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What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

Buffalobwana

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I had to make a new hood hold open latch on the light bar over the fairlead. Pics when it’s 100% done.
 
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No, you clearly hit it with the drivers side tires. All of them.

Dont be so hard on yourself! Looks like you did a good job to me! Also looks a bit intentional :)
 

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I had a guy tell me that he welded a piece a 1/4” plate on the bottom of his bed to keep from loosing chunks of his tires when it made contact like this. Sounds like a good idea. I guess a 12” wide piece of 1/4” flat maybe 16” long or so for each tire is cheap insurance if you like to go wheelin, or go missin trailers!
 

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I had a guy tell me that he welded a piece a 1/4” plate on the bottom of his bed to keep from loosing chunks of his tires when it made contact like this. Sounds like a good idea. I guess a 12” wide piece of 1/4” flat maybe 16” long or so for each tire is cheap insurance if you like to go wheelin, or go missin trailers!
I have the same problem i had to cut some of the cross suport out after i ripped it off the bed. My plans is to use 6" channel and raise the bed.

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I have the same problem i had to cut some of the cross suport out after i ripped it off the bed. My plans is to use 6" channel and raise the bed.

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What kind of truck do you have. Post some pics of this crane truck with 53’s!
 

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Turned 2-1/2 ton of scrap into #60 of new steel, and 12 ton of gravel today. $38 leftover for fuel...WIN!IMG_4328.jpgIMG_4331.jpg
 

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That’s a lot of gravel too! 24,000 lbs of rocks. It’s amazing how little just 5 tons of gravel is. I have a small 4x8 dump trailer that I built about 10 years ago. It holds about 3 yards if it’s level (32” tall walls). That’s a little over 4 tons of sand/gravel mix. That’s just a 4x8 trailer! (It’s on an old water buffalo chassis, with heavy springs)

I built it specifically because it’s about the maximum size that my tractor could pull up out of the canyon.

Now that hat I have a 5 ton, I might want to rethink the size of my trailers, and the size of my projects. :)
 

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Ha! You Got me!

Thats awesome. Can you share what cylinder you used to convert yours? I know there are some companies that offer packages, but I’m also aware of plenty of other options. What direction did you take?
 
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