Here Kitty Kitty

[wroughtn_harv]

Sometimes a little cat can be a big dawg!

 

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2004 Cat 420D using it's one and a quarter yard bucket to fill a little dump trailer.

 

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I made this trailer for a bud some years ago. It still works pretty good on occasion. It's eight by twelve and carrying three full Cat bucket's worth.

 

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I started with an all steel truck bed with a Harsh Hoist (pto). A couple of seven thousand Dexter Torkflex axles and a twelve volt pump, dump trailer.

 

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And it works, often, and well.

 

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Finally, that damp clay, (notice I used a "p" instead of an "n"?

 

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It's a really simple trailer. Here's a shot of the stuff that does the work.

 

[CRJCaptain]

Looks like a pretty solid dump trailer...nice job.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Isn't that the dump trailer you rebuilt after it came unhooked? If so it is nice to see its still going and staying attached like you planned.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Yup.

That puppy did a one and a half with a twist and Timex'd. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bgott]

Nice trailer! If I can get some working room around here I plan to gleefully plagiarize it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif How do you calculate the axle setback on the trailers you build? I was taught to set the axles back a foot from the center of the bed and that has worked out OK on the trailers I have built. The 16 footer I have now has the lead axle 4" back of the centerline and it tows great. Where do you set 'em?

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I always try to figure in enough tongue weight for the trailer to handle empty. But I also want the trailer to handle well with a load. It only took bud one ride with this trailer loaded improperly to discover the proper way to load it.

Here's kitty kitty with two yards plus in a one and quarter yard bucket.

 

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My view from the driver's seat.

 

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Once upon a time there was a friend of mine who had hundreds of yards of dirt that needed to be moved. And I also had another friend who needed hundreds of yards of dirt for fill.


The three and a half to four yard loads with the dump trailer was taking too long.

So we got a big gal involved, "Bue Angel".

 

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Yesterday she hauled nine loads to bud's place and three to a neighbor's. It's twenty plus yards to a load.

She'll be hauling today and tomorrow too.

Blue Ox even with a Bobcat bucket is biting into a lot to chew.

 

[bgott]

I guess it's one of those things where you have a little leeway. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I like to ask, even if the way I'm doing things is working. Just because it works doesn't mean I can't learn a better way of doing things.

 

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Yesterday about twelve thirty I arrived at my bud's to find this.

Each mound is the deposit of a twenty yard end dump. And they were predicting rain. This is all clay.

 

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So two men with two tractors got after it.

 

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One of the tractor operators was-is a little braver than he should be.

 

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But there's always a way to get out. Even if it involves chewing a humble pill.