trailer rear support while loading

[apm]

I've just purchased a skid steer that weighs about 6000 lbs. I've got a 14,000 GVW trailer that's a bumper pull. Loading the skid steer with ramps lifts the back of the truck. The ramps have no "legs" on them.

How do most people support the back of the trailer when loading? I thought of a jack on each corner. Maybe just weld legs on the ramps? What do you guys do?

Greg

 

[CM1995]

Get some angle iron and weld some support legs on the ramps. I can't remember how many ramps I have had repaired or adjusted over the years.

Hook the trailer up to your truck and measure the distance from the ramp where it connects to the trailer and weld some angle iron "struts/legs" to the ramps. That should help with your problem.

What kind of truck are you pulling it with?

 

[andrewpond]

If your ramps are fixed and hinged then yes follow cm1995. But I use slide in/detached ramps and use trailer jacks on each rear corner. Ground/road aways seem different height. I use ones that pin to round coupler so if they get damage just unpin and replace.

 

[apm]

I'm pulling it with a Dodge 2500. I'm afraid if just using angle iron for legs, won't it damage pavement?

 

[OzDozer]

Carry some heavy-section wooden blocks such as 6" x 4" or 8" x 4" and place them under the rear of the trailer when loading and unloading.
Leave enough room to allow you to get them out when loaded, or to pull forward easily, to recover them after you're loaded.

 

[buckfever]

I second Oz's post. Thats a easy quick solution but if your looking for a legs on your ramps use 3" C channel. Make a U and weld it just above the where the ramp attaches to the trailer.

 

[dsgsr]

A quick and cheap solution, cut a hardwood log 8-10" diameter. Load trailer, cut hardwood 2-4" short of distance of lowest part of trailer to ground. One for each side.


David

 

[Aruba1]

Can you post pics of the trailer/ramps? with mine, I used to just drove my skid steer (8000 lb) with ramps not having no legs.

 

[johndeere123]

You could always make a set of legs that slide up and down with a pin holding them, alot cheaper and faster than using a jack on each side.

 

[johndeere123]

http://www.pjtrailers.com/options/rear-support-stands/ something like this

 

[dixon700]

http://www.pjtrailers.com/options/rear-support-stands/ something like this

I just bought a 8' x 16' load trail dump trailer. It has the slide in ramps so I figured it would have these built in, but it didn't. So I guess at some point I'm gonna build a set like this. I also thought of putting a single in the center underneath that just folds down. Because mine has the 3 way gate and the fold down sides.

 

[old-iron-habit]

A ten inch block cut to length with one end cut 90 degrees and the other beveled a couple inches works well on my bumper hitch. Flat down, tapered up, you have a couple inches of adjustment to make up for uneven ground. I snug mine and pull ahead to tip them out. My 26,000 lb gooseneck has the built in jacks on the corners.