Archive through January 28, 2008

[aaytay]

Kraig-
"Art, I bet it'd cost more in fuel then a buck to drive out to Hwy 18 and back..."

Hey! Who's side are you on anyway?!??!?

Charlie-
Here's a tip I learned from an old salt on the boat-docks a few years back....

When it warms up, spray the top of that moldy fiberglass hood down with a spray bottle full of a H2O/Bleach Water mixture. <font size="-2">It won't take much bleach...a few ounces in a spray bottle of water should be good.</font>

Let it sit for a few minutes, give it a light scrub with a scrub brush, then hose it down.

...'Course, if you're going to leave the duct-tape on that seat inside, you may just want to keep the matching mold.

 

[eford]

WOW! My buddy Tom almost bought a single axle 1978 at an auction last fall, diesel, hydraulic brakes, only thing we couldn't take trailer with us that was on back, wouldn't make it out of yard it was so bad. Wish he'd bought it now...

 

[dfrisk]

CHARLIE - Make Sure You get an AIR RIDE Seat for Your co-pilot. After I started driving O-t-R I took My Wife for a Sunday ride to Chicago out of Davenport. Her seat was bolted solid to the floor and after about 40 miles of I-80 She was about beat to death. And that was loaded to 75,000# gross. Those old Binders were never noted as being a smooth riding truck.

 

[digger]

Dennis,
Scroll down the page a bit, I bought the one I posted the pic of.
Thing is, I might just take IT and give her the old one!

 

[gerickson]

Thought I'd post a pic of what we have been doing this summer. Been fun. Got 2nd at this pull.

 

[gerickson]

Saturday we helped a guy move this truck out of a part of his old barn that was falling in on it. He has 8 IH trucks and Scouts. This 4 door is from California and has 51K miles. It has not moved in 5 plus years. Very, very dirty. We worked out a deal and soon it will be following us home. It will tow the trailer and black IH truck around. Should make a nice pair.

 

[bbranstetter]

Nice! Good find.

 

[junderwood]

Nice find Gus. I would love to have one those old 4 door IH trucks. I need to get moved somewhere that I have room for one and a place to work on it first though. Can't wait to see it on the road.

 

[thoffman]

Looking for a ride for a compact diesel tractor north east of Indy to north west Chicago area.

 

[sblunier]

I would like your thoughts and ideas on trailer winches. I will soon be adding a winch to my soon to be delivered trailer and would like ideas opinions etc. concerning the pros and cons of an electric vs. std manual "crank". Wire rope vs. strap. Mounting...neat ideas, etc.

Let me know what you have done so I can come up with a good solution from the start.

90% of cargo will be GT's and general building materials. The other 10% could be cars, ag implements, etc.

Trailer tongue will be like this....

 

[kmcconaughey]

Steve, perhaps you could post some photos of the winch setup you had on your old trailer, I thought that was a pretty good setup. What did you like and dislike about it?

 

[mbounds]

Steve B: I bought one of those portable battery-operated electric winches (in my case, from Harbor Freight). It has a wire cable.

I think it's slicker than goose grease...I have pulled all kind of "dead" stuff up on our trailer that is similar to the one you showed. I like the portable version because no matter what the angles are, I can locate the winch to get the job done. I have even used it to help redirect the fall of trees, which otherwise would fallen on an immovable object like houses, roofs, or power lines etc..

That is what I would suggest you give a thought to.

Myron B
CCSupplyRoom

 

[dfrisk]

STEVE - I'd definitely go for a battery-operated cable winch with a remote control on a cord. And to hold all Your straps, chains, & binders put one of those angle-sided boxes in front on the hitch. And an idea Wyatt gave Me yrs ago, PUT the winch inside the toolbox bolted down solid. Also need a battery to run the thing so a deep cycle Optima could live in there too. How heavy a winch You need depends on how heavy of stuff Your going to need to winch onto the trailer frequently.
Most of the boxes I've seen could hold the winch & battery with though room for 2-3 plastic 5-gal. buckets to hold ratchet straps, tarp straps, chains, binders, jacks, wheel chocks, etc. And make the box lockable....VERY lockable.

 

[sblunier]

Kraig,

These are the existing winch photos on the current 6'4"x12' trailer.

I will have a different set up on the new trailer. The jack is folding, removeable side ramps will take up the side storage space and the nylon strap on the existing winch has been a mixed blessing...easy on lumber, etc., but very hard to protect from rough edges and other hazards...plus they fade/weaken in the UV sunlight.

Looking for good ideas since I get the opportinity to "start over" from scratch.

 

[gerickson]

We too have a little portable winch for our trailer. It is handy for dead snowmobiles and Cub Cadets. Pat and I are looking into a much larger unit to drag the black truck up on there. We solid mounted an 8000lb Bulldog jack at the front of the trailer so I don't have any free space there. The little flip Bulldog was not gonna cut it.

 

[pbell]

Steve,
I use one of the portable, 2000 lb, 12V winches, the kind with the mount plate that will hook over a trailer ball. My trailer is 22" long and has 30 "D" rings mounted on the bed/deck and secured to the crossmembers. I can hook the winch to any of those D rings to use it. Power comes from the truck factory wiring harness (7 pin connector), and is the power feed for a battery in a camper. It is hard wired from the truck/trailer connector to a water proof box (GI ammo box) mid way back the left side of the trailer. The box holds the winch wire harness (hard wired) and remote cable. Hook the winch to a "D" ring, plug the power and remote cables into the winch and you are in business. The power wire in the truck factory harness is a 8 or 10 gage wire, and I have not had any problems with it. I think the winch came from Wally World, but you can find them at Harbor Frieght, Northern etc. The heaviest thing I have used it on was a dead Cub Lo-Boy and pulled it single wire, but would have been easier on the winch if I had used a snatch block or double wire.

 

[gerickson]

Just another thought on trailers. I went from a 10 footer to a 14 utility. Now I've got the 18 car hauler. I do not think it matters how big the trailer is. A man is still gonna fill it up and wish for another two feet!

 

[aaytay]

Steve-
My thought is to get yourself an old Jeep. Put a MASSIVE front bumper on it with a #10,000 winch mounted to the front. Drive it up on the trailer backwards, parking it toward the front. WaaaLaaa... Instant winch!

 

[mtoney]

Here is our future cub hauler, got her free from a buddy, 3.9L V6 5spd. Lots of miles but solid and runs good. Getting a fresh paint job in a week or so. I need to find a recieve hitch for it. Cheers Mike

 

[dfrisk]

ART - I had a Buddy yrs ago when I worked @ FARMALL who did something like that...except it was a Club Cab 3/4 ton DODGE PowerWagon, had a PTO driven winch on the frt bumper. He & His Dad did tree work on the side.... One tree they were dropping was on a lot with the town's watertower. Tied the back bumper to the watertower and tied the winch to the tree to control the direction it would drop. The winch ran off the transfer case behind the automatic transmission, Idling in low gear running the winch with the T-case in neutral they pulled the frt wheels of that truck several feet in the air. When the tree finally fell it "BOUNCED" pretty hard. They were lucky they didn't pull the old truck in TWO!

GLEN E. - Nice old Binder pulling truck! I've heard of that same problem of "TWO-FOOT-Itus" with boats too. I was going to start wit a 20 ft trailer, last trailer I rented was a 16 ft W/2 ft beavertail. Now My dream trailer is 22 ft long!

Should have room for a FARMALL and a couple Cub Cadets. Maybe even BOTH Farmall's