Overaxle dump trailer does it all. Or does it?

[rankrank1]

Just be careful with bumper pull dumps. I've pulled my 12x7 bumper pull dump for about 7 years with an 06 duramax. Needless to say I've put way to much tongue weight on it to many times and recently broke the truck frame. Pulled the two rear bolts through the frame and then bent the forward part of the frame where the front part of the hitch bolts on. The damage is only to the bottom part of the c channel frame. The factory hitch failed long ago. The trailer frame and replacement hitch are fine. We will scab a piece to the flat and upper part of the frame and try it again. I know, I know no one else would ever put that much tongue weight on.........

Good advice on being careful. I was repeatedly renting a 7x14 dumper from the local rental yard prior to buying my dumper. Last load of the day before I had to return it or pay 2 days more fees and I did not get it loaded quite right and I was running out of time. I had too much weight on the rear of the trailer and not enough tongue weight at all. Was using a pintle hitch to tow it and that trailer went into a 40 mph jiggle that I thought was going going to take me and the truck clear off the road. Would never have happened with a ball pull instead of that darned pintle, and even if it did it could have been very easy to correct if only the trailer would have had electric brakes instead of the built in surge brakes which I detest. I could have easily hit the brake controller in the truck and cleared it right up easy with electric brakes. Instead the surge brakes were useless as they relased every time the tailer zagged.

That was my last rental for that trailer as I said never again. I bought what I wanted in a 6x12 size dump trailer and I can take as much time as I want on getting it loaded just perfect so it is safe instead of being rushed with a rental.. While I had no issue with the factory class III hitch on my truck I have since upgraded the factory hitch to a Curt class V for yet another another level of slightly better safety margin. For less than $200 it seemed prudent. The class Curt V goes towards the front on the truck frame much farther farther than the factory mounting did. Curt incorporated load dispersing waher plates too which also help. While the truck frame is still what it was from the factory and thinner than I would like; the new Curt hitch utilizes additional forward mounts which does help increase what truck frame strength is there due to slightly better mounting geometry. That all said, I realize that my particular truck is not class V capable even though the hitch itself is. Still have to be careful loading it with my tow rig.

I still do need to upgrade the truck at some point too for even more margin when funds allow. Till then simply keeping the loads modest, but it is real easy to end up with a whopper load on a dumper before you realize it.

 

[CADplans]

I looked at deck-over trailers,,, then got this 10K trailer

After a decade,, I still think I got the right one!!
The very low loading height has been VERY helpful when my daughters moved.

I guess I have done probably a dozen moves,, the deck-over would have sat at home,,
no one wants to lift furniture that high.

I have hauled 5 tons of stone,, several times,, and felt safe because the material was so low.

 

[bigtiller]

Is that a 6x12?

 

[CADplans]

Is that a 6x12?

It is a 6X10.

 

[LD1]

Even a 20' long trailer is gonna be too small (short) for the L6060 if it has a loader and any implements.

 

[TMGT]

I have a 16ft deckover, I plan on building ramps for when I need to haul my tractor but it's not my first choice for moving my equipment, I use a 18ft low profile and one day hope to upgrade that with a 20-22ft rollback deckover.