Rando stuff like trailers and tractors

[SuperBuickGuy]

So, if you carry a forklift on 2 - 3500 lb axles, you'll bend the axle.... weird, no?
time for some 6000# axles

out with the old

in with the new


In all fairness, that forklift might bend these axles... oh well,.... part 2 soon?

[SuperBuickGuy]

I have another pair of 8000# juice axles - now they are part axles because they gave up their springs - and this is fine because I'm planning on building an 5th wheel equipment trailer (no need for springs)

old, whimpy springs

now with new brakes

and installed

all that is left is wiring and finding wheels.... 6 lug 5 1/2

[SuperBuickGuy]

now wired

[SuperBuickGuy]

I agree with Patrick McManus about lights

though I do have a better then average way of testing them


the problem with those lights, they're burned out...

[silver_bullet]

Trailer won't tow as well without the hubcaps....

[SuperBuickGuy]

Trailer won't tow as well without the hubcaps....

it's true. You wouldn't believe the trouble I had pulling it out of the shop... sure, the brakes were on because I'd pulled the pin but it was clearly harder

[SuperBuickGuy]

trailer done, now to fix it's normal load
this should be one piece

and fit right here

and add a spot for a hole... so grabbed a bit of scrap

then did a bit of siliconing with my mig

ready to reinstall on the tractor

just like factory

[Loren]

I once borrowed a trailer w/ 3500# axles to haul a forklift, fortunately I was only going across town, the axles and tires looked stressed to the max and the forklift tire broke through the wood deck. Those suckers are heavy. I was lucky 'way back when I first bought a partially-completed car-hauler-trailer, the seller was touting the 5,000# six-lug axles which I was OK with because bigger is better even though I didn't think I needed them, but in the time since, I've loaded that thing up pretty well. Last was 4 tons of steel beams for a 300 mile drive, there the 20' length beams became a polar-moment-of-inertia deal which is much of the reason my next trailer (sitting uncompleted, I-guess waiting for when I really need it) is a 5th wheel (w/ 3 six-lug axles). I would really like to go my whole life without ever once having a jack-knife accident.

Happily a buddy got a deal on a 40' gooseneck tandem/dually and was there to help when I needed a ride for this old Case backhoe I bought last year. It will be my hope that my own trailer will haul it OK, I believe the tractor is under 10K.

Friggin' Case, the "rebuilt" injection pump performed flawlessly long enough for the demo and to get it off the trailer and is now kaput. Add project # 150 to the list.

[SuperBuickGuy]

nice trailer. My next will be a gooseneck. The 1 ton dually already has a hitch... with that said, moving my brake, shear, lathe and mill - I'm having a friend with a stout gooseneck haul it for me....