Dump trailer

[gr8scott72]

I finally bought me a dump trailer. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but will work and beats forking out $70 a day to rent one. Found it on ebay and it was actually for sale here locally. It didn't meet his reserve and the guy called me back asking if I was still interested. (I had already talked to him) He originally wanted $4,500 on his auction and I told him it was only worth about $3,800 to me. When he called me back he said he'd sell it for $4,000. I got it for $3,900. I think I did ok.

I've already had some D-rings welded in the bed to tie down my skid and I have a set of 8' ramps on order. Right now I'm using a set of 3.5' ramps and it's a bit tricky. lol

I spent all weekend sanding/grinding/rust X/painting the bed, both inside and out. It was a little rusty on the bed but the frame looks pretty good.

It's a 6x12, 12k with a single power up, gravity down cylinder. (I wanted a scissors lift with power up AND down. It has brakes on one axle. I wanted brakes on both but it does seem to stop well.

It seems to have more hanging over the rear, past the back wheel than other dumps I've seen/rented. I just have to be sure to load the heavy stuff up front. That is why I load the skid backwards.

It had no problem with this load and dumped it just fine. Best I can figure is that is about 10,000# - 12,000# of wood.

Next on the list is to get a front wide jack and relocate the battery so I can put my toolbox from my old truck on the tongue for some storage space. I also want to get some stabilizer jacks in the rear. The dump bed tilts sky high when I unload the RC30.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Looks mighty nice. I'd sure love to have one!

 

[Oly's Stump]

Looks nice. A local guy was recently cited for not strapping down his logs on his trailer. Cost him big money!

 

[arbor pro]

It seems to have more hanging over the rear, past the back wheel than other dumps I've seen/rented. I just have to be sure to load the heavy stuff up front. That is why I load the skid backwards.

...I also want to get some stabilizer jacks in the rear. The dump bed tilts sky high when I unload the RC30.

I used to have the same problem with an older deckover dump I had. When I loaded the skidloader, the front of the trailer would shoot right up in the air. Our solution was to weld a small section of chain onto the front of the trailer frame and a hook on the trailer bed. When loading/unloading the skidloader, we would attach the chain. when unloading debris, you just have to remember to unhook the chain. The same thing could be accomplished with some type of spring latch like that on a tilt bed trailer.

 

[gr8scott72]

I used to have the same problem with an older deckover dump I had. When I loaded the skidloader, the front of the trailer would shoot right up in the air. Our solution was to weld a small section of chain onto the front of the trailer frame and a hook on the trailer bed. When loading/unloading the skidloader, we would attach the chain. when unloading debris, you just have to remember to unhook the chain. The same thing could be accomplished with some type of spring latch like that on a tilt bed trailer.

I'm looking at putting a couple of these on the rear:

http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.prodInfo&productID=9763&categoryID=195

 

[arbor pro]

I'm looking at putting a couple of these on the rear:

http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.prodInfo&productID=9763&categoryID=195

When the rear of the trailer dips down, is it puting excessive stress on the leaf springs? Is that why you're looking at the stabilizers or is it because 1) the trailer hitch is lifting up on the hitch of your truck or 2) the bed of the trailer is tilting up in the front as I was describing in my earlier post?

If the hitch is lifing up on the rear of your truck, I could see adding the stabilizers. Nice paint job on the trailer by the way. I can see that you take pride in your equipment and in the work that you do. I completely agree that, while stuff doesn't have to be new, there's no reason it can't look professional.

scott

 

[gr8scott72]

When the rear of the trailer dips down, is it puting excessive stress on the leaf springs? Is that why you're looking at the stabilizers or is it because 1) the trailer hitch is lifting up on the hitch of your truck or 2) the bed of the trailer is tilting up in the front as I was describing in my earlier post?

If the hitch is lifing up on the rear of your truck, I could see adding the stabilizers. Nice paint job on the trailer by the way. I can see that you take pride in your equipment and in the work that you do. I completely agree that, while stuff doesn't have to be new, there's no reason it can't look professional.

scott

I want the stabilizers to keep the bed from tilting so far up when loading/unloading. It's at the welder's right now so I will probably take him a chain hook and have him weld it to the tongue like you suggested. That seems easiest as I can just use the chain that I use to tie the machine down to hold the bed down while unloading. There is already a D-ring on the front top of the bed to use.

I have it at the welder so he could put 2 more D-rings on the side. Everytime I go to strap something down it seems I'm needing to strap right in the middle of the bed and there isn't anything there to attach my straps to.

I also had him relocate the battery to under the bed and bought a new front wide drop leg jack and he's putting it on a little further foward so I can mount my tool box from my old F-250 on there.

I also had 2 D-rings added to the stump grinder so I can easily chain it down in the dump trailer.


Thanks for the kind words. I try to keep my stuff looking nice even tho I can't buy new.