ilovdieselsmoke
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I'm looking at purchasing an older hydraulic ram push out trailer. My friend has retired from a waste business. He has several roll off trucks, a few live floor trailers & a couple of heavy steel trailers with rams that pushed the garbage from the front out the back barn door. These two particular trailers have 9" hydraulic cylinders compared to some I have seen with 8" rams. He claims with the bigger hydraulic cylinders they will push out washout concrete, anything I would put on them! He always hauled very heavy loads with everything he owned including the roll offs but kept all equipment in top shape..
I am interested in using them for cow manure, land clearing debris, top soil, and possibly washout from a cement plant loaded by excavator once a month. He says they will even push out a load of fill dirt with the cylinder they in them. I have had trailer dumps in past as well as a couple of belly dumps but never experienced trailers like these two. They are extremely heavy/well built & look like what ever I were to do with them would be a break from what he used them for. Both are in decent shape with extra heavy center point spring suspension under them & are around 40 feet long.
Does anyone have experience with these hauling the type loads I described? Any tips on maintaining them? Or is this just a waste of my time? They both have been sitting for a couple years so I have a little work to get one road ready.
I have a tri-axle lowboy tractor with wet kit I was going to pull them with.
thanks,
I am interested in using them for cow manure, land clearing debris, top soil, and possibly washout from a cement plant loaded by excavator once a month. He says they will even push out a load of fill dirt with the cylinder they in them. I have had trailer dumps in past as well as a couple of belly dumps but never experienced trailers like these two. They are extremely heavy/well built & look like what ever I were to do with them would be a break from what he used them for. Both are in decent shape with extra heavy center point spring suspension under them & are around 40 feet long.
Does anyone have experience with these hauling the type loads I described? Any tips on maintaining them? Or is this just a waste of my time? They both have been sitting for a couple years so I have a little work to get one road ready.
I have a tri-axle lowboy tractor with wet kit I was going to pull them with.
thanks,