Trailer loading ??

[DDT]

If it helps weigh your truck and trailer in that order, not both at once. load trailer weigh again, move tractor and equipment to get the right bumber weight. do it once and you will be very close every time. now if you load and unload in the same place (flat ground) measure your bumber to the ground empty and again loaded. the more weight on the hitch the lower the bumber will be. that is how I do mine, I do it so much I can get very close by standing next to it and useing my knee as a reference point. to each his own method.

 

[thcri]

And when you find the right place, take a can of paint or some type of marker and mark it. Then you always know the right place and if someone else loads it for you he knows where to put it.

Murph

 

[MossRoad]

How do you get the paint off your knee?

Just kidding. That sounds like a great idea.

 

[thcri]

Moss,

I have a Bobcat Track hoe and if you don't put that thing on the trailer just right, you are all over the place. And with 25 people using it and loading it, it was just a good idea.

Murph

 

[smilingreen]

I have a Dodge 3500 flatbed. I doesn't seems to make any difference where I put my tractor on my 18' tandem axle trailer. Actually, in the winter time for commercial snow removal, The truck goes through the smow better when I have a lot of tounge weight. Whats you guys thoughts on this?

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

You might want to consider putting some stop blocks on your trailer bed instead of just paint, especially if that's the only thing you load on your trailer. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MossRoad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( with 25 people using it and loading it, it was just a good idea. )</font>

I can imagine that 25 opinions on where the thing should be on the trailer could cause problems.

 

[MDNick]

My only concern with marking the spot that you stop at every time is when the load is different. Get people accustomed to stopping here everytime and you'll be fine, if you always haul the exact same setup each time. Change out the scraper blade for a bushhog (or that 3,000 lb chipper mentioned above) and the rules change. Some people won't grasp the concept that the paint won't apply if you have changed the 3ph load by several hundred pounds (or thousand with that chipper).

For most of us the paint will work fine. We are the only ones loading it, and know what config the paint applies to.

My $.02 for looking out for human nature.

 

[BWS]

i borrowed a 16' flatbed[tandem car trailer] to move my kubotal3830 and ended up bending the trailer frame about 5" down.i have to pick it up today and figure out how to straighten it.it was rated for 6000lbs,might have to take to a frame shop??dont know what happend??bws

 

[MDNick]

BWS,

I also borrowed a 16' tandem car hauler for my L3010. It handled the tractor fine, except for the ramps. They were woefully inadequate. Just bent diamond plate to form a channel. The wheel base of my tractor was such that the tires just road on the edge of the ramps. The ramps were not adjustable, they tuck away under the trailer. It is not a fully decked trailer, just the wheel paths are diamond plate. I bent the ramps. Had to beat the crap out of them so they would tuck back away. I may wind up buying the trailer, and if so will be welding in some angle iron as reinforcements.

Someone else posted on TBN awhile ago about the problem of borrowing. If you smash it, you buy it, and you still don't have it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Nick