Dump Trailer Job - Life is Easier

[Gordon Gould]

I used to do this kind of job by the bucket full. It would take 8 to 10 round trips. Each trip the bad spot would get soupier. Now it takes 2 trips and there is no shoveling involved.

I got 3.03 ton (6060 lb or 2.25 yd +/-) of 3 1/2" crushed road base.



First load. Well over 3000 lb.





Second load.



When you put it in a hole rather than spread it out it doesn't look like 2.25 yds.



I told my wife that I am enjoying my second childhood. She looked at me funny and said, "It is at least your forth."

gg

 

[Industrial Toys]

Isn't the stone just going to disappear into the muck?

 

[Gordon Gould]

It actually stays pretty good. I know the right way is to dig all the organic material out and then lay in road base over some fabric but these are just tractor roads in the woods for my own use. My tractor tire spread centers pretty well on the track spread of my dozer which has 15" pads. I go thru with both several times which squeezes the gook off to the sides and middle and the ruts go down to the bottom if there is one. Then I fill the ruts with rock/gravel so I end up with two solid strips. The trails are narrow and as long as I keep my tractor centered pretty much I have solid going.

EDIT: The road base holds together really well after it gets packed by a few rains.


gg

 

[Industrial Toys]

Large gravel would be kind of expensive to use that for around here. The pioneers used to lay Cedars side by side going through swamp to make road base.

 

[ovrszd]

Large gravel would be kind of expensive to use that for around here. The pioneers used to lay Cedars side by side going through swamp to make road base.

Depends on how much per hour you charge for your labor cutting and laying logs?? Rock might be cheap.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I thought of that. I have lots of standing dead cedar that should be cut down anyway, so such a project could kill two birds, so to speak.

Curious if the small dump truck belongs to the OP. I always thought of having a dump truck or dump trailer, but not both. I ended up with a bigazz trailer.

Pics of the Dresser would be nice.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Yes the truck is mine. It is my baby. A 2001 Ram 3500 with 360 (5.9L) gas motor.

I have tried all kinds of things. Road base works best because it packs together and acts like a solid piece if you don't use the road when it is real wet like spring mud season. Straight rock lasts for a while but slowly migrates into the mud and disappears. In my mind a $25 load of road base makes more sense for fixing a single mud hole like that than making a corduroy road. They are a ton of work. Maybe I am just lazy. I have done it both ways and like gravel. The easiest way for corduroy was to go to the saw mill and get some edge slabs but they chip everything now and slabs aren't available. I put this one in about 10 years ago with old RR ties that were free. It has lasted very well.

This was when it was dry



When I finished



I have some swamp roads that I can only use in winter when and if they freeze.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

Pics of the Dresser would be nice.

I could probably find some more if you like

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

I thought of that. I have lots of standing dead cedar that should be cut down anyway, so such a project could kill two birds, so to speak.

To bad you was so far away, my son saws cedar shingles>>>>>>C&K shingle, he has a hard time finding cedar.

 

[Oldpath05]

Yes the truck is mine. It is my baby. A 2001 Ram 3500 with 360 (5.9L) gas motor.

I have tried all kinds of things. Road base works best because it packs together and acts like a solid piece if you don't use the road when it is real wet like spring mud season. Straight rock lasts for a while but slowly migrates into the mud and disappears. In my mind a $25 load of road base makes more sense for fixing a single mud hole like that than making a corduroy road. They are a ton of work. Maybe I am just lazy. I have done it both ways and like gravel. The easiest way for corduroy was to go to the saw mill and get some edge slabs but they chip everything now and slabs aren't available. I put this one in about 10 years ago with old RR ties that were free. It has lasted very well.

This was when it was dry

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When I finished

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I have some swamp roads that I can only use in winter when and if they freeze.

gg

That road base/gravel looks like crushed rock. Around here I seen some loggers use railroad ties for temp use, they put it down and take it back up with a big pulp loader, on fields, power lines.....

 

[Industrial Toys]

VERY, VERY NICE! I commend you on the condition of your equipment. I did zoom in on a fly speck on the front grill, I thought you should know about.

As for the shingles. I just ripped off my cedar shingles after twenty years. So sad! They just didn't last.

 

[CADplans]

I love the random size of crushed rock, it interlocks so well.
Single (or twin) sized stone rolls around like marbles. I use crushed random sized material extensively.
The great thing I like about random crushed rock, is that I can put it in at ANY depth.
Recently, I raised a portion of our parking area, some of it raised by a one foot depth.
The next day, I could drive on it, with no rock movement.

That can not happen on stone that is commonly called 57's,,,

 

[Rcsask]

Any info on your dump trailer would be appreciated

 

[4570Man]

I bought this trailer for the small sum of $300. I plan on building a small crane to go on it. The usefulness seems obvious and I plan to use it to assist in dumping. My uncle has a Chevy 3500 dump truck that I've used quite a bit ( probably more than he's used it. It's very useful, but I finally gave up on hauling rock. For me and the amounts I needed it wasn't economical vs paying a big truck to haul it. Back when we were building our house I should have bought a big truck and sold it when the house was finished. I ended up paying enough haul bill to buy a truck. And I would have moved more fill if it was only costing me $15 a load .

 

[Gordon Gould]

Any info on your dump trailer would be appreciated

It is a Pronovost trailer. An older P-503 model. The bed is about 50" X 69" inside ( about 4X6 ) and it is rated for a 1.5 ton payload. They are made in Canada but I have see local dealers. I bought mine used in Maine. Drove 4 hr one way. Small ones seem hard to find used.

EDIT: I should give credit to TBNer Piston who found this trailer for me. He found and bought his first then told me that the sellers brother had one for sale too !! I cound not pass it up.

I like the narrow width with the wheels underneath and the low sides. But the low sides are a compromise - If I want to carry a 1/2 cord of wood I need to add side boards but then it will be harder to reach or throw stuff in. But no worse than a p/u truck. Seems to handle easily with my 30 hp tractor even when loaded heavy and going down steepish hills which I wondered about before I tried it.

 

[Rcsask]

Awsome info thanks. I'll have to keep my eye open for it seeing that I'm in Canada.