Tilt deck equipmet trailer for hay and gravel?

[moparrob]

Hello- im considering a gooseneck tilt trailer for hauling small bales and occasionally my tractor or whatever i find that wont fit in my truck. My question is, since it tilts up so the back touches the ground, will the angle be enough to dump gravel? Has anyone tried this? Also, if I hand stack the bales on the trailer when Im picking up a load, strap them together and then tilt the trailer into my hay barn, could I slide the whole stack onto the concrete floor of the barn, maybe with the stack strapped to the 6x6 posts of the barn, and pull the trailer out from under the stack?

The trailer I'm looking at has sliding axles, so that may help with getting the deck angle right.

I'm probably not hauling enough hay to buy a retriever, but I really dislike stacking, unloading and restacking by hand, and my kids are still too small to stack hay bales.

What are your thoughts?

 

[rustyshakelford]

Dump trailer might suite your needs a little better

Brett

 

[terryknight]

you can probably use it to unload hay if the stack will stay together. probably not for dumping anything. though the angle will help removing it, more than a flat trailer

 

[moparrob]

At this point, buying A trailer might be tough, let alone two. I need it to do several jobs. A dump trailer would be good, but I have future plans involving shipping containers, and I doubt a dump trailer would carry one of those.

 

[BoylermanCT]

I have a dump trailer, and gravel starts moving at about 30 degrees tilt. A tilt flat bed won't get that steep, so it won't function as a dump trailer. But it will be easier to unload with some tilt compared to no tilt at all!

For unloading hay, I would cement anchor points into the ground rather than hooking up to the building itself. Put a wall of 3/4" plywood at the far end of the hay load (closest to the truck) and hook straps to the anchor points that wrap around the plywood and hay load. This will prevent the straps from slicing in between bales and cause the hay load to come off the trailer in one piece.

 

[moparrob]

I like your cement anchor idea. Probably my luck that id break a beam or two the other way...

 

[QRTRHRS]

Hello- im considering a gooseneck tilt trailer for hauling small bales and occasionally my tractor or whatever i find that wont fit in my truck. My question is, since it tilts up so the back touches the ground, will the angle be enough to dump gravel? Has anyone tried this? Also, if I hand stack the bales on the trailer when Im picking up a load, strap them together and then tilt the trailer into my hay barn, could I slide the whole stack onto the concrete floor of the barn, maybe with the stack strapped to the 6x6 posts of the barn, and pull the trailer out from under the stack?

The trailer I'm looking at has sliding axles, so that may help with getting the deck angle right.

I'm probably not hauling enough hay to buy a retriever, but I really dislike stacking, unloading and restacking by hand, and my kids are still too small to stack hay bales.

What are your thoughts?

I am interested in hearing more about the trailer with sliding axles if you would care to share?

 

[Fallon]

I put stake sides on my old 16' gravity tilting deck. Hauled a good number of loads of aged manure with it. Unloading was me with the bucket on the tractor. My new 22' power tilting deck is MUCH steeper, but still not anywhere close to dumping much of a load of gravel without mostly loader work.

You might be able to get a load of hay off chaining the load to an anchor & driving off. Likely to be a bit messy though.