Dumping offroad military trailer

[NS Gearhead]

I built this using scrap material... dunno what to call it... diverter, deflector, diffuser, director,... whatever. It's to dump the load pass or driver's side. To be installed before filling. Figure it'll save me some shoveling. It's going to be bolted on at the front using a single wing nut. I'm not worried that it's not pressure treated as it'll stay in the shed when not in use.

Used the rest of that can of rust check... man it didn't go far. I guess I'll need at least two more.

 

[NS Gearhead]

Worked on the fenders. When I made them for some reason I thought I wanted the fenders and extensions seperate... but I never had an instance when that was needed, so I;

Welded them together.
Primed the welds.
Seam sealed between them.

Rubberized undercoated them underneath.

Painted the extensions black

and painted the fenders body color. I'll give them another coat before calling them done.

I won't bother with clear coat on these, as they'll stay on a shelf in the shed until it's time to hit the road, wich is rare.

 

[NS Gearhead]

Back at it!

Put 4 more lag bolts in because the puck board was lifting in the sun and tearing the seam sealer out... hopefull this will force it to lift in the middle where it won't matter as much.


Started fitting cheater boards. 2x10, so it gives me another 9" where the sides are just 18"






Here's how the ends are going to be held. They're from PA and seem to be pretty beefy


Dunno if it'll be useful, but the gate can lower with the boards in place.


Re-seam sealed before being done for the day. That's it until I get more hardware and paint.

Oh, before anyone asks; this is just for lighter stuff... branches, bark mulch, maybe even firewood, but never rocks, gravel, or dirt.

 

[NS Gearhead]

Took it through the "Property line" trail for the first time today... well one length of it at least. The trip was just to see if it fit, and it kind of did. I'm going to tweek it a little to work better. I picked up a load of firewood on the way through.



I'll hammer out the part of the rock under the tire


I cut this big pople earlyer in the spring and placed it when I went through in a previous pass today to act as a retaining wall.


Ready for gravel!

 

[NS Gearhead]

Finally made it to the quary







V8 TJ dumping trailer - YouTube

Load #2




The square tubing doesn't hold much back




Dang it doesn't go far


Jeep and trailer worked great. The springs settled 1.5" on the trailer with the bigger load.

 

[deezler]

Man, they didn't have a front-loader at the quarry to fill your trailer for you?!? That's rough.

Looks like it worked great! Aside from the relatively limited cubic capacity. If the Jeep can pull and stop it, might as well put on the cheater boards and heap it up full, eh?

How was it to manually jack it up to dump it with a full load?

 

[NS Gearhead]

Well most of what they see at those bins are guys filling pails in their minivans. The policy is that they don't load single axle trailers, because the loaders have 10 yard buckets... and I hear some small trailers have been destroid there in the past. If I went down the road where they have a skid steer, it would cost twice as much.

The 2nd load took two hands on the jack for the 1st 1/4 of the way until the weight shifted back. Watch the hitch in the video... you can see exactly when that happens. LOL

 

[Renze]

The policy is that they don't load single axle trailers, because the loaders have 10 yard buckets... and I hear some small trailers have been destroid there in the past.

I know a guy that used to load sand at the quarry at saturday when he was young. Its hard to dose the right amount of sand with a big loader bucket, but on the other hand, the drivers liked to get people stuck with overflowing sand all around the perimeter of the trailer, meaning that they had to shovel their trailer out before they could drive off...

 

[Sfrankland]

I built this using scrap material... dunno what to call it... diverter, deflector, diffuser, director,... whatever. It's to dump the load pass or driver's side. To be installed before filling. Figure it'll save me some shoveling. It's going to be bolted on at the front using a single wing nut. I'm not worried that it's not pressure treated as it'll stay in the shed when not in use.

Used the rest of that can of rust check... man it didn't go far. I guess I'll need at least two more.

Really nice trailer but to be honest I like the Jeep even more. That v8 sounds good.

 

[Tig]

That's a nice working trailer and a great looking combo with the jeep.

 

[sodamo]

Nice job.

I personally just hate shoveling - any type.
Guess I'm lucky the loader guy at the quarry has a good touch.

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[NS Gearhead]

Thanks for the kind words guys! I was starting to think no one cared about my little trailer.

Cheater boards stained and hardware all on




One year's worth of refundables (there's a layer of bottles underneath LOL)


$5 6X8 tarp from PA


The stain turn out a little lighter then the hardtop, but for having chosen from color chips at the paint store it's not bad. I can live with it.

 

[Renze]

One year's worth of refundables (there's a layer of bottles underneath LOL)

So that was the reason to get the trailer done ?

 

[Whitnel]

Thats a nice looking set up.

 

[NS Gearhead]

LOL, I got all of $44 and change. Enough for a case of beer! Kinda sad considering it's an entire year's worth of colecting and storeing.

Thanks Whitnel! Just two more details and I'll call it done.

On my way to bring the recycles I stopped in to see the old timer I bought the trailer from (three years ago). He was thrilled. Took pics and everything. That made my day.

 

[Renze]

On my way to bring the recycles I stopped in to see the old timer I bought the trailer from (three years ago). He was thrilled. Took pics and everything. That made my day.

I know, those are the most rewarding moments: When people admire what you made of something they sold you as junk

 

[Den1952]

nice work there ! it has all the right "lines" to match the jeep.
maybe someday in the future you'll be caught up enough to put a hyd. cyl on it , by then the initial expense wont seem to matter as much , that'd be history.
my little king kutter dump trailer had a hand operated pump built on, I put a 2nd line of hoses to the cylinder with quick connects (to bypass the hand pump) and then put a self contained 12volt pump, motor , reservoir to it and mounted that part to the rear deck of my 4-wheeler. powered by a standalone 12 volt deep cycle battery. the battery last several days of dumping before needing a recharge.
but my point is, that if you were to do that also further down the line, you would be more than extremely satisfied that you had done that. about 5 seconds for full tilt.
Den

 

[Tig]

Thanks! I was going to use hydraulics and started gathering parts... but it was going to be too expensive... and I had the jack already. It's rated for 5,000lbs and my caculations say that a full load of gravel should be near 3,500lbs... and that's not being lifted, just tilted. The only drawback is that when it comes to spreading gravel it will be a two man job. One driving once the load starts to pour, and another on the jack.

Hydraulics are slick, but a $60 electric winch and pulley will do the same job. You just need to run sufficient power from your jeep's battery. I power a home made "load handler" like this.

 

[sodamo]

Hydraulics are slick, but a $60 electric winch and pulley will do the same job. You just need to run sufficient power from your jeep's battery. I power a home made "load handler" like this.

Would love to see how you did that - details and pics if possible. I want to power my Loadhandler

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

 

[Tig]

Would love to see how you did that - details and pics if possible. I want to power my Loadhandler

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Check out this thread for discussion and a video.
The video link did not work from my iPad, but it should work from a computer.