Home-Built Hydraulic Dump Trailer

Home-Built Hydraulic Dump Trailer ATV'S ATV'S 28-4-32 "My home-built dump trailer lets me haul my ATV - or anything else weighing up to 1,000 lbs. - and dump hydraulically," says Cecil Bearden, Piedmont, Okla. The trailer is made from channel iron and steel tubing and measures 4 1/2 ft. wide by 8 ft. long. The box, which is fitted with removeable sides and a pair of fold-out aluminum ramps, rides on a pair of high speed tandem axles equipped with ATV tires. The box is raised and lowered by a hydraulic cylinder that's operated by a hand-operated jack. The trailer's tongue is made from 2-in. sq. tubing and fits into a receiver hitch welded onto the front of the box. The tongue can be equipped with either a ball coupler (for pulling the trailer behind an ATV or pickup) or clevis hitch (for pulling behind a 4-wheeler). To switch from coupler to clevis or visa versa, Bearden simply pulls a pin. To pull the trailer behind a pickup, he flips the tongue over. "It lets me haul my ATV out to the field so if I'm alone and a tractor breaks down, I can drive back home and get another tractor instead of having to walk. I've also used it to haul bales to my sheep pen where I dump the bales in for feed. The cylinder that raises the box is the header cylinder off an old Massey combine. I paid about $35 apiece for the wheels. All together I spent about $1,500 to build it. Commercial dump trailers sell for about $4,700." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Cecil Bearden, 4414 Ash St. N.E., Piedmont, Okla. 73078 (ph 405 373-1929 or 405 641-8547; email: cbear81438@aol.com).

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