How'd it go today?

treesmith said:
Got a link to those connectors? I’ve been thinking of running a line to the back of my Ram and using Anderson connectors on the end.

When I got my Load Trail dump trailer in May 2016, I didn’t charge it for almost a year. The truck kept it charged until the battery began to weaken. Same with my Big Tex. I didn’t charge it for two years. Toward the end of that battery’s life, I had to charge it every night. And at the end, two big loads a day drained it completely. I dumped a load with my newest Big Tex last week and after dumping a load, it still had over 90% battery.
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I do not have a link but Lenco is a brand. I bought all the components at Airgas, a welding supply house if you didn’t know. 00 was the cable gage I used. One thing to keep in mind is that the cables are hot at the rear end of the truck so I made a pvc cover to keep them clean and not exposed.
 
flushcut said:
I do not have a link but Lenco is a brand. I bought all the components at Airgas, a welding supply house if you didn’t know. 00 was the cable gage I used. One thing to keep in mind is that the cables are hot at the rear end of the truck so I made a pvc cover to keep them clean and not exposed.
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Yeah, I considered a cut-off switch at the battery so that the cable is not hot all the time. At least a cut-off somewhere beneath the bed of the truck, short of the end.
 
Nutball said:
I would keep 2 sets of jumper cables handy to reach from the truck battery to the trailer if it died. And of course the battery should be charged every night.
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I have a set that I peeled apart for my trailer, 40ft long or so, grounds through the hitch so I only need the positive lead

this wasn't my trailer in that pic fortunately, although mine did die on us at the mulch yard last week, cold weather doesn't play nice with these
treesmith said:
When I got my Load Trail dump trailer in May 2016, I didn’t charge it for almost a year. The truck kept it charged until the battery began to weaken. Same with my Big Tex. I didn’t charge it for two years. Toward the end of that battery’s life, I had to charge it every night. And at the end, two big loads a day drained it completely. I dumped a load with my newest Big Tex last week and after dumping a load, it still had over 90% battery.
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thats how mines been, 2 years or so on this battery and the only time it's died in the past was dumping a really heavy load and popping the charge fuse, then dumping 3 or 4 more loads in a day, was dumping fine last week till I let go of the button for half a second to swap hands half way up and it stopped, wasn't more than maybe 4000 pounds in the trailer at the time

flushcut said:
Better to run a set of heavy welding leeds from your trucks battery under your truck with twist lock connectors to the hydro pump on the dump. Never a dead battery plus eliminating a battery all together. Works amazingly well.
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I've considered it, but I'm not the only person that pulls this trailer, so I can't do anything that stops a bone stock truck from reliably using it, and for it to only fail once in 2 years is more than reliable enough for me, most places I dump have equipment to help unload at no charge if we need anyways
 
Nutball said:
Just like I can't trust the rental stump grinder teeth to be sharp, I wouldn't trust the rental trailer to be charged.
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its usually charged!

I do go through everything before and after each rental, I would never purposefully rent a defective trailer


now, my mini skid was something everyone wanted to rent, only ever let one person use it, and that was my stump guy, whom I was taking a tree down in his yard and didn't have room in my trailer to take it home, he got to keep it for 2 days rent free, but he ran it for me a lot while I owned it anyways, nobody's ever once asked to rent my excavator, they already know the answer, just like my mini skid, NO


I rented a nifty50 a few months ago, the one the yard told me to grab had a hydraulic leak so they had me snag the one next to it, which had no brakes, luckily for us afterall, rental yards own semi was behind us hauling an offroad scissorlift, car infront of us slammed on the brakes, if the lift had working brakes the semi would have most certainly rear ended us
 
I will note, if my trailer is going to have anything heavier than firewood rounds dropped into it, it comes with me and my machine to load it
took my dump truck to pick up a load of logs for a buddy, his friend AKA "best operator dude in the south" left lots of tooth marks in the floor, dropped 1500+ lb logs from 4-5ft above the floor and at one point tracked his machine into the back of my truck

I even told my buddy that I don't like other people loading my truck, and he'd be responsible for any damage, he said "Don't worry this guy's a great operator"
by the time I got loaded, I had contemplated telling him to get out of his machine and either let me load my truck, or quit loading



I'm pretty much to the point where I'm done working for anyone other than myself, including subcontracting my company to help other crews, and renting trailers, can't trust them to listen to life or death safety info, and you can have a good thing going, work for the same guy for years, and get ghosted the minute someone else does one job for $100 cheaper, not to mention I will drop anything I'm doing to help a buddy, but they won't come out to help me even if I ask months in advance, I've dealt with probably 50 different people like this in the last year
 
WoodCutr said:
you can have a good thing going, work for the same guy for years, and get ghosted the minute someone else does one job for $100 cheaper,
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I've had "good" customers like that. By good I mean multiple repeat jobs. But....yup, one bid that aint the lowball and....ghosted.
 
cory said:
I've had "good" customers like that. By good I mean multiple repeat jobs. But....yup, one bid that aint the lowball and....ghosted.
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I bid a job for a neighbor, 13ft diameter oak stump with exposed roots, measured out to around a 52ft circumference to grind, with concrete in it, he wanted it to look like it was never there (top broke off in a storm, left a 30ft tall spar)

bid ended up being 14 grand, cut down spar, haul to dump, excavate root ball, bring in multiple truck loads of fill and topsoil, then grade, and sod

lost the job to a few "friends" with no insurance, they did a poor job grinding the stump, looks horrible still

worst part is, my bid was within about $200 of another guy, I'm guessing the same people that didn't finish grinding the stump or grading


EDIT: Drove by and saw them working, this 13ft diameter oak was being cut into blocks and fed through a BC1000, by hand
 
Been a long time since I assembled furniture. It's always harder than it should be. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes not. Between me not reading directions, and the Chinese writing them, it turns into a clusterfuck.
 
I've been wanting to do something similar. Either blocks, or perhaps notching rounds, and putting slabs in the notches. The rounds would take up room that could be used to put stuff in, but it might be cool.
 
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