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.

 

[Willl]

Nice job DD, I did something similar for my late father couple years back.

He had been using just a standard ball hitch but kept forgetting to keep the angle of the dangle correct and would force the ball out of the hitch. Which of course would damage the hitch.

Guess he went through 3 hitches before I built this gismo. Wish I had some action pics.