2018 - Volume #42, Issue #3, Page #11
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Side Dump Trailer Equipped With Two Steering Axles
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The 4 by 10-ft. trailer handles loads of up to 2,500 lbs. and empties out in just a few seconds. A pendant-operated hydraulic cylinder, powered by a self-contained electro/hydraulic motor and pump, acts on a scissors lift to tilt the deck. Any small tractor or 4-wheeler can be used to pull the trailer.
“It was designed for use in greenhouses and nurseries where there’s often very little room to turn around. It’s very difficult to back up a trailer with two steering axles, so we designed it to side dump,” says Ray King, King’s Industries, LLC, Hubbard, Oregon. “To unload the trailer, you just pull a couple of pins and drop one side of the box down, and then use the cylinder to tilt it. If you want you can fold the back side of the box down, too.”
King says nurseries use the trailer when digging out and replacing older plants, and to change out the soil in potted plants. But not all of his customers are in the nursery or greenhouse business. “One customer used his trailer to fill in a ditch with gravel. He tilted the deck at a slight angle, then drove alongside the ditch and used a rake to pull the material down,” says King.
Sells for $6,800.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, King’s Industries, LLC, 14377 Whiskey Hill Rd., Hubbard, Oregon 97032 (ph 503 981-7517).
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