Hey guys, just wanted to spitball an idea I had for a way to unload refuse from a utility type trailer.
The last thread I posted "Mobile Home Demo" I estimated that there will be about 100 cyds of trash that will have to be disposed of. Of course, my first thought was to have 3-30 yd roll offs set for this trash. The cost will be just under $2,000. If I could haul it off myself on my 22' utility trailer, I could save the customer about $600.00 and put a healthy chunk of the remainder in my own pocket instead of giving it to the roll off company.
By putting 2' side boards on my GN, I think I can get about 12 yards of refuse on it. The top of the sideboards would be 2' above the bed. The problem is getting the trash off. Some landfills offer a pull off service, others don't. Mine doesn't.
I am thinking about building an "extractor plate" to set in the front of the trailer bed. This plate would consist of a 3"X3"X1/4" steel tube set across the trailer bed with 4-2' uprights of the same material welded to it and a tongue also welded to the bar. It would need to be heavy enough to withstand the forces involved in the extraction but light enough so that it could be manhandled back to the front of the trailer once the extraction was over. I would mount a 12000lb winch (which I have sitting on the shelf) to the front of the trailer. I would route the cable from the front of the trailer over two pulleys then underneath the trailer bed, over two more pulleys at the rear of the trailer and then over the top of the trailer bed to the tongue on the extractor plate.
I should be able to stand at the rear of the trailer with a radio remote for the winch and pull the extractor plate to the rear of the trailer pushing the trash off the end of the trailer.
I don't think this will work for pulling off high density loads like concrete, brick or fill dirt. It might however work fine on broken up walls, mixed roofing materials, brush etc.
Since a proper dump truck or even a dump trailer is probably not in the cards right now, would this be a worthwhile alternative?
Tim
The last thread I posted "Mobile Home Demo" I estimated that there will be about 100 cyds of trash that will have to be disposed of. Of course, my first thought was to have 3-30 yd roll offs set for this trash. The cost will be just under $2,000. If I could haul it off myself on my 22' utility trailer, I could save the customer about $600.00 and put a healthy chunk of the remainder in my own pocket instead of giving it to the roll off company.
By putting 2' side boards on my GN, I think I can get about 12 yards of refuse on it. The top of the sideboards would be 2' above the bed. The problem is getting the trash off. Some landfills offer a pull off service, others don't. Mine doesn't.
I am thinking about building an "extractor plate" to set in the front of the trailer bed. This plate would consist of a 3"X3"X1/4" steel tube set across the trailer bed with 4-2' uprights of the same material welded to it and a tongue also welded to the bar. It would need to be heavy enough to withstand the forces involved in the extraction but light enough so that it could be manhandled back to the front of the trailer once the extraction was over. I would mount a 12000lb winch (which I have sitting on the shelf) to the front of the trailer. I would route the cable from the front of the trailer over two pulleys then underneath the trailer bed, over two more pulleys at the rear of the trailer and then over the top of the trailer bed to the tongue on the extractor plate.
I should be able to stand at the rear of the trailer with a radio remote for the winch and pull the extractor plate to the rear of the trailer pushing the trash off the end of the trailer.
I don't think this will work for pulling off high density loads like concrete, brick or fill dirt. It might however work fine on broken up walls, mixed roofing materials, brush etc.
Since a proper dump truck or even a dump trailer is probably not in the cards right now, would this be a worthwhile alternative?
Tim
Refuse extraction unit for a 22' goosneck utility trailer
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