how to make your 5x10 trailer with max capacity of 3k pounds haul 4k pounds
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mbrule said:
Truck bed is only 6 foot. I only wanted to grab one big load and be done. But I needed another load so that's why I made another trip. The second load is still on the trailer. O won't get to it till Thursday.
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I will admit it, I've overloaded a trailer too. With no trailer brakes. Temptation gets the better of us sometimes. I had a short trip, a very heavy load of soil and a Dodge Dakota. The truck spun the tires trying to get the trailer started. Not my best moment, but I got away with it. I have also had a load of firewood push my smaller tractor right down the hill.
Darn that temptation....
Darn that temptation....
mbrule
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An overloaded trailer and light tongue, is the single most dangerous situation you can be in with a trailer.
crazyal
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I fail to see why loading the bed of the truck with less dirt in the trailer is going to change how much the trucks brakes will have to stop. If anything the trucks load needs to be towards the front or it will unload the front axle.
Last summer I used my little 1500lb trailer to move a 275 gallon tank of water a few miles from the river up to the house. It was about all the springs would take and still have some range left and it was more than the tires were rated for but I just went slow. But it's safer than filling the tank up 3/4 of the way and having it slosh around. Guess what, this summer I'll do it again.
Last summer I used my little 1500lb trailer to move a 275 gallon tank of water a few miles from the river up to the house. It was about all the springs would take and still have some range left and it was more than the tires were rated for but I just went slow. But it's safer than filling the tank up 3/4 of the way and having it slosh around. Guess what, this summer I'll do it again.
rockshaft
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Its probably OK to haul an overloaded rig with water. The evidence will wash away if you get into an accident!
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rockshaft said:
Hahahahah
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I had one of those boat-trailer-converted-to-a-flatbed trailers. It was rated for 3k lbs as well.
It was such a large trailer it was very easy to overload it. No trailer brakes, either.
One day I was at the sand and gravel yard, getting a load of garden mulch (wet, at that). There was a 1/2 yard loader sitting there, and the guy asked how much I wanted. I said "3 buckets".
So, he went and got the 1 yard bucket. Axle bent so bad the tire was rubbing on the trailer.
After removing half the material, we used the combination of a forklift to pick up the trailer, a big rock under the bent axle, and then the loader to press back down. Got the trailer back in usable shape.
Loader operator got chewed out, and no charge for the mulch that day.
I did, however, sell that trailer shortly afterwards. (And yes, I did tell the buyer that the axle was slightly bent).
It was such a large trailer it was very easy to overload it. No trailer brakes, either.
One day I was at the sand and gravel yard, getting a load of garden mulch (wet, at that). There was a 1/2 yard loader sitting there, and the guy asked how much I wanted. I said "3 buckets".
So, he went and got the 1 yard bucket. Axle bent so bad the tire was rubbing on the trailer.
After removing half the material, we used the combination of a forklift to pick up the trailer, a big rock under the bent axle, and then the loader to press back down. Got the trailer back in usable shape.
Loader operator got chewed out, and no charge for the mulch that day.
I did, however, sell that trailer shortly afterwards. (And yes, I did tell the buyer that the axle was slightly bent).
