1400 miles on my Cat 500i. Great load hauler, because it has a 5 spd manual transmission, and the 500 has bags of low end grunt. My farm is as rough as a cob, so the extra ground clearance comes in handy, and that IRS sure is easy on my old back.

Heaviest load I have towed is probably 700-800 pounds of wood in a trailer. Beyond that, quads just don't have the weight or the traction to control the load.

There is a big difference between getting a load moving, and controlling it. Some kid on a neighbor's farm hitched a round bale on a trailer to a Grizzly and got it moving. Started down a slight hill, and found he couldn't stop, ended up putting the quad and bale through a fence. Barbed wire fence, too...

 

I have a christmas tree farm and I use my 99 Honda 450ES for everything going.From spraying roads,to hauling tree bailers.It now has 7800 kms on it and still works perfect.

 

have a 97 foreman 400 with 9500 miles. use it for hauling everything, plowing. greta machine

 

I use an '04 450 Foreman S for just about any work on my 10 acres. Firewood, moving rocks, logs or anything I can put into a 3x5 trailer, plowing snow and just recently fashioned a driveway grader for it too. I never took it on any trails, it just serves as a utility machine. I have not yet even used 5th gear. As you would expect the miles don't accumulate quick in that kind of use.

 

I have been using a Susuki King Quad 250 for the last 10 years for farm chores. It has been great for many things including pulling gravity wagons around the farm which can wiegh as much as 12000 lbs, yea it can and did pull it around several times. Now I use the new Kubota RTV 900 to do the same chores. This machine can walk away with loaded gravity wagons like nothing. The best part is now I can load 10 -12 bales of hay around instead of trying to pile 6 on the quad.

 

I live on a large hill country farm in new zealand, almost all the hill country farmers use either suzuki or honda quad with a major preference to the manual models. At about 15,000kms they are generally had it and are replaced. It takes about one to two years to do the 15,000km. We spent alot of time each day on the bikes.

Trailer weights aren't normally more than 1000kg and with that load you won't even atempt the hills. 300-400kg is about what we normally are able to tow around on the easier tracks. On the steeper hills we tie the load to the bike because you get more places.
We have a logging arch for our 500cc suzuki which enables small logs to be towed, loads with the arch are about 500-800kg, it tows and handles very nicely round the hills or on the tracks, it is much safer than a trailer.

 

Mine has about 2,500 miles on it. No problems what so ever other than a very minor shifter adjustment when new. It gets ridden by everyone from my 12 year old daughter to my 65 year old father. My teen age nephews are pretty rough with it, and I myself have had it off the ground too many times to count.

 

My 05 Grizzly is almost a year old and has 200 miles on it and that was put on in about 5 days. My wife used it for deer hunting because hers was set up with the bucket and the sprayer. Must be nice to have 2 Grizzlies at your disposal.

 

2400 miles on dad's 450 foreman and 1700 on my 650 cat and well all are very hard miles where the atv's have been used to the fullest and dad replaced a spark plug and i replaced a belt and put in clutch springs to tighen belt up other then that not one thing has happened. the 450 foreman is a very solid machine but the cat works better when you need to go through the nasty stuff and need the brute power. and there are reasons we don't own one particular brand cause we used to have another brand and it was always working on them and they were very difficult to work on and couldn't take the pressure of working on a farm.