Loading a reefer box on a gooseneck trailer.

rockyridgefarm · Nov 22, 2020

This was way outta my comfort zone. We only had a backhoe a omc skid steer a couple tables and a piece of truck frame. It worked, but I did not like any step of it all.

I went up to blooming prairie Minnesota today to bring this reefer to a friend. I left at 4am and got there at 715. Loaded and gone by 945. Should have it at his place at 1

showcrop · Nov 22, 2020

Those don't weigh anything. I moved one once that I bought for the 4H Foundation food concession at the local Ag fair. IIRC I put it in the back of my E-350. It was all knocked down.

kcm.MN · Nov 22, 2020

Looks like a job well done.

AzPeapicker · Nov 22, 2020

Good Morning Rocky Ridge farm
Are you located in Missouri ? If so where ?
Please let me Know .
We have a farm in Jerico Springs ,Mo.
We live in Chandler ,Az. Have now for 35 years due
to the wife s R/H .
Looks like it will be a while longer before I get
back as the wife does not travel well .

AZpeapicker PH 480-250-3864

DR. EVIL · Nov 22, 2020

SHOWCROP - Really? What's "Nothing" to you? Company I drove for had a 40 ft reefer, thing weighed just a
bit over 20,000# EMPTY. That's no fuel in the reefer tank, no pallets or skids. The floor was aluminum
rails, so you could wash the inside down if needed. The trailers rigged to haul swinging beef had
structural beams to support the rails the hooks hooked onto, regular dry boxes you can't even walk on
the roofs, they used to be thin aluminum sheet, now they use fiberglass or plastic panels. Our 20 new
Great Dane 45 ft shiny stainless steel dry boxes weighed about 14,000# each empty for comparison.
I would not want to strap a reefer box on a gooseneck trailer! I would have hired somebody to bobtail
to the reefer and pull it home.

rockyridgefarm · Nov 22, 2020

It weighs 6000lbs

rockyridgefarm · Nov 22, 2020

Hey peapicker, I am in Wisconsin

showcrop · Nov 22, 2020

Ahhhh, it looks a lot different from the side and full height.

Jim.ME · Nov 22, 2020

(quoted from post at 14:42:50 11/22/20) SHOWCROP - Really? What's "Nothing" to you? Company I drove for had a 40 ft reefer, thing weighed just a
bit over 20,000# EMPTY. That's no fuel in the reefer tank, no pallets or skids. The floor was aluminum
rails, so you could wash the inside down if needed. The trailers rigged to haul swinging beef had
structural beams to support the rails the hooks hooked onto, regular dry boxes you can't even walk on
the roofs, they used to be thin aluminum sheet, now they use fiberglass or plastic panels. Our 20 new
Great Dane 45 ft shiny stainless steel dry boxes weighed about 14,000# each empty for comparison.
I would not want to strap a reefer box on a gooseneck trailer! I would have hired somebody to bobtail
to the reefer and pull it home.

He didn't say reefer trailer. Would be interesting to see a bobtail tractor pulling that box, how would you suggest hooking it up? Looks ok on that gooseneck trailer to me.

SVcummins · Nov 22, 2020

caterpillar guy · Nov 23, 2020

So what exactly was the problem raise up and back under it. Looks simple enough. I've done the same thing with backhoes. Set front bucket on trailer deck, and raise front wheels up and shove it ahead with the hoe, then with wheels on trailer slightly lift bucket so wheels roll then finish shoving it on to the trailer. Lift hoe and drive forward. Have unloaded reversing the same process. Load and unload excavators like that too. No dock. Had a 6or710 Deere hoe that didn't drive but ran raised it up and backed under then used the hoe to push it forward on the trailer.

rockyridgefarm · Nov 23, 2020

I was expecting to have two loaders. Pick up each side, drive truck out form under, and back my trailer under. Easy peasy.

What we did was lift the back end with the backhoe, stick a pipe under the box across the frame, roll it back until it got tippy. Then lift the front with the lil OMC, stick the too-short frame piece with a bad weld in the middle between the tables with blocking to get it high enough to clear the tires.

Since the frame piece was too short, we then had to put wood chunks under the Mansfield bar, bring the backhoe around to the side, lift the frame piece with a chain, and remove one table.

We then backed the trailer under until it hit the frame piece, set the front down on a pair of floor jacks, brought the backhoe back around to the rear, lifted it up, and pushed it forward.

All is well that ends well, but it was sure nerve wracking with the thing teetering the whole time. Guy kept asking what I thought, and I kept saying it was his rodeo, I am just one of the clowns. I also told him if it drops, I am just gonna drive away, and he agreed.

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 23, 2020

SV, where's the YTDOT on this one? I can't see where anyone is saying it's illegal or not properly secured or anything like that... Just one guy who misunderstood what was being hauled.

Loading a reefer box on a gooseneck trailer.

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