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This evening I purchased an old one bedroom trailer house that was made in the 1950s and still in pretty good shape for a mere $40.00 My son and I had spotted it yesterday and no one was home and this eve he reminded me of it and we caught the owner at home outside. Of course we showed up in my 1980 4x4 Luv.After paying her she asks as Im walking back to my truck "when will you be coming to pick it up"? I reply with"Ill be taking it NOW if thats okay with you" She says "SURE" and the look on her face was almost comical (thought I was going to have to pick up her eyeballs off the driveway and hand them back to her) as i went around to where it was and hooked onto it.
I put my truck in 4 low and proceeded down the alley w it to make the 3 block trip back here to the homefront and it was pulling just fine but my son said it felt "kinda bumpety". Well, I hop out to survey the situation and then discover that all tires on trailer are flat (as it was in the weeds when i hooked onto it and I didnt notcie this then) Well, we made the trip w/o a problem and got it siuated in the back yard even though backing w flat tires is NOT recommended I bought this ol thing to put here and store mostly Luv parts in mostly the breakables like lights and windows in case vandals were to go out where the trucks are located. My son now calls this trailer "The Luv Shack" What can i say? hes mine so I gotta Luv him and w/o reminded me I wouldnt have that trailer. besides it will save me many trips and keep alot of parts much safer than they are now.A story w a happy ending......soon as we get the wasps nest out of it!! LOL

LilBlue, you need a website with a store, gimme a yell.

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Yes I agree. I would LUV to see that many Luvs in one place can you take a pic for all of us?

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My old but now gone Luv...

yeah, that'd be pretty cool. i'd like to see what all those trucks look like together.

Gentlemen.....I have taken pics of most of my trucks and had them put on disc, but am having probs with this pile of a computer and getting them to show in here. i thank you all for your patience in advance. You will soon see, my friends. PLEASE just bear w me till i get this thing working right.

sounds good to me , it will be cool seeing all the luvs together

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My old but now gone Luv...

Ya posts some of the pics! What else do you have there besides Luv's?

Blue, you never cease to amaze me. Keep testing those luv bounderies dude.

I've pulled some heavy stuff with mine, but never a house. I towed a full size Dodge 4x4 truck pulled through town about 4 miles with a 76 2wd LUV once. I've moved a 2 1/2 ton farm truck or two with my 77 2wd. along with a lot of farm machinery like old wisconsin 2cyl powered balers, rakes, and one time a combine all with the same 77. I have not pulled much with my 4x4 truck but it has skidded a couple of logs around the farm. Put it in 4LO and you can basically figure you might stop it from moving forwards, but the tires will still be turning. Again though, never pulled a house (even if it is a "trailer" house), that is a pretty good one. Next time snap a picture of that.

I will be moving "The Luv shack" again soon as i uhm....put on tires that hold AIR (LOL) and then i will take pics. but actually that was nothing compared to a couple months ago what i pulled: my bosswent to tow a friend w his 67 ford 1 ton wrecker, the friend hadda 98 full size Dodge ext cab and on back of it was a 26 ft flatebed trailer w 4 yes FOUR Kenworth engines The Dodge had to be lifted in front because he had broke an axle, and then my boss calls me no sooner than he got to this guy because the drive--shaft went out of the wrecker, busted in two soon as he hooked up.....
So I go down there and calmly hook a chain from my luv to the wrecker and they both said "WHAT are you doing You cant tow ALL this w that lil thing i calmly told them to get in the truck of thier choice and lets proceed. I put Luv in 4 low and I managed to about 30 mph but DID tow all that about 3 miles, dropped the dodge and trailer then towed boss and wrecker 15 miles back to the car-lot. So this trailer house i pulled.....was a breeze actually compared to all that. Although I do repeat: I DO NOT recommend attempting to back a trailer w flat tires

Wow Blue. I'm a truck driver that does oversize loads. I can't beleve you ever got it start moving. Thats impressive/crazy.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

Wow Blue. I'm a truck driver that does oversize loads. I can't beleve you ever got it to start moving. Thats impressive/crazy.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

I used to drive big trucks too,and so Ive been thru my transfer case and played with the gears a year or so ago,because its all in the gears,you got the right ones you can move anything Plus....my engine is not all stock

What's all under the hood (if u dont mind my asking)?

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Just yer basic isuzu engine that came in LUVs. this one has been recently overhauled and is NOT stock by any means.Over $3,000 in engine, was all done by a very professional machine shop here locally, VERY strong 4 cylinder, and the guy that had it done is in process of finding all the receipts for me on this and i will then post all specs on it. i do right now know that he said the head has been shaved, and has a HP cam because it lopes like a bucking bronco lol
More on this later but thanks fer the inquiry


Soryy but this is post #666 for me, had to make it decorative

I remember a TV Commercial for the LUV where they were showing it's power by towing a rail car from a dead stop. Not long after that I bought my first LUV (brand new) right off of the showroom floor for $5000. Now you know how old I am!!!

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Speakindg of rail cars...my dad usta could be a Grain Elevator Manager, once upon a time. He had a little 87 Ford Ranger, and he could hook onto a rail car put er in 4 LO, and he said if you just let the clutch out, the tires would spin and slowly but surely she would bite down and start rolling. Couldn't pull it too fast cuz they took some time to get them stopped , but you could do it. Traction was the only problem.

Sorry, but I'm not buying any of this about ANY little truck pulling a rail car. Today MY Luv met it's match(one thing in my yard it could NOT move) an 86 caddy Limo w no rear wheels in about a foot of mud. My truck said"Unt-uhh" and stalled out everytime i pulled on this POS car!

Pulling a rail car on the level is cake. You can do it with a riding lawn mower if you can hold traction. There is very little rolling resistance with steel on steel.
A rolling rail car will go 40 times the distance of a truck running the same speed.

Where your lawn mower and Truck will be in trouble is when you have to pull a hill. Then you are going to be fighting the gravity thing and the load of the car.

Where your lawn mower and Truck are going to be in REAL trouble is any kind of downhill.

hmm ....interesting.thank you for scientists point of view on this