Trailer demo

[jack707]

I have a house trailer on my land that's a eye sore so I want to take it apart but don't know where to start so I need advice.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Not a fun job, but its just disassembling things. Crow bars, hammers, sawzall, etc. Buddys and beer help.

Its like the saying goes... "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"

 

[CADplans]

A 1976 Nova,,, and a ramp will help,,, if YouTube knows anything,,,,

:laughing:

 

[jack707]

Do you think it will be easer to cut the walls and then push in with the tractor? The only problem there a small room that's downstairs all cemented to the trailer.

 

[dieselcrawler]

The Nova idea would top the list as most fun... Combine with buddys and beer... 'Hey y'all watch this!'

I guess it depends on your desire to salvage material. The one we took apart, we wanted to separate aluminum siding (recycled/sold), wood/burnables, steel beams, and true trash. We also didnt have equipment avalible, all was done with hand tools and muscles.

 

[jack707]

The Nova idea would top the list as most fun... Combine with buddys and beer... 'Hey y'all watch this!'

I guess it depends on your desire to salvage material. The one we took apart, we wanted to separate aluminum siding (recycled/sold), wood/burnables, steel beams, and true trash. We also didnt have equipment avalible, all was done with hand tools and muscles.

Diesel and used motor oil would be fun but it's in the woods and the Wis.dnr would not like that. I just want the frame all wood will be burned next summer.

 

[Cord]

Drive it to the local dump and have them strip it off the frame. Put the frame on CL for $500 and you got rid of it for free.

If you want to do this your self, then just go at with a tractor. There isn't much for strength in them. If you have too small of a machine, cut a hole in one corner, feed a chain down the center and hook it on the frame. With the other end attached to the tractor (or truck), you should be able to open the wall up like a zipper.

 

[bigtiller]

Jack, to bad you and quicksandfarmer can't get together.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/371846-building-knock-down-shelter.html

 

[EverythingAttachments]

There's a Wicked Grapple for that!
Travis

 

[ovrszd]

Regardless how you do it, you are gonna have a mess. Best way to control that mess is as Greg said, by hand, piece at a time.

Attack it with a tractor and you'll be lucky to finish without a flat tire and you'll have debris everywhere.

Post pics, we like to watch destruction!!!!

 

[bcp]

You can watch how other people have done it.

mobil home demolition - Google Search

Bruce

 

[yamatitan]

Just took my bucket and started pushing. Pushed all the walls on all four sides at bottom until only the inner non load bearing walls where holding everything up. Then raised bucket and started pushing at top until whole thing fell over. This was a 16x80 mobile home that already had problems but with the flooding in august the floor completely collapsed. It had to go, after the thing was pushed over I used my titan bolt on forks and brought the bulk of it to the road where lucky for me parish paid timber companies to come in with their trucks and haul off the flood debris. Surprisingly enough the bolt on forks and bucket combo did a excellent job until I got down to the last 20 percent or so. The pile was too light and I couldnt get it to stay on the forks without falling back off. I anticipated this and had a ea wicked grapple on order 54" dual lid. Used that to clean up the final debris. Had to use two plugs in the same front tire both times was my fault driving into the debris pile trying to load it higher. All debris had to be withing 10' of the road for the timber company to pick it up. Overall not bad most companies where charging 3k-5k for trailer demo after the flood so it paid for my grapple and tire doing it myself. I had 40 hrs into it overall but was taking my time going slow. I could have probably cut that in half if I was just picking at it a little here and there. Still have the frame and some odds and ends to scrap as well not sure how much I will get out of it but a scrapper came by asking for it and told me 300ish for the frame plus another 200 for the other odds in ends I saved (wire, duct work, cast iron pipe, etc..

 

[yamatitan]

Believe it or not the last bucket full is what used to be the particle board floor thats not dirt.

 

[jack707]

Regardless how you do it, you are gonna have a mess. Best way to control that mess is as Greg said, by hand, piece at a time.

Attack it with a tractor and you'll be lucky to finish without a flat tire and you'll have debris everywhere.

Post pics, we like to watch destruction!!!!

OK I will! I

 

[jack707]

When I get back home I will ask the local fire dept. If they want to use it. If not I will move the 500 gal. Propane tank it has about 10% left there also trees in my way.

 

[prichard]

From everything I've heard fire departments won't burn them anymore due to toxicity. Not sure if that's their safety or environmental.

 

[jack707]

From everything I've heard fire departments won't burn them anymore due to toxicity. Not sure if that's their safety or environmental.

They take all the fun out of buring it down

 

[Deere Dude]

Had a neighbor with a junk 14x60 and paid someone $500 to tear it down and haul away. The man did it for the steel and fixtures and fairly decent wood. He had 2-3 helpers fairly often but it took them a long time to tear it apart, load and haul to the junk. The guy told me he really got screwed on the deal even though he got $500 because it was so labor intensive. He said he would never do it again.

If you can get someone to buy it for a hunting shack for free or a few bucks you would be much better off. There is a lot of material to be hauled away in a trailer.

 

[jack707]

My buddy know a guy who does this to trailers his price is 2k!! This is gonna take time to demo this.

 

[Dadnatron]

I was envisioning an afternoon with a dump trailer... checking out how well it works etc.

Demo... = demonstration =/= demolition in my mind. heh