When I was hay grinding, I used to have a flat bed goose neck beaver tail trailer with dual wheels and tandem axles. It had hydraulic disk brakes. I had a tub grinder that was all a 1 ton pickup could handle. At some jobs I needed to bring my own loader tractor which sometimes meant 2 trips. One day I mounted a 5 wheel ball on the back of the flat bed to pull the grinder. I beefed up the hitch on the flat bed and bought a GMC Brigadier single axle to pull this with. After some adaptation I got the flatbed's brakes to work with the truck's air brakes. This set-up worked great--I even got the electric brakes on the tub grinder to work, too. The hardest part of the whole deal was hooking the flatbed up to the grinder--most days I could get it on the first shot but some days it was more like 10 shots.
I still wish I had the Brigadier and the flat bed--they would be pretty handy now.
My trailer now is a home-made tandem axle tilt bed. It is really nice for hauling old John Deere tractors because no ramps are required. It has a crank and screw mechanism for the tilt, and I might adapt it to a hydraulic jack later--the screw thing is not the best, at least for the lazy man
It is a bumper pull and I use my 66 F**d 1/2 ton for light stuff or my 42 1.5 ton for heavy, long hauls. I am looking for an electric winch to pull on dead tractors. I will put a 120 amp alternator on the truck so the battery will be able to keep.
[ 01-20-2002: Message edited by: Racecarl ]
