucked the battery down very quickly, wipers wern't much good when the battery was low. We sold it to a college for groundskeeper to run around. If your really interested be sure and operate it. The one we had sure could have used a positraction rear end. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 9:34am
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This is our "mini truck" foe use around the farm. Can haul tools, gas, kids or just about anything else, just about anywhere! Real handy for fixin' fence or roundin' up cows. Has a rag top and a hard top for winter--and a good heater! Didn't pay much for it and it's licensed for the road so I can run into town too.  |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 10:33am
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That's pretty cool Phil. When I was growing up Pawpaw had a Kaiser M715. A bigger truck than that but it reminds me a lot of it. The M715 was a 1 1/4 ton truck. He got rid of it because he claimed it was getting to hard to find parts for. Man I would love to have it now. That thing would take a BEATING and never sweat a drop ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 10:03pm
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Truck is a 1972 Land Rover. It's named "Digby". I got it from the original owner just before he passed away. He bought it new and his kids named it. Grand kids all learned to drive on it and it has a front mount winch to get them out when they get themselves stuck in the mudhole down the south end of the farm. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2021 at 10:08pm
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I saw one of those 175's following me through town the other day. I knew it was some type of Jeep but wasn't sure exactly what. Neat vehicle!! I can see why you wish you still had it!! |