Dump Trailer

[Anonymous Poster]

Have you ever priced a stand-alone hyd system????? Spendy stuff. You are getting good advise - 2 frames, beefier for no twisting, & hydralics - seems like a normal price increase to me.

Surprised it's not a bit more, really. When I first read this thread, I was thinking just a hyd cylinder & quick-tach hose for the tractor, but if you folks are getting a whole battery hyd system with the pump, you're getting good buys for $3600-5500 for the whole trailer/ system!

--->Paul

 

[CTyler]

Yes stand alone sytem is about $500.

 

[CTyler]

I saw, what I thought, was a really nice trailer. The trailer was 19'. The dump bed was 13' and the front part had a wood deck. So you could this trailer as a car/equip/dump trailer.
Then I saw the price...cough.... about 5 times the price of a car trailer.

My thought on dump trailers is this. The people buying dump trailers are business' for the most part. If your in business and you "need" something you get it. You'll pay the price because there is a return. As such they will command a higher price. So for a user like me its "Tuff Nuts", put up or shut up.

With the price of used dump trailers being selling for new prices, again nuts. Maybe I should just shut up, buy one, use it for a year and sell it.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

<font color="blue">This is what gets me on a dump trailer. You can buy a 20' tandem axle 7000# car trailer for about $1600 or a 18' 12000# tandem axle equipment trailer for $3000. But a even a 10' 7000# tandem axle dump trailer is $3600. Whats up with that?</font>

Even a light duty dump trailer will have fifty two hundred pound axles. The dump mechanism will run from just under a grand to fifteen hundred dollars.

Five hundred dollars for two seven thousand pound tork flex axles with brakes. Another five hundred for four take off sixteen inch eight lug wheels with ten ply tires. Then add fifteen hundred for a dump unit from Harsh, nice scissor type with good componets. Now add your steel box, frame, coupler, wiring, lights, break away set up etc, I wouldn't make one to sell for thirty six hundred dollars.

They're not cheap for a reason.

But if you want to spend a lot of money for something that will break your heart, go cheap on a dump trailer.

 

[rancar]

<font color="blue"> Maybe I should just shut up, buy one, use it for a year and sell it. </font>

There you go. With used trailers selling for the same price as new you could use it more or less cost free for a year, then sell it hopefully for what you paid for it, and get a year's worth of this piece of equipment for free. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

...Bob

 

[rancar]

Here's another link I just came across to show some examples, specs, and prices on various types of dump trailers. Bottom line: THEY ARE NOT CHEAP!!!!

Dump Trailer Specs

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I guess I'm in the same boat as the orginal writer on this thread. I don't need a dump trailer that can safely travel down the road. I don't give a hoot what it looks like. I really don't care how it works. All I want is something that is almost as easy to unload as it is to load. Anything that could carry more than one bucket-full of dirt or one rake-full of brush would increase my speed of moving things on my property by an order of magnitude, if it didn't take so long to unload it at the other end. I can build it myself if anyone has a clever ideas...

 

[MadReferee]

I too have been looking for an inexpensive (the operative word) dump trailer. The best bang for the buck for a light duty unit appears to be the one from Country Manufacturing. However I have not had the opportunity to see one up close to check out the quality. Maybe someone on TBN has one and could comment.

www.countrymfg.com

 

[Anonymous Poster]

What about a self-dumping hopper trailer? Surely something like this would not be all that difficult to build as long as you're going to be using it on your own property and not too worried about OSHA /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

This might be my answer. I'll have to think about the locking mechanism and look around the junk pile. I have an VW Rabbit rear axle assembly that might work...hmmm.

 

[JATO_RaT]

I saw a junker on eBay under "dump trailer" I believe it was. That was the 2nd time I was there and was suprised how many trialers there where.