Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[Lineman North Florida]

Lineman, I noticed in your last pick that you are using a split tilt trailer. Do you recommend it for a person with a compact tractor and brush hog?

Do you find any limitations with it?

Yes I would, I haul my small tractor with FEL and 6' bush hog on mine and can load it forwards or backwards with no issues, and while I mostly use it to haul my skidsteer with , I haven't had any issues for my uses with anything I haul, I didn't realize what a pain messing with ramps on my old equipment trailer was until I got this tilt deck, I can't ever see myself going back to an equipment trailer with ramps, now if I hauled material strictly I would for sure get a deck over, but I have a gooseneck deckover for hauling hay and my big tractor. The Kaufman tilt deck trailers are dirt cheap because you buy directly from one of their factory's and apparently they sell a lot of them.

 

[paulsharvey]

Keeping that center of gravity low is good... saw this headed up Blanding Blvd this morning

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I should upgrade my trailer. A tilt deck would be nice. Kaufman price not too bad.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Keeping that center of gravity low is good... saw this headed up Blanding Blvd this morningView attachment 1611768

In spite of everything else, they did a pretty good job of binding the machine down. Glass half full.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I should upgrade my trailer. A tilt deck would be nice. Kaufman price not too bad.

I believe you would like it, I upgraded and went with the 8k axles and 17.5 super single tires with a spare for a little over $8000.00 and they were great to do business with.

 

[EddieWalker]

A guy flew by me on I-20 yesterday with a small excavator on a trailer with just one strap holding it down. I'm not sure what it was doing, it looked like it went over the tracks, just behind the blade, and was attached to each side of the trailer. My guess is that gravity was holding it on there!!!! I was doing 80mph, and he was going a lot faster then that!!!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

A guy flew by me on I-20 yesterday with a small excavator on a trailer with just one strap holding it down. I'm not sure what it was doing, it looked like it went over the tracks, just behind the blade, and was attached to each side of the trailer. My guess is that gravity was holding it on there!!!! I was doing 80mph, and he was going a lot faster then that!!!

I bind my skidsteer down with chains and a binder at all 4 corners, only takes a few minutes.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's how I do it too. It's kind of become a thing to see how other people haul stuff, so I'm always looking when I see something on a trailer.

 

[hayden]

I bind my skidsteer down with chains and a binder at all 4 corners, only takes a few minutes. View attachment 1631822

Isn't that what DOT requires, though not everyone does it..?

 

[WM75Guy]

Isn't that what DOT requires, though not everyone does it..?

Equipment under 10,000 pounds can use the requirements for automobiles, light trucks and Vans. That only requires being restrained at the front and the rear with a minimum of 2 tiedowns. Above 10,000 pounds has to have a minimum of 4 tiedowns, plus any accessory equipment, such as an FEL or implement on the 3 pt hitch has to be secured.

I do it that way on my tractors using chains and binders at the corners, straps for the implements, even though none weigh over 10,000 pounds. Even smaller equipment such as the Mule or ZTRs gets 4 ratchet straps, 1 at each corner.

 

[4570Man]

Isn't that what DOT requires, though not everyone does it..?

I’ve started using 4 chains because it’s easier than snaking one across but it’s legal to use 2 chains on a 9999 pound or less machine.

 

[hayden]

That's for clarifying.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Isn't that what DOT requires, though not everyone does it..?

Looks like several others already answered your question but for me it's just a matter of if something was to happen while I was trailering my stuff, that I did everything I could to keep it on the trailer.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Finally made it over to my own hunting/fishing camp over on the coast and spent a couple of days sawing up trees and cleaning up the mess, I was very blessed to not have any real structural damage, many people in these little coastal towns have no home to go back to.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like a mess. Hopefully it's legal to burn there. I think it's going to take awhile to get all that cleaned up!!!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Looks like a mess. Hopefully it's legal to burn there. I think it's going to take awhile to get all that cleaned up!!!

Actually Eddie all I had to do was cut it up and get it out by the road in piles and a government contractor will come pick it up with grapple trucks with enclosed bodies, any county that was considered or designated a disaster area has this available to the residents, just up the road from my camp they have contractors with grapples on barges cleaning all the debris out of the canals and channels leading into the Gulf of Mexico, that is a mess.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's really nice! Government helping the people.

I never thought about the canals. All the pictures and video that I have seen have been on land.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I have been busy so far this past weekend and today but I got some fence built around where I built my last barn , I had built all my corners back in early September so they could set up and get tight and hopefully not give any when I pulled my barb wire. I think it turned out pretty good, but I will say the quality of barb wire isn't what it used to be, when you get it tight you better quit because this new stuff don't have no stretch .

 

[EddieWalker]

Nothing more satisfying then finishing a fence!!!!

 

[2manyrocks]

Also fun to look at these great pictures of you doing all this work from the comfort of my chair inside in the comfort of air conditioning.