Size of Grain wagons 7060 can handle

Fluid and duals and front weights.

I pull 2 400 bushel wagons with brakes with my 8050. would hate to try it without brakes and lights. No duals and 2 inner weights.

PS or PD? 

Unfortunately power direct. Tractor turned up a bit.

PD

Diddo what others have shared. Be safe & plan ahead. Try checking to see if duals will clear elevator’s drive-thru pit weather enclosure door width? And also check that duals are not be too wide for scale?

If wagons have semi wheels (22.5”), your 7060 will easily pull them, versus smaller 15” or 16” floatations. Although 22.5” will not slow wagons as fast as floatations.

Two good tractor mirrors that extend enough to show around sides of wagons are equally important too. Good to check upcoming traffic AND,,, allows driver to easily check all 8 tires at any given time, versus just looking at one side 4 wheels during inside cornering!!

15mph max speed? Lot depends on routes taken. Any two lane highway &/or Township 2 lane road traffic, then wagons should have tail lights, turn signals, SMV emblem, & strobe up high for 60 mph loaded semi trucks to see from quarter mile away.

Somewhere on each wagon, mount a spare wheel. Also carry 4-5 4x6 x 10~12” long treated lumber wooden blocks, a 12 ton minimum hydraulic Jack, & breaker bar wheel lug wrench.
Use wooden blocks to assist a wheel change &/or as wheel chock during wheel change or any unhooked full wagon awaiting scale/pit dump during a ONE WAGON at a time approach at elevator. Some elevator pits are ridiculously elevated making it a challenge for tractor to traction two fully loaded wagons upward onto pit. Worse yet,,, after 1st wagon is emptied, loaded weight of 2nd wagon can easily push/damage (Jack-knife?) 1st wagon if pit exit is either a downward ramp &/or curve??

Edited by AC7060IL - 25 Sep 2023 at 9:50pm

tjwb71 wrote: Points well taken! AC. Duals will fit scale and pit. Level pit once up there , but kinda steep approach to it.. I didn't think about unhooking wagon if needed. I won't drive over 10 to 11 mph to be honest. Pretty much straight shot to elevator with a little hill to navigate. 4 to 5 miles one way.

Yes 10-11 mph will aid in many aspects. Your 7060 will do fine. Biggest challenge for 7060 will be your ability to roll~ shift PD. Most elevators offer a truck parking area(s) (for tarping) that can make excellent places to unhook & park full back wagon for a one wagon approach. One wagon is a One Focus tactic for both driver& elevator employees cause it removes stress out of concerns over scales, grain probing, pit area, & any potential damaging situations. After 1st wagon has been weighed empty, then unhook it back by the 2nd full. Switch wagons & do it again. If this parking area is level then hooking up empty is usually no problem. If 385 is bushel capacity, then math says content weighs 22-24,000 lbs, plus empty wagon weight of 3-4,000lbs. That’s a load of potential mass that can roll away, so chock wheels ~ empty or full.

I've pulled 2 350bu wagons behind a JD 4430 with no duals or fluid and it did fine. Not too many hills but I was never nervous driving it. If it's soft it doens't want to pull them in the field very well.

Will definitely use biggest hitch pin can fit. I agree, getting up on pit will have to see, its gravel. Smaller pin if have to unhook good idea.

I have 20.8 could put on inners, but dont have duals for so will stick with 18.4.

I'd put the 20.8's on and load the rears and forget the duals. You will not have an issue this way.   My first 8070 had 20.8 and 3 sets of inner weights, pulled 850 bu plus to town many times.   Bought another j&m 350 last fall so now there's a pair of them behind the other 8070 and the 525 killbros behind the 7045.

The duals I would like to do without. I guess different ways getting to same result. Pulling 850 bu, I couldn't imagine. Last year used my 7045 with no front weight and spray tires on rear with 2 wagons at 575 bu and it handled no problem.

Edited by jvin248 - 02 Oct 2023 at 9:18am

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Edited by Tbone95 - 06 Oct 2023 at 7:14am

Chevy Malibu, 350 I'm sure