Unloading heavy, unpowered equipment from trailer.

[Redlands Okie]

Fallon and Roadhunter ideas are in my same train of thought . Back it up to a hill. Into a ditch. Or simply use your existing tractor to make a pile of dirt all from one direction, back the Trailor into the low spot you made and drive off on to the hill you made. Combat the pile of dirt with your tractor a bit. Be sure to allow for more distance than you think you need to get it off the Trailor. Way safer than any lifting etc ideas. One person job this way also.

 

[Dadnatron]

Turns out, I purchased both a 6yd scraper and a 12ft drag blade (He called it a Killinger blade or something) but it is a single cylinder drag blade with sides. I put them on a 28ft deckover, with the blade long ways on the front and the scraper on the back.

Using my FEL, I chained to the tongue of the scraper, lifting the front up but leaving the wheels on the deck. I dropped the beaver tail and put on the ramps and just rolled it off the back with the FEL. It actually worked really well... almost like I knew what I was doing. My wife was watching and I had told her the plan... She actually stood up and applauded. (I felt like Babe Ruth)

Chained to the blade and just horsed it straight off without issue. It is pretty big though, and with only a 3pt hitch blade on the back, I was not certain I wouldn't be doing a headstand. But... everything went exactly as planned. Which in and of itself makes me worried. I used up way too much karma with that unloading.

 

[Haoleguy]

Good looking units Dadnatron. Congrats !

 

[Redlands Okie]

Turns out, I purchased both a 6yd scraper and a 12ft drag blade (He called it a Killinger blade or something) but it is a single cylinder drag blade with sides. I put them on a 28ft deckover, with the blade long ways on the front and the scraper on the back.

Using my FEL, I chained to the tongue of the scraper, lifting the front up but leaving the wheels on the deck. I dropped the beaver tail and put on the ramps and just rolled it off the back with the FEL. It actually worked really well... almost like I knew what I was doing. My wife was watching and I had told her the plan... She actually stood up and applauded. (I felt like Babe Ruth)

Chained to the blade and just horsed it straight off without issue. It is pretty big though, and with only a 3pt hitch blade on the back, I was not certain I wouldn't be doing a headstand. But... everything went exactly as planned. Which in and of itself makes me worried. I used up way too much karma with that unloading.

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Nice looking set up, but there is one problem. WAY to much yellow paint on that unit. Best get busy and start scraping

 

[Dadnatron]

Okie,

its a refurbished and altered 1980 Eversman 6.5yd scraper. Someone along the line pulled off the front wheels and welded on a tongue with a regular hitch. Although its nice and shiny now (thanks to the rebuild by RS Bass of Beebe, AR) I'm sure its pulled a bit of dirt around the world.

I am looking forward to getting to use it. I used the drag blade for about 2 days before I had to return to work, and had a great time. I'm looking forward to really causing havoc with the scraper!

I really do have to come up with a solution to returning to a consistent depth however. I hooked onto the scraper to move it out of the pasture and couldn't help myself but to try a little scrape. Well... I shut down my tractor by digging so deep so quickly because I couldn't feather the hydraulics quick enough. Live and learn. 100hp won't chuck out a 12" bite all at once... heh.

 

[aczlan]

I really do have to come up with a solution to returning to a consistent depth however. I hooked onto the scraper to move it out of the pasture and couldn't help myself but to try a little scrape. Well... I shut down my tractor by digging so deep so quickly because I couldn't feather the hydraulics quick enough. Live and learn. 100hp won't chuck out a 12" bite all at once... heh.

If compressing/retracting the lift cylinder lowers it, they make stroke control stops that go on the rod to make it so you can only retract it so far. That let's you stop at a repeatable depth.
A restrictor fitting or a flow control valve will also let you slow down how fast it raises/lowers.

Aaron Z

 

[Dadnatron]

I think this will work well on the scraper, because I have a 'hard depth' that I don't want to go beyond. I just can't pull that thing with the blade digging 8-10". Needs to be 'scraping' off the top 6" consistently. I think I will invest in some and see how it goes.

My problem really comes from my drag blade. 'Most' of the time, I want it just skimming the surface, taking off high spots and filling low. But, at times, I want to actually 'drop the blade and dig', and the hard stops would keep me from being able to dig further. I did get better at feathering the blade, but it probably added 20-30% to my time. It seems like I could just stop and drop it to the ground, however, every place is a little different and what seemed like 'ground level' at this point might be too high when I begin moving or might actually immediately dig in.

I'd say it is a small problem, and I certainly worked around it. But it is a frustrating problem, because it is unnecessary. I understand it but don't accept that it must be so. There is a way... perhaps not invented yet... but there is a way, and it will be relatively simple.

 

[zing]

Turns out, I purchased both a 6yd scraper and a 12ft drag blade (He called it a Killinger blade or something) but it is a single cylinder drag blade with sides. I put them on a 28ft deckover, with the blade long ways on the front and the scraper on the back.

Using my FEL, I chained to the tongue of the scraper, lifting the front up but leaving the wheels on the deck. I dropped the beaver tail and put on the ramps and just rolled it off the back with the FEL. It actually worked really well... almost like I knew what I was doing. My wife was watching and I had told her the plan... She actually stood up and applauded. (I felt like Babe Ruth)

Chained to the blade and just horsed it straight off without issue. It is pretty big though, and with only a 3pt hitch blade on the back, I was not certain I wouldn't be doing a headstand. But... everything went exactly as planned. Which in and of itself makes me worried. I used up way too much karma with that unloading.

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The tongue is pointing toward the front of the trailer. How did you attach the FEL to it and drive it off? I am picturing the tractor and FEL approaching the trailer from the side to hook up to the scraper tongue. How did you then, drive it off? I must be picturing it wrong, or did you spin it around on the trailer with the FEL first?

 

[Dadnatron]

Trailer wasn't moved from this spot. Tractor was on the opposite side with wheels close and hard turn to the right. I hooked up to the tongue with a chain with about 2ft slack.

When I raised the tongue, it put the pressure on the tires. When only the tires were touching, I continued to raise it until the angle caused the scraper to want to roll backwards slightly. I then carefully reversed and raised the FEL at the same time so as not to increase the FEL arc which would have pushed the tongue to the opposite side. This kept the tongue straight and caused the scraper to 'back up' onto the beaver tail. I continued to raise the FEL and slowly reverse until the FEL was pulling the tongue back to me. Then I began lowering the FEL as I continued to reverse. Towards the very end, I had to go forward about a foot. But all in all, it rolled off almost exactly straight.

 

[zing]

Trailer wasn't moved from this spot. Tractor was on the opposite side with wheels close and hard turn to the right. I hooked up to the tongue with a chain with about 2ft slack.

When I raised the tongue, it put the pressure on the tires. When only the tires were touching, I continued to raise it until the angle caused the scraper to want to roll backwards slightly. I then carefully reversed and raised the FEL at the same time so as not to increase the FEL arc which would have pushed the tongue to the opposite side. This kept the tongue straight and caused the scraper to 'back up' onto the beaver tail. I continued to raise the FEL and slowly reverse until the FEL was pulling the tongue back to me. Then I began lowering the FEL as I continued to reverse. Towards the very end, I had to go forward about a foot. But all in all, it rolled off almost exactly straight.

No wonder your wife stood up and applauded. :thumbsup: