rEdNeCk dUMp tRuCK!

[xlr82v2]

Here's another one of the many uses for your FEL that you think of when you don't have one...

Nows, I DON'T reckummends that yous try this at home... bekuzz I'm a perfeshunul.



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I've gotta say, it works pretty good, but remember to remove the tailgate first Just be careful. I got these 2 tons of rock off of this trailer by myself in about 4 minutes.

 

[john_bud]

I've did that meselfs too. Werks reel good'n!

Then again, most red necks aspire to be like me...

jb

 

[Renze]

Cornering fast with downfolded side boards works even better, cuz' you dont even have to disconnect the trailer, and it doesnt require additional manual labor to spread the gravel !!!

 

[jsborn]

The only problem I see is the ROPS is folded down and you know that is not a safe way to operate. But then again you probably just lowered it to make the picture clearer.

Good Job.

 

[schmism]

ive done the same iwth my 5x10....

 

[GT2]

Hey cuz... ifin yous chained er up yous cuda spread it too!

 

[Kernopelli]

xlr82v2, that's some straight up backwoods ingenuity! Where you at in Randolph Co.... Chester? Don't happen to work for IDOC do ya? I work at Vienna CC.

 

[dfkrug]

XLR82V2:

Nothing wrong with your idea. I do it will my dual-axle trailer, loaded
with gravel, but I sure can not lift it off its back wheels!

I also had my trailer deck made with sheet steel (10 guage) for
a smooth surface. Gravel or dirt slides out better than a wood deck.

 

[KennethBrown]

I just did that Friday evening with a 16 footer loaded to the gills with sand. I stood that thing up about 60 degrees before the sand would slide off.

 

[xlr82v2]

xlr82v2, that's some straight up backwoods ingenuity! Where you at in Randolph Co.... Chester? Don't happen to work for IDOC do ya? I work at Vienna CC.

Nope, just north of Chester, Ellis Grove... Don't blink, you'll miss it. Actually I live out in the country a couple of miles south of EG.

Nope, no IDOC for me, but I've got a couple of Bro's in Law and quite a few friends that do (or used to, I should say... a few of them took the early out)...

Hey cuz... ifin yous chained er up yous cuda spread it too!

Welp cuzz, I jus don't no bout that. Mite be a little hard to spred them rocks out like them big dumpers do withouts one 'a dem tailgate things tatched back ther on tha back like a big truk. Cuz wen it comes, it all comes at one time in a big heap like the ol' bull out back. I thawt it wuz eazey nuff justa spred it out with that buckit hooked on the fronts a the trakter any ways.



I've gotta quit typing like that, or I won't be able to stop

I hauled 2 more loads of rock today after I took those pics... removing the tailgate makes a HUGE difference... I just got too excited to try it on the first load and forgot all about the tailgate being on there still. I can unhook from the pickup, dump the trailer, clean off the remaining 3 or 4 shovels full of rock from the back of the bed/bumper, and have the trailer hooked back up again to the pickup, all within about 5 minutes... I had the gal at the scale at the quarry scratching her head as to how I got back there for another load so quickly... I told her I've got a BIG shovel

 

['Bota Fan]

I hauled 2 more loads of rock today after I took those pics... removing the tailgate makes a HUGE difference... I just got too excited to try it on the first load and forgot all about the tailgate being on there still. I can unhook from the pickup, dump the trailer, clean off the remaining 3 or 4 shovels full of rock from the back of the bed/bumper, and have the trailer hooked back up again to the pickup, all within about 5 minutes... I had the gal at the scale at the quarry scratching her head as to how I got back there for another load so quickly... I told her I've got a BIG shovel

Looks like as much fun as a barrel of monkeys, and I'm always in favor of getting something done faster. Law-dee, they's plenty o' werk to be done heah.

But serious and for sure, does your little method not put too much strain on the tongue (the trailer's, not yours)? I never professed to be an engineer. I suppose if you can tow it behind a vehicle and the load is pushing down, is it the same stress raising it up?

 

[xlr82v2]

Yep, the direction of the force is the same.

I'm sure that the stress does increase when the bumper of the trailer contacts the ground and then the entire "system" starts to pivot at the bumper because it is starting to lift the entire trailer plus whatever load (payload) remains in it at that point in an upward direction...but also, the force required is probably near the maximum at point, and diminishing rapidly as you go higher, because the payload is coming off the trailer, and, as you move toward the vertical, weight of the entire system is transferring from the tongue+bumper, to bumper only. It's just a variation on the old lever/fulcrum thing... with the bumper being the fulcrum, the entire trailer is the lever.

The first time I did it, I was much more concerned about rolling the bumper up than damaging the tongue... I put the edge of the bucket under the frame rails where they meet, and not the actual "tongue". As I lifted it up, I didn't keep speed with the tractor, and it slipped from the frame rails to the tongue itself, but it was fairly high at that point, and the loads on the tongue would have been fairly low.