Poor Man's Dump Trailer

[Deere Dude]

I am working on moving a berm from my property to another area to make some lowland into lawn. I have approx. a couple hundred yards to move so I modified this old steel trailer I had. I put a mobile home axle under it to raise the bed and then centered to axle so it would flip up better, and stay up. I put a tow bar hitch beneath the original hitch so I could use as a pivot for pushing and also so could take it off easily when I am done with it. I am using a pintle hook (which works super) because a ball hook will break loose when hoisting up the front of the trailer and it is much easier to hook up and disconnect that the ball. I had to reinforce the trailer hitch because the torquing started to bend the original one.

I raise the front of the trailer so the dirt rolls off the back and this make the back stay down. The I back to tractor up and lower the pivot hitch so I am pushing directly at the top of the box, and when I get the trailer up on end all the dirt comes out, almost. I let the trailer down part way and raise the hitch up as far as the bucket can go and drag the trailer back a foot or so. This gets all of the dirt out of the bed. Then I simply let it down and secure the hitch with a hook and put the tail gate back on, and off I go for another load. The turn around time is about 15 minutes I think. I can get about 5 heaping buckets from a 61" bucket in the trailer. The trailer IS 7' x 4' and the sides are 2-1/2-3', I think.

Actually it works pretty well. The worse part is getting off the tractor to latch the pintle hook and get the barrel out of the way that I use to keep the trailer level so I can hook it up again easily. But, if I had tpo carry each bucket over, I would lose a lot of dirt where I don't want it. I just thought I would share my conglomeration. :dance1:

 

[hr3]

Neet.. Do you push it or pull it???

 

[Deere Dude]

Neet.. Do you push it or pull it???

When hooked up to move I go both ways. Depends on the mood at the moment. It works well pushing because I can see where it is going and i have to end up in that direction anyway.

 

[creekbend]

Innovative. It appears to do the job that it was designed for.:thumbsup:

 

[davygp38]

Innovative. It appears to do the job that it was designed for.:thumbsup:

Works good. This set up might work for me.

 

[chad22]

That's a great idea.

Chad

 

[jenkinsph]

Nice and simple saves alot of time unloading.

 

[Oliver1655]

Word of caution to others who might want to try it, be sure you have a heavy built trailer. I know of a person who attempted to do that and had their trailer bend in the middle. Glad it is working for you!

 

[Tig]

Very clever!

 

[Deere Dude]

Word of caution to others who might want to try it, be sure you have a heavy built trailer. I know of a person who attempted to do that and had their trailer bend in the middle. Glad it is working for you!

I did have to reinforce the tongue from the box to the hitch because from all the banging around I bent it up about 6 inches. I still might bend something but I must have hauled 40 loads with it about 500 feet.