Hauling rock on a trailer.

countrybumpkin · Nov 23, 2018

I just did this very same thing a couple weeks ago. Hauled 2 loads first was 5 tons and the second was 6, quarry is about 6 miles away. To unload I just drive the tractor up on the trailer and get a bucket load, works great if your just doing a small project once in a while every few years.

stuckmotor · Nov 23, 2018

countrybumpkin said:
I just did this very same thing a couple weeks ago. Hauled 2 loads first was 5 tons and the second was 6, quarry is about 6 miles away. To unload I just drive the tractor up on the trailer and get a bucket load, works great if your just doing a small project once in a while every few years. View attachment 580121 View attachment 580122

I used to go to the quarry and haul gravel home in my pickup. They quit allowing pickups in the quarry after a loader backed over one.

MossRoad · Nov 23, 2018

stuckmotor said:
I used to go to the quarry and haul gravel home in my pickup. They quit allowing pickups in the quarry after a loader backed over one.

We had some poor clown get run over in his small pickup truck at our local organic recycling center. His name was Ronald McDonald. Honest. That's the guy's name. But in all seriousness, he got hurt pretty bad. Looking at the truck, you wouldn't have thought anyone could be alive in there. He managed to dive into the passenger side footwell. Smashed his shoulder horribly. Lucky to be alive.

MossRoad · Nov 23, 2018

We have an 18' car hauler with a steel deck. I have 2x12 sideboards. Works great for hauling loose material like crushed limestone, mulch, etc... My little machine is pretty handy for loading or unloading that trailer. Here's some pictures from 2003, the first time I did it. I keep a tarp and ropes in the toolbox on the front of the trailer for just such an occasion. I also haul firewood rounds and/or splits with the sideboards installed. Also works great.

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stuckmotor · Nov 24, 2018

MossRoad said:
We had some poor clown get run over in his small pickup truck at our local organic recycling center. His name was Ronald McDonald. Honest. That's the guy's name. But in all seriousness, he got hurt pretty bad. Looking at the truck, you wouldn't have thought anyone could be alive in there. He managed to dive into the passenger side footwell. Smashed his shoulder horribly. Lucky to be alive.

It took me a while to catch the double meaning of "poor clown".

oosik · Nov 24, 2018

I don't think I've ever heard of anything so ridiculous in my life. Tarp a load of gravel??? Yes - around here you must tarp a load that will blow out of the "vehicle" while in transit. Are you guys trying to tell me that a dump truck load of gravel must be tarped in your area? The ONLY dump truck I've EVER seen tarped had a load of trash going to the local dump.

Jstpssng · Nov 24, 2018

If you were on a motorcycle behind that load of gravel, you might want it to be tarped.

oosik · Nov 24, 2018

Let's talk reality - I can not remember EVER seeing a load of dirt, sand, gravel on a flatbed trailer that didn't, at least, have side boards. And - Jstpssng - if I were on my BMW M/C or any vehicle and came up behind ANYTHING carrying gravel - I would back off. It's not so much the load of gravel, either. I've had a horror scene happen right before my eyes.

Long ago and FAR away - came up behind a gravel truck loaded with gravel. All of a sudden there was this large black object coming out of the rear duals on the gravel truck - right at and thru the windshield of my Toyota Land Cruiser. A rock - size of your fist - lodged between the duals - came screaming out once the truck reached highway speed. In my Toyota it was dangerous but controllable - on a motorcycle - quite likely fatal.

nikdfish · Nov 24, 2018

oosik said:
I don't think I've ever heard of anything so ridiculous in my life. Tarp a load of gravel??? Yes - around here you must tarp a load that will blow out of the "vehicle" while in transit. Are you guys trying to tell me that a dump truck load of gravel must be tarped in your area? The ONLY dump truck I've EVER seen tarped had a load of trash going to the local dump.

Yeah, NC passed a law in 2001 that says any truck carrying sand, gravel or rock must tarp its load & secure the tailgate. We have a dump trailer & have to tarp it to be allowed into a dump even if just dumping cut wood & tree trimmings.