trailers again...

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> "How about a trailer that neither tilts or uses ramps?
Instead the bed lowers clear down flat with the ground"</font>

Well, that would have to be a trailer without a full axle for the entire bed to drop like that. It would also have to have some accommodation at the tongue so there would be at least three points which would raise and lower.

It sounds like a lot of engineering for no particular gain to transport a tractor. I share your aversion to ramps. Do you have some particular aversion to a tilt bed?

 

[2nstonge]

GES,

Did you look at a dump trailer big enough to haul your tractor? If you decided not to do that, could you share why? I'm thinking of going with a large dump trailer primarily because it would eliminate having to register and maintain 2 trailers. Also, if I'm going to be on a job a few miles from home I wouldn't have to make multiple trips for the equipment. Just curious about your thoughts & experience.

I have a smallish tilt trailer now, while it's just "ok" for hauling the tractor it's terrible (in my opinion) for dumping any sizable quantity of material. The stuff doesn't slide out - not enough tilt angle - and my loader can't reach in far enough to scrape it out. I end up moving alot of stuff by hand - not fun while the tractor is sitting there snickering at me.

There's a Pace American dealer near my home, their dumper looks like a solid unit. I'm still in the research mode.

Thanks much, -Norm

 

[Syncro]

<font color="blue">"How about a trailer that neither tilts or uses ramps?
Instead the bed lowers clear down flat with the ground"
</font>
<font color="black"> </font> I have something very close, its an old U-Haul auto carrier that I completely rebuilt. It has a front jack which lets the bed articulate to lower the rear to the ground, and then a large tailgate that lowers like a ramp. The end result is a trailer bed thats almost flat with just a slight incline. It works VERY well and the rig has an extermely low center of gravity and a long tongue so it pulls like a dream. GVW is about 7000#, not made for a really big tractor, but plenty for a typical small CUT. It also allows a 90 deg hookup. pics to follow

BTW, U-Haul currently does NOT sell trailers, if you find an older unit be absolutely sure its not stolen. I called the U-Haul corporate headquarters and ran the VIN before I bought it to be 100% sure it indeed was legal.

 

[Syncro]

pic 2- The actual bed with everything folded up is 12', however the front panel folds down as well as the tail gate to extend the bed to 16' plus another 3 feet over the tongue. Kinda handy arrangement.

 

[Syncro]

pic 3 The fold down tailgate that either acts as a bed extension or a drive up ramp

 

[Syncro]

pic 4 Shows the ability to hitch her up at 90 degrees. The rig has 4 wheel hydrolic surge brakes which are darn handy for the smaller loads this rig is meant to handle.

 

[Syncro]

pic 5 typical load

 

[Golfgar4]

Here's the link to PaceAmerican . /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ScottAR]

I've seen the kind of trailer described. The one I saw was used to haul small electric scissor man lifts. The whole bed lowered flat to the ground so the little electric lifts could drive on. Ran about $7k new.

That $7k probably is why the rental place we use at work has a tilt bed and we push the manlifts on with a forklift. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[ges]

Hi Norm.......
Well let's see if I can answer these questions while not "slamming" anyone's equipment or ideas. As I stated before, this is what worked for me.
I owned the car hauler (18') long before I bought the dumper. In fact that's how the dumper came about. I had put a "blue tarp" down on the car hauler and loaded yard trash, leaves, tree limbs, old composte, ect. and the wife and I headed for the local composte site. The idea was to pull the tarp with ropes tied at the corners to empty it. Wrong, could not move it. Another Bud was also there so we tied the ropes to his truck hitch and the wife pulled at the sametime with my truck and trailer in the other direction. Wrong, all tires spun. So the composte site guy happened to be there and he came over with the front end loader and dragged it off, tarp and all.
Anyway, wife says...."there is no way that she is gonna go to the composte site by herself and do that, we need a dump trailer".......got my vote and dump trailer.
1. yes they make a dump trailer big enough to haul a tractor, well compact tractor.
2. I like and don't want to give-up my car hauler, it's just too handy for me.
3. My dump trailer is small enough that I pull it around the yard with the BX22 till loaded.
4. My truck is a Hv. 1/2 ton with small v8 and I know if I had a bigger dump trailer I would overload it. (the truck)
So..yes I thought about it, but for me, this worked better. In fact I need to buy and haul 3 29.5 ft steel beams and neither trailer will work. Oh well.
Hope that answered your question? George