Dump Trailer

[sandman2234]

Patrick_g
And the pictures of your new dump trailer are where???
David from jax

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Nice Kodak moment, a post card picture. What is your elevation?

We are still in the 80's most days and only once in a while get below the 70's overnight. We will get winter, eventually, just not right now.

All this dump trailer talk finally whipped me up into a frenzy which NOT FINDING a good deal on a used one in the last few months didn't help so I bought a new one yesterday. It will be such a versatile tool I know I will love it and if anything goes wrong I will blame getting it on you!!!

Pat

I gladly accept full responsibility for persuasion.

Our elevation is just under 5,000 feet. I love it here, but it's not for everyone. Maybe that's why I love it here.

 

[patrick_g]

I gladly accept full responsibility for persuasion.

Our elevation is just under 5,000 feet. I love it here, but it's not for everyone. Maybe that's why I love it here.

One of the many selection criteria for choosing rural Oklahoma was that there are more people living in San Diego county California than there are in the whole state of Oklahoma. So we moved from San Diego to Oklahoma for that and many other reasons but that alone would be a strong motivator.

OK, guys, I'll go take some snaps of the trailer.

Pat

 

[patrick_g]

OK, Here are some snaps of the new dump trailer.

Hmm, That went well. No comments about the way she is holding the grapefruit or the Harley.

I'll try again, harder.

Seems to be working this time...

1. First is a side view of the trailier up at 45 degrees
2. Multiway tailgate open like barn doors, can latch open
3. 8 ft ramps stored underneath, pull out and adjust width.
4. Side view, down
5. Toolbox open showing battery, motor/pump/reservoir and remote control cable and switchbox.
6. Tongue and toolbox from side. Note the coupler is adjustable up and down over quite a range so you don't have to worry about changing the tow truck's draw bar drop dimension.
7. 2008 F-250 Super Duty Tailgate Step. Note the grab handle and step. The handle folds down and the steps fold up and retract into the tailgate. (black interior of bed is 2 day old Line-X coating)

The relief pressure of the system is 3200LBS. The pair of axles are rated for 5200 lbs each. Recommended tongue weight is 20% so absolute max safe load is 12,480 lbs. I think 10,000 is a more reasonable max load.

There are D-rings inside the bed to secure a load like a tractor and D-rings outside to secure whatever and lots of tiedowns for a tarp plus stake pockets for sideboards to carry larger volume of light stuff.

No tags required in Oklahoma if private not for hire operation.

Electric brakes on all four wheels and a break away control to apply brakes if there is a hitch failure. Built to DOT requirements with reflector tapes and all required running lights.

Had to constantly remind myself it was on behind dragging it home as it was so smooth. We'll see how it drives with a load.

Tailgate opens in middle like barn doors or will tilt out at bottom for scattering material like graveling a drive.

This will make handling logs easier. Should be able to haul logs about 18 ft long with big ends up front for better balance. Will make emptying logs easier, just raise the bed and drive forward.

I'm working on an idea for using a blower motor to "pump" granular cattle feed so I should be able to haul bulk feed in this trailer as well.

Its interior dimensions is 12' long, 6'5" wide, and 2' high without sideboards. The tires are 16 inch load range E.

Pat

 

[Defective]

Nice new truck to pull it with also...

 

[sandman2234]

Except for the color, that is exactly what was in my front yard a week or so ago, dropping off a load of topsoil. The battery on this green rental trailer wasn't able to accept a charge from the pulling truck, only by plugging it in to a wall receptacle. Might want to check the voltage on your battery with your truck off, and then again with it running to see if yours will charge from the pulling vehicle. If it won't, I suggest figuring out a way to make it happen, as the way this one was set up was a pain. Hopefully it was setup that way due to being a rental trailer.
By the way, very, very nice trailer!!! If it weren't for the amount of money you spent, I would be jealous. As it is, I will stick with my $100 trailer.
David from jax

 

[patrick_g]

Might want to check the voltage on your battery with your truck off, and then again with it running to see if yours will charge from the pulling vehicle. If it won't, I suggest figuring out a way to make it happen, as the way this one was set up was a pain. Hopefully it was setup that way due to being a rental trailer.
By the way, very, very nice trailer!!! If it weren't for the amount of money you spent, I would be jealous. As it is, I will stick with my $100 trailer.
David from jax

David & Defective, Thanks for the comments. I could have built a dump trailer (copying a successful design) but I got too good of a deal on this new one to warrant my time scurrying around gathering stuff up and actually doing it. It looks to be well built by a manufacturer who has done a lot of them over the years and has optimized the build process. It came in several hundred $ under the lowest of the other sources I found within 200 miles one way. It arrived from Texas after 4 PM, the sales staff I had talked with called me and we picked it up Saturday.

I realize when keeping the costs down things could be a tad rough around the edges but the only little things I noted were: The holes in the rear stake pockets to secure the dump adjust chains and the cutaway in the side of the tool box to let the lid close over the remote cord were cut free hand with something (torch?) and the edges of the cut are crude. I impaled my thumb on a "meathook" which I will file away and touchup. I have found no other flaws.

Defective, The white diesel F-250 4x4 is the replacement for the Dodge Dakota 4x4(in theory) and will be subjected to running around in the weeds, briars and running over small trees and brush as well as towing the dumper. The 1 ton Dodge will have reduced ranch duties and will get a chance to do more of what it was customized for in the first place, carrying a large cab over slide in camper which hasn't been on it in 3 years.

Pat

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...So we moved from San Diego to Oklahoma...

OK, guys, I'll go take some snaps of the trailer.

Pat

Around here you'd be mighty brave to admit moving in from California. There are just too many that move out to get away from the big city and then do their best to insult the locals because they're backwards and not civil like "us city folk". It's been a real turn-off to all of us.

In fact I saw an ad in the classifieds a few weeks ago for a trailer. In the ad the guy offered a special discount to anyone wanting it to move back to California.

By the way...Nice Trailer! Can't beat a professionally made product if the price is right. I assume your discount had nothing to do with your point of origin or intended destination.

 

[sandman2234]

I don't think your going to talk Patrick_g into moving back to Ca, even if you gave him the trailer, much less just a discount!!
David from jax

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I don't think your going to talk Patrick_g into moving back to Ca, even if you gave him the trailer, much less just a discount!!
David from jax

I had figured as much. There are good people here from CA. They're the kind that come here to be here rather than to escape something else.