Country Mfg dump wagon swinging tailgate

[BobB]

Have you thought of any type of mechanism to latch and unlatch it form your seat. More seat time is always better!
Bob

 

[MadReferee]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Have you thought of any type of mechanism to latch and unlatch it form your seat. )</font>

I thought a little about it but seeing as how the front of the wagon is not within reaching distance while seated in the tractor, I rejected it as being against the KISS principle which was one of my goals.

 

[have_blue]

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Sounds like a perfect application for a garage door opener mechanism and remote. All you need is the receiver, a solenoid operated latch, and the remote control.

CHIRP! CHIRP! DUMP! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[oliver28472]

Another possibility would be to steal a design I've seen on silage trucks. Mount the hinge forward and above the hinge as shown. The gate will not open until dumped because its own weight keeps it closed.

 

[MikeIA]

Here are some pictures of the modified Country Manufacturing tandem-axle trailer we have at work. I needed a flat bed for some of the things we haul, (including grand pianos!) so I carefully cut the welds between the rear uprights and the cross-member they were attached to. Then I added some bar stock to the bottom of the uprights, and a locating pin. Here is the passenger side upright, with the added material.

 

[DMF]

Uh.. Mike? I don't see anything? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[MikeIA]

The added pieces on the uprights rest against a "u" made from more bar stock, to keep them from flaring out at the top. The "u" also acts as a guard around the taillights I added. (For a little extra safety, when we are moving things through the parking lots in the middle of the night.) Here is a picture of the "U"

 

[MikeIA]

That darn 100000 byte limit....the images are there now.

 

[MikeIA]

Here's a picture of the back end of the trailer with the upright in place....it's full of stuff right now, so I didn't get a picture of it in "flatbed" mode.
I want to get a picture of it some time with the 9' Steinway on it, to send to Country Manufacturing.