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Operate Dump Trailer

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Bobcat lets me down again...How a dump trailer works, Return of the Red Beaver..moving wood chips!

What happens here

The presenter provides a detailed explanation of how the hydraulic dump trailer works. He shows the remote switch that controls the hydraulic cylinders (powered by the truck's battery and an auxiliary battery in the trailer's toolbox). He demonstrates unlatching the tailgate, which swings open, and then uses the remote to lift the trailer bed, effectively dumping the wood chips. He highlights the "fully extended" position for the bed to ensure all material is dumped and mentions a safety bar for working underneath.

Goal: Safely unload the wood chips at the destination.

Tools and materials

  • Auxiliary Battery N/A — Powering the hydraulic pump
  • Hydraulic Cylinders N/A — Lifting the trailer bed
  • Remote Switch N/A — Controlling the hydraulic lift
  • Safety Bar N/A — Securing the raised trailer bed
  • Wood Chips — Ground cover for camping area

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trailer is built by quality steel and aluminum products I'm sure you can look them up online I'm not gonna do a sales pitch on this thing but I'll show you how it works it's really nice to have basically the power runs off your battery in your car and there is a hydraulic cylinder maybe two hydraulic cylinders underneath here and they're all ran by a switch and basically as simple as it can be switch goes up and down okay so this remote switch will reach all the way up to the cab so if you wanted to haul gravel or something like that the single haul 14 tons so I could haul gravel for my driveway or whatever I wanted to do you can also set it up in the back I'll take you over here and show you you can set it up in the back to dump gravel like in a smooth fashion so I haven't got that good with it yet and you really can't haul a whole lot of gravel 14 tons of gravel my mistake 14,000 pounds not 14 tons 14,000 pounds of gravel is not very much gravel okay guys so I'd rather just hire truck and have it brought in here 17 tons which is 36 thousand pounds three times the payload of this thing almost let's show you the back I'll show you how it opens so the trailer comes with ramps on it so you can haul stuff with it and it has little hooks right here a little spot where you hook your ramp up to and I'll show you how we're going to dump this it's pretty simple okay swings all the way up locks into place so both of those swung wide open click back into place now if you want to set it up for dumping gravel there's a little setting right here and a chain that you can loosen it up right there and you can set it up to where it only opens about this much or this much and you can do gravel with it so let's dump this stuff now what I didn't tell you is when you dump like this this trailer has to set up pretty high off the ground in order to dump your whole load off you can't dump your whole load without pulling forward a little bit and letting it kind of slide out so we'll hop in the truck and pull forward normally I would have the truck running while I'm doing this but there are three batteries at work here there's two batteries in the truck and there is one battery inside the battery box over here I'll pull up here and we'll go underneath and I'll show you how all the hydraulic system works this thing left a pretty big pile I'm pretty happy with it so here's what we look like empty and fully extended when you dump this thing you need to fully extend it go all the way…

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