Re: pumpkin transport ?
Group.
Not to tell anyone they are wrong...Cause personally I would rather
haul them to a show in a truck because of the better ride but both
fruits last year...my 615 and my 662 were hauled in a trailer to and
from Anamosa....they survived just fine....but maybe I was just
lucky!!!! It was about a 70 mile trip one way....
DAN CARLSON
TEbeachy@aol.com wrote:
> Large fruit dont survive often on trailers, if you have fruit less
than
>350, I have found that they make it short distances. We transport our
sale
>pumpkins on a trailor, and have only lost one fruit. It was 400 lbs.
I have
>never successfully transorted a fruit over 450 on a trailer for more
than 10
>miles. One big bump (like a train track) usually splits it. Hope
this info
>helps.
>Tom Beachy
>Fort Wayne, Indiana
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