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Ramp Design and Auto-Lock System

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DO NOT buy a trailer until you see this.

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Josh demonstrates the standard equipment ramps and compares them to upgraded 'wedge-style' ramps. The upgraded ramps are wider, heavier, and lay completely flat on the ground, offering more surface contact. He also introduces a new 'auto-lock system' for the ramps, which is more robust and eliminates the need for manual sliding or external pins, improving safety and convenience. This system is contrasted with traditional ramp locking mechanisms that can damage the ramp or become dislodged during travel.

Goal: Evaluate the stability and convenience of different ramp designs.

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  • Standard Equipment Ramps Rice Trailers — Comparison of different ramp types

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>> Right now, as I look at this, I look at the ramps on this one. I look at the ramps on this one. Even the ramps from this one to that one are an upgrade. >> Yeah. So, it's it's kind of gradual. So, on the So, on the 14K, you've got your standard just equipment ramps is what you've got. And that we've been doing that for years. Um standard ramp straps. This one you upgrade a little bit. You go to a wedge style ramp, a bigger ramp. So, that one's got the kicker on it, which your kicker will come down and hit the ground. This one's made to lay the entire ramp, so you get a little bit more surface contact. kicker. I Josh talks trailer, okay? And he talks trailer fast. So, as you look at this ramp, it's got a clear V wedge shape where on that one, it's just got the support right on the very bottom. >> And that's that ramp there, too, is probably heavier. Most of the industry has like a kicker that you can bolt on and it's that one's fully welded on. And then you just use the whole profile of ramp on this. The ramp gets a little heavier. Um it's it it's just a little bit more robust, you know, it's and and it's also too it's wider. It's a little bit wider. >> Yeah, it's a wider heavier >> still kind of slide it over. So if your tracks aren't, you know, you don't want four or five inches of track hanging over if you're on a smaller skid steer or like a walk behind or something, you know, you can still slide it. Um but then we go over here to this one. So now you graduate it up to this. Now, the thing about this, this is our new autolock system, and these ramps are heavy. They're very heavy. So, you got your center support that runs down them. Um, and this one is non-adjustable. So, that being you don't ever have to slide it back and forth. And then as you're going down the road, everybody knows our roads here are just great, you know? So, we're going to bounce up and down, bounce up and down. Like that one, it's probably going to end up working. you know, this ramp and then you work it over like that right there. So, every time, you know, that's going to make that that's going to lock that pin in there where it's hard to and the only way to do it is, you know, do you want your ramp to slide or not? You know, it's always >> personally I don't like these secure systems, secure will operate it, but >> every time every time I've ever experienced >> Now you've got this. >> Yeah. It's going up or it's going down…

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