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big tee

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Saw this--Whoops--A little too much tongue weight---
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There are thousands of those guys out there. "But....but.....in the commercial they show......."
 
My dad had a small gravel & sand pit in the 1960's. People always over-estimated their load hauling capacities AND capabilities in order to get an extra dollars worth of fill and often ended up buying new u-joints, springs, or worse if they insisted they ...could handle just a bit more.
 
The sand and gravel pit near me has scales on pay loader.
If you ask for 7k of gravel. Pay loader operator will get you very close to 7k.
 
Took my 16 ft trailer to a sand pit once.

Had it behind a 01 Silverado 1/2 ton. Pulled into the yard, idiot driving a huge loader drove up and dumped the full, heaping bucket full force onto the trailer. It covered the trailer, pouring over the sides! Tried to get him to take some off, nope, he was leaving.

I didn't have a shovel, nothing I could do but go with it. Some fell off on the rough road out of the pit, but it was wet enough it wasn't blowing too bad.

I made it, but was an extremely heavy load. One big hill I had to pull, about half way up the transmission started chattering and slipping! But it made it, apparently no ill effects!
 

Would have been no problem at all with a weight distributing hitch!
They are made to allow overloading the tongue weight and they prevent sway when the trailer is loaded tail heavy!

Right????

:roll:
 
I came pretty close to doing that once. I had a rock quarry near me and needed gravel for a driveway so I took my trailer to get some and the guy put too much on it. I had to disconnect the trailer and go and get a shovel and move gravel farther to the back. I never went back for more gravel. I figure he did it on purpose to keep the DIY people out.
 
Good loader operator just uses the corner of the bucket and shakes a little at a time unless sticky top soil.
One of my dump trucks dumped his load twice at the gravel pit because loader operator couldn't center load. Was all to one side when he got to job. Gave up on the operator.
 
I will have to stop by a RAM dealership and take a look under the back to decide if this is photo shopped. Maybe have to look at the new Chevys and Fords as well. I know the receiver on newer Chevys is round tube that is welded in and has a slight bow down where the square receiver tube attaches in the center.
 
(quoted from post at 13:11:50 08/08/21) I will have to stop by a RAM dealership and take a look under the back to decide if this is photo shopped. Maybe have to look at the new Chevys and Fords as well. I know the receiver on newer Chevys is round tube that is welded in and has a slight bow down where the square receiver tube attaches in the center.
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he hitch very likely held, but the frame bent just aft of cab.
 
Did that once loading a coal in southern In. Loader operator insisted on loading a Camel hump in the center of my trailer . I tried to tell him i wanted two in the nose , two in the back and one and a half in the center . He put one in the nose , one in the back and two in the center making it stand three feet above the boards . To get the point across to him i was unhappy i went after him with my tire billy i went up the ladder on the left side and he jumped to the ground off the right side and took off running . So i loaded myself the way i wanted it . Back in my early days of coal hauling 90% of the places we hauled coal out of was self service loading and you best be able to run all sizes and flavors of loaders . Some small Maw and Paw operations you may load with a I H Hough 65 and the next place was a 992 cat the small one would take 12 buckets to get a load and a 992 it was two and a pinch and ya had a charge on .
 

I have seen a 97 chevy bend like that while lifting it. I don't know the particulars other than it was an old garage center post lift. On some the frame takes a sharp upward bend up just behind the cab. You can set your lift on the flat part in front of it, I try my best to set the lift on the rear spring hangers to even out the load but it not always possible.

One more thing its a challenge to lift newer trucks if it has running boards its a bear sometimes. They know they are going on a lift thru their life can they not make them lift friendly...

I worked on a 99 f350 superduty with a steel flatbed that's loaded with Equitment. I told him the last time I worked on it that its not going back on my lift he said the Ford dealer told him the same thing... Its tail heavy and a lift breaker... The bad his pockets are loaded and he does not mind spending it... Some of the newer Fords are the same I turn them down for the fact they are so difficult to set the lift up to safely lift them.
 
I thought the frame might have bent over the axle, but the front of the box looks like it is still resting on (or straining against) the frame.
 
Yup, used to have the key to one gravel pit and loaded myself many times. Another one the loader operator insisted I stand on the loader ladder as he loaded my truck so he could visit:)
 
Looks to be on a half ton possibly. I think putting a dump trailer on any half ton is just plain crazy unless you dont plan on hauling anything. And I mean weight wise. We have a 24 goose neck which Ive hauled so decent loads on. Pretty much maxed out the truck and trailer like Sv. In my honest opinion was the drivers fault not the guy loading it. Ive been there as the loader. Just a little more . Ok a little more. Then something like this happens. When I worked at a place that sold aggregate and soil happened a lot. If thats what they wanted thats what they got. When youd try to tell them they didnt want to hear it. Once over the scales and out the door it was their problem !
 
THe tires are not squatting at all. And yes Chevy frame will bend on a hoist if the truck is heavy(utility bed)and you try to lift on the rear frame,you must lift on the front spring eye mount. BTDT! Six foot beds were not a problem. That has got to be a ten ton load on that thing.
 
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