Need advice for loading pickup on a trailer

[lutt]

Pull the trailer tires into a ditch. Chris

Beat me too it! LUTT

 

[lutt]

While that will work in theory it isn't practical with a 65' long truck and the fact I have spread axles 10' apart. It would also be hard to pull the 70k gross weight out of the ditch once loaded. Basically I just need to make the places the pickup tires contact when loading a few inches higher than the rest of the trailer.

Good reason! LUTT

 

[ch1ch2]

I lower my landing gear (jack) raising the tongue of the trailer

 

[Sprinklerman]

Back up a bit further , apply hard and direct pressure to the pedal on the right , when cleared the hurdle hit the brake . With a bit of practice with your neighbors truck you should be fine .

 

[Looking4new]

^^^ But be sure to practice with the neighbours' truck.

 

[bdog]

It wouldn't help with unloading at other locations but at home can you build up a loading dock with timbers or concrete block and fill in with soil.

This would only help if I built it as high as the deck and drove on with the ramps flipped up. When the truck high centers both the front and rear tires are on the trailer. The dove tail is 5' long and the ramps are probably 4.5'.

 

[bdog]

I lower my landing gear (jack) raising the tongue of the trailer

I have done this loading race cars on bumper pull trailers. It works great. This trailer has about 30,000lbs of stuff on it already in front of the pickup. Jacking it up would not be an easy task.

 

[bdog]

Use a set of ramps 6ft long to load the truck. It will lift the rear wheel when the fronts are on the trailer and give you the space.

Some ramps are already bent with an arch. I had to get some for my side by side for the same problem.

You only need some that handle half the weight of the truck if you only use on axle at a time.

Easy peezy!

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My drawings are crude but the lengths are to scale. Assuming a 12ft wheelbase and the 5ft dovetail and 6ft ramp.

This would work I am sure. I thought about it. Would need some decent ramps rated at 5k or more. The truck weighs just over 10k. It would mean buying them though which isn't the end of the world I guess. I was thinking of building some blocks out of stacked 2x8's to lay on either the trailer deck or the ramps/dovetail but I think they would need to be at least 3 maybe 4 thick and 8 feet long which would be rather heavy.

 

[GPintheMitten]

This would only help if I built it as high as the deck and drove on with the ramps flipped up. When the truck high centers both the front and rear tires are on the trailer. The dove tail is 5' long and the ramps are probably 4.5'.

Seems doable to me. I've built bigger retaining walls, but it won't help at remote sites, so I realize you need another solution.

 

[bcp]

Rebuild the trailer-to-dovetail transition so it is a curve.

Bruce