Small dump trailer, bad descion or good?

[hutchman]

Here's my $5K 16ft dump trailer I just got

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... It's convertable too!

 

[Sysop]

I have a SureTrac 5x10 dump with dual axles (7k total) and love it. I had to install a brake controller on my little truck to use it, but it pulls like a dream and I'm yet to have overloaded it in weight even piling it full of clay beyond the volume of the box. I didn't go with the smallest, but I went with the largest my truck could move.

So far it has moved an estimated 200 tons and is like the day I bought it.

 

[Budweiser John]

I have a SureTrac 5x10 dump with dual axles (7k total) and love it. I had to install a brake controller on my little truck to use it, but it pulls like a dream and I'm yet to have overloaded it in weight even piling it full of clay beyond the volume of the box. I didn't go with the smallest, but I went with the largest my truck could move.

So far it has moved an estimated 200 tons and is like the day I bought it.

I purchased a 8'x14' 14K dump trailer in 2001. In the last 14 years it has hauled about everything imaginable and has proven to be one of the best return on investment of ony pice of equipment in my arsenal.

As been stated, beware of wimpy hydrolacs. My trailer was built with a Rugby siser lift under carrage and has been bullet proof. Trailers using a single hydrolac cylinder being dumped on a less than level site could bend the cylinr shaft.

 

[Sysop]

My advise would be don't buy the biggest box available for a given set of hydraulics (wide boxes would be worse at any twisting on a single cylinder). As a for instance, the trailer I chose had the same sized hydraulics as many 6x10 and 6x12 models. A little research goes a long way.