Been looking around for a dump trailer, and this one came up yesterday on Craigslist. So we took a ride this morning to check it out.
Well, as you can see, it came home with us.
It's not for road use, suppose short distances, and pretty slow, but I'm not in need of that. We've got some projects around here, one in particular, is cleaning up around the pond. Two sides we need to dig out, as the bank is slowly "growing" inward.
Figure it won't be so hard on the lawn, hauling the waist out this way. And for gathering firewood, it'll work great for that.
It's home made, has electric over hydraulic, with two cylinders for the lifting duty's. Few things I want to do with it. The black cover you see on the front, covers the battery, and hydraulics. So to charge the battery, you have to remove the cover every time. I'm figuring I'll either install battery lugs on the outside for charging. Or pick up a battery tender, and install under the cover, haven't decided yet...
(Side note) the box goes nearly straight up, but didn't raise it that high in the pictures without it hooked to something)
Saturday I picked up the "digging" machine, to go with the "hauling" trailer. Well, didn't "pick it up", it's being delivered this week sometime. There'll be more on that later.
Nancy says the older I get, the worst I get.
Suppose that can be taken many ways.
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Well, as you can see, it came home with us.

It's not for road use, suppose short distances, and pretty slow, but I'm not in need of that. We've got some projects around here, one in particular, is cleaning up around the pond. Two sides we need to dig out, as the bank is slowly "growing" inward.
Figure it won't be so hard on the lawn, hauling the waist out this way. And for gathering firewood, it'll work great for that.
It's home made, has electric over hydraulic, with two cylinders for the lifting duty's. Few things I want to do with it. The black cover you see on the front, covers the battery, and hydraulics. So to charge the battery, you have to remove the cover every time. I'm figuring I'll either install battery lugs on the outside for charging. Or pick up a battery tender, and install under the cover, haven't decided yet...
(Side note) the box goes nearly straight up, but didn't raise it that high in the pictures without it hooked to something)
Saturday I picked up the "digging" machine, to go with the "hauling" trailer. Well, didn't "pick it up", it's being delivered this week sometime. There'll be more on that later.



dump1 (6).JPGdump1 (7).JPGdump1 (2).JPGdump1 (4).JPGdump1 (5).JPG
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