Dump Trailer Hydraulics

[Mikemahindrah]

Over the summer I purchased a rather tired dump trailer. The hydraulic pump sits on the hitch (yoke?) and is powered off a vehicle battery. My plan is to use the hydraulics on my tractor to operate the dump hydraulic. Looking for suggestion on exactly what I have to do to modify my eMax25 to make this happen.
I'm in no rush as its my plan to rebuild the dump bed (steel) and make new pressure treated sides over the winter. I'll post some pics soon.
Thanks in advance!!
Mike

 

[ishiboo]

Over the summer I purchased a rather tired dump trailer. The hydraulic pump sits on the hitch (yoke?) and is powered off a vehicle battery. My plan is to use the hydraulics on my tractor to operate the dump hydraulic. Looking for suggestion on exactly what I have to do to modify my eMax25 to make this happen.
I'm in no rush as its my plan to rebuild the dump bed (steel) and make new pressure treated sides over the winter. I'll post some pics soon.
Thanks in advance!!
Mike

My dump trailer works fine but I've thought about adding a selector switch to allow me to run it off a remote, it'd definitely dump better/faster and not kill the battery.

All you need is one remote on the Mahindra. It's a single or two double-acting cylinders, you will simply plumb the remote where the pump was. Easy as pie!

 

[Mikemahindrah]

I like easy.... Thanks!

 

[ishiboo]

I like easy.... Thanks!

Sure. I would consider if the pump/motor/etc. still works, you might want to put in a selector valve (1/2" NPT 20 GPM PRINCE SELECTOR VALVE) so that you could switch between the tractor remote connections and the pump, to still use it for dumping.

I still use my dump trailer for non-tractor jobs on my truck all the time, so I will be going that route.

 

[Mikemahindrah]

You know, I was looking it over earlier and was thinking that exact thing!! You guys on this forum are awesome!!

 

[Xfaxman]

Is the hydraulic cylinder on the dump trailer single acting or double acting?

 

[Mikemahindrah]

I'm not sure what you mean. Sorry, dump trailer newbie.....

 

[bcp]

Is there a hose going to each end of the cylinder, or only one hose to the cylinder? Do you have power-down, or gravity-down?

Bruce

 

[Mikemahindrah]

I believe its gravity.

 

[Rustyiron]

I did the same thing this way:
Put a pair of hyd quick couplers on the elec. motor/dump cyl. hoses.
Then made up hoses to reach the tractor/cyl. hoses.
This way it was very easy to go back & forth to tractor or truck use. The longer tractor hoses would completely remove for road use.

 

[Rustyiron]

I also, with the tractor, just about bent the trailer in half (dumping) with a full load of rocks.:laughing:
Keep that in mind, the tractor has a bzillion times more balls than those whimpy battery/electric pumps do.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I use my dump trailer with my tractor A LOT and the deep cycle on the trailer lasts forever (more than 50 and maybe more than 100 loaded dumps- dual action).
Nevertheless, I had thought about plumbing to my remotes but rustyiron's comment about over driveing the hardware has me rethinking that.

 

[Xfaxman]

I believe its gravity.

Gravity would be a single acting cylinder, one hose. Your tractor manual should show how to configure the remote for single acting.

 

[Tejas]

I did the same thing this way:
Put a pair of hyd quick couplers on the elec. motor/dump cyl. hoses.
Then made up hoses to reach the tractor/cyl. hoses.
This way it was very easy to go back & forth to tractor or truck use. The longer tractor hoses would completely remove for road use.

^ This is brilliant! Going to have to copy that!...thanks for sharing!

 

[Rustyiron]

Gravity would be a single acting cylinder, one hose. Your tractor manual should show how to configure the remote for single acting.

I think that some set ups, although single acting, use the "other" side of the cyl. as additional reservoir capacity giving you 2 hoses. They still operate gravity down via a solenoid valve.

 

[Qapla]

A friend of mine has several dump trailers. He runs a heavy wire from the vehicle battery system to the rear of his trucks and uses a "fork lift" connector (very heavy plug) to connect the trailer to the truck when he dumps. This way, the trailer battery is not drained when he dumps and, with the vehicle power added, the trailer dumps quicker, stronger and safer.

You could add the same electric hookup on a tractor.

 

[Qapla]

For some reason this posted twice

 

[Mikemahindrah]

Gravity would be a single acting cylinder, one hose. Your tractor manual should show how to configure the remote for single acting.

Ok Thanks!

 

[Mikemahindrah]

A friend of mine has several dump trailers. He runs a heavy wire from the vehicle battery system to the rear of his trucks and uses a "fork lift" connector (very heavy plug) to connect the trailer to the truck when he dumps. This way, the trailer battery is not drained when he dumps and, with the vehicle power added, the trailer dumps quicker, stronger and safer.

You could add the same electric hookup on a tractor.

Sounds like a plan! Thanks!

 

[Mikemahindrah]

This is an update to my original post: The trailer I purchased is homemade. Also, the pump is leaking (well its stopped now because I think the reservoir is empty.....:laughing: Anyway, what got me thinking about all of this was do I rebuild the pump (which at some point I would have to do regardless if I keep it or sell it) or do I just hook it into the tractor making life fairly easy. Like I said I should have included that in the original post. So keep the ideas/advice flowing. Great input from you folks as always!!
Mike