Re: Stock trailer

Posted by thurlow on December 17, 2012 at 09:51:06 from (74.177.51.121):

In Reply to: Re: Stock trailer posted by randallinMo on December 17, 2012 at 09:15:27:

I first starting buying 'em from a large 'crane and rigging' company in Memphis; a big percent of their business was with Memphis Light, Gas and Water. When I first drove onto their yard, I saw more poles than I thought existed. They sold a lot of their smaller....6-10 inch....poles to farmers, contractors, etc. What they had were HUGE......some as much as 24 inch diameter. They were a dollar a running foot; they cut 'em to your specification and what you got was GOOD. They wouldn't cut 'em 'til I was sitting on the yard and sometimes I had to wait. After a few loads, when the owner figured out that I was gonna show up, he'd cut 'em ahead of time and they were waiting on me when I showed up. (they always loaded 'em). I also bought one trailer truck load; an independent trucker that he knew delivered 'em to me. I got to know the owner a little bit and when he found out what I was doing with them, lo and behold, one time when I showed up, he had bought a band mill, set it up in a shed and his employees were sawing 'em up in their 'down' time. I eventually found out that the P & L company in a small town about 25 miles North of me would sell 'em for 10 cents a running foot, but I had to drag 'em out, cut 'em up and load 'em. Carried a farm tractor w/fel and hauled several loads from there. (the office guy wouldn't even come out to see what I had......would just ask how many feet I had). I eventually got tied up with T*A and never bought any more. The ones from the cities ALWAYS had hardware in them.......usually staples from yard sale signs, but occasionally something bigger. Only thing in the free ones was the large bolts used to tie cross members to 'em. They're not as strong as oak or something similar, but I don't think I ever broke one. At one time, I had 21 cattle guards made from 'em; 8 x 16s on the ground on each end; 8 x 8 or 10 x 10 as 'runners' and 3 bys for flooring. Depending on the length, I think they'd work fine for a wagon bed. I've got a 7 x 14 ft trailer bed on 2 of 'em.......3 x 10s, I think.

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