Tractor-Towable LARGE Dump Trailer

[JJT]

10 miles with a load is going to be a 3+ hour round trip. Have a 10 wheeler drop off what you need and use the tractor to move the material around the property.

What's the max trailer load for a B2910? I doubt it's much more than 3000 - 4000 #'s - less than a yard of material/load discounting the trailer weight.

I regularly move 5000 - 8000 # hay wagons with my L3710, but travel no more than a half mile.

 

[RoyJackson]

What's the max trailer load for a B2910? I doubt it's much more than 3000 - 4000 #'s - less than a yard of material/load discounting the trailer weight.

I regularly move 5000 - 8000 # hay wagons with my L3710, but travel no more than a half mile.

Yeah, I've seen those hay wagons getting hauled. Sometimes a truck will be pulling 2 or 3. Most I've ever seen a tractor (big tractor 52xx series Deeres and such) pull was two at one time.
When they get to "tail waggin' the dog", it can be right scary to watch...I'm sure you've been up close and personal on that now n' then.

Now, Gordon mentioned Tongue weight as a factor. Of course, hay wagons have the wheels at each corner. This reduces the tongue weight concerns. The Pronovost trailers are standard tandem trailers with both axles at the half way or two thirds of the trailer length back.

Glenmac...guess we're back to getting the material brought to your property rather then you going to get it.
And, of course, the "ragged out" pickup with all the previously listed accessories.

 

[jrlichina]

Check out http://www.ezdumper.com or http://www.maxidump.com

 

[bgott]

Get an old pickup bed trailer. When you need to dump it, unhook it and chain the loader to the tongue and dump it. The three point hitch makes it easy to hook and un- hook it. It's not a very polished solution, I admit, but you can find those old home built trailers for one or two hundred dollars. Have the dirt or gravel delivered, I doubt you're insured for hauling stuff down the road behind your tractor.

 

[glennmac]

Ahh, you guys have no sense of adventure. Minor technical details did not stop Captain Bligh, Cook or Kirk.

Actually, I wasn't thinking of towing with my 2910, but with my hypothetical larger tractor. And speed of delivery is irrelevant. I like driving slow roads with my tractor. I had 12 tons of gravel delivered once for my absurd culvert bridge project and the truck destroyed my lawn even getting the pile to a inconvenient place. Towing one ton at a time would be ok.

I haven't had time to check all the websites, but I will, and thanks.

Tongue weight. I will overcome that with two axles and four wheels, it seems to me. Load weight. That doesn't matter once you get going. Brakes. That's a real issue. Lot's of hills between here and there. Gotta think hard about that one.

Pickup's can't dump. Plus, I'm not qualified to own one. Had my last Bud on May 12, 1989, and have never touched a gun and never will. (Gun's should only be for city folk; country dwellers don't need them.) Actually I'd like a partial truck--the Ford Sport Trac--but everyone in my family forbids me to even think about trucks. No one on either side of my family has ever owned a truck, and to even talk about getting one is like suggesting buying a space capsule. There are more folks with different strokes than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.

Actually, I'd like a space capsule. And I appreciate the thoughts about the cheap alternatives. That sounds promising.

 

[HalseyGreen]

Adding an electric brake controller to a tractor shouldn't be hard, you would need to rig a bracket to attach a brake light switch from a car or truck to operate off your tractor brake petals, then run a few wires, for power and ground to a trailer connector on the tractor. I'm planning to do it to my JD 790 when I convert the EZ-Dumper pickup insert I got to a trailer model. Going to use dual axles so the tongue weight can be controlled. I beleive the advice that everyone else is giving that you wouldn't want to tow a trailer with brakes and I not sure that surge brakes would react enough with a small tractor. The trailer made from a pickup body isn't bad, and you could add a scissor lift or other hydraulics to make it dump.

 

[RoyJackson]

Gun's should only be for city folk; country dwellers don't need them...

That's a Bill or Rights, not Needs, friend

 

[Mark_in_NH]

glenn,
The brakes will only be an issue if you need to stop !! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I remember one of my dads first travel trailers, he had a little black box that mounted under the dash of his truck, with a small spring loaded lever that you would slide to one side to apply the trailer brakes whilest stepping on the trucks brake peddle.

 

[RoyJackson]

he had a little black box that mounted under the dash of his truck, with a small spring loaded lever that you would slide to one side to apply the trailer brakes whilest stepping on the trucks brake peddle

That's the electric brake controller we were discussing earlier

 

[Mark_in_NH]

Gosh, If the Country Dwellers had never owned firearms, there never would have been the All Important Militia's of our history. Then where would we be today ????? Or would we even be at all ?????