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Material Explanation and Real-World Durability

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How they Build the Worlds Toughest Trailer

What happens here

After the telehandler demonstration, Josh and Don discuss the material of the trailer bed. Josh, the Stony Ridge Farmer, steps onto the recovered trailer bed, bouncing and applying pressure to further illustrate its flexibility and resistance to damage. Don explains that the bed is made from a 'virgin polyethylene polymer' which is highly durable and can bounce back from impact. He recounts a story about a previous CargoMax trailer that was totaled by a falling tree but later recovered its shape due to the polymer's memory.

Goal: Explain the material composition and provide anecdotal evidence of the trailer bed's long-term durability.

Tools and materials

  • CargoMax Trailer Bed — Being physically tested and discussed

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thank you everybody [Music] hold that for a minute left for a minute double fisting yeah [Music] this is what we just crushed so all right I mean you guys can just see how robust it is it's a UV tolerance uh polymer plastic is that right what kind of talking yeah that's a virgin polyethylene polymer oh yeah we're just polyethylene this is this I'm done done the cargo Max about 15 years ago one of the biggest questions was always because people they look at it they take a plastic spray well it's kind of good but yeah so there was all kinds of durability questions people would say it probably won't survive I don't think so we started doing all kinds of durability kind of abusive destruction tests yeah and that's always what we've pretty much you know got past people's concerns well stay inside a while back and he wanted to take that test too a whole nother left yeah and I would think everything has a Breaking Point right so when you did when you said that I was like all right we can try it yeah I mean I think it's 20 some thousand pounds yeah yeah so I thought well we probably will find the breaking point yeah so we did did that before now we just did it again and you know that polymer is just is so durable bounces right back huh can you imagine running over a metal trailer can you tell Josh and his channel the story about the tree falling on that trailer real quick maybe in like a minute or less yeah so that was a customer back uh probably 15 years ago

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