A little engineering help on this on gang.

[Travelover]

Travelover- Is that a "Sketch-Up rendition? ~Scotty

Yes and not too good a one, either .

 

[Hollow]

I noticed there is nothing supporting the plate the hitch is welded to on the rear. I'd take a piece or 2" by 1/4" flat iron and weld in here to support the torque load of a trailer's tong weight. Other than that :thumbsup:

 

[mjncad]

I don't have any good ideas to add as others have already posted them; but how about starting a thread under the trucks section on that Pete 359(?), and I'm guessing an early Mack cabover?

 

[LD1]

Actually that side to side piece of angle that the receiver is mounted to is in torsion when there is a downward force on the hook insert. The way to strengthen it is to box in the angle iron so it is a closed triangle from a side view. Or add a second piece of angle to form a square tube under the receiver. Before on the left, after on the right.

This is kinda what I had in mind. And probabally what I would do if it were mine. Boxing it in with another peice of angle (to form a box tube) would be the best for torsional strength. But given the application, just the one peice to form a triangle would probabally be sufficient.

Adding a 1/4" plate on TOP like hollow suggested isnt going to do as much for torsional strength as boxing in the angle.

 

[Hollow]

Adding a 1/4" plate on TOP like hollow suggested isnt going to do as much for torsional strength as boxing in the angle.

Actually that would be stronger than the triangle method and would provide more welding surface area to the receiver tube with less welding than two pieces of angle welded together to make square tubing.

 

[LD1]

Actually that would be stronger than the triangle method and would provide more welding surface area to the receiver tube with less welding than two pieces of angle welded together to make square tubing.

Stronger vertically....probabally. Stronger torsionally, I dont think.

IE...If weight were suspended directally below the reciever, that plate on top would resist the bending better.

If he were to shove a 10' pole in that hitch and hang weight on it (trying to twist the peice the tube is welded to), boxing it in would resist that better than the plate on top.

 

[JB4310]

IMO as long as your welds are good no need for further reinforcement of the receiver tube. It is already the strongest link and would be the last part to fail in a destructive test. You could probably rip the whole loader off the machine with using the receiver as the attachment point.

Not the best place to be winching from either IMO, loader is not designed for that force geometry.

I've got receivers on everything from my buckets to my quick hitches, never seen one fail in the CUT applications.

I have a set of forks but don't see a need there for a receiver myself, but if it something you will use, then that's great.

JB

 

[JB4310]

IMO as long as your welds are good no need for further reinforcement of the receiver tube. It is already the strongest link and would be the last part to fail in a destructive test. You could probably rip the whole loader off the machine with using the receiver as the attachment point.

Not the best place to be winching from either IMO, loader is not designed for that force geometry.

I've got receivers on everything from my buckets to my quick hitches, never seen one fail in the CUT applications.

I have a set of forks but don't see a need there for a receiver myself, but if it something you will use, then that's great.

JB

Just looked closer at the pics and see that bottom member the tube is welded to is just and angle iron, I thought it was a channel.
In that case a gusset on the back might be called for if you're lifting max loads.
If it were a channel then I still don't think anything else would be needed.

JB

 

[Canada_CT230]

A 6,000 lb trailer should only have 600 lb of tongue weight. How would that lift the rear tires? A small CUT has a 1200+ lb lift capacity on the FEL. 600 lb weight of a trailer tongue is well below the max lift of the FEL.

 

[LD1]

A 6,000 lb trailer should only have 600 lb of tongue weight. How would that lift the rear tires? A small CUT has a 1200+ lb lift capacity on the FEL. 600 lb weight of a trailer tongue is well below the max lift of the FEL.

^^^ that is the key word right there.

And a 2" reciever can be used for SOOO much more than just trailers