Dana Linscott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sliding frame lowboys I was referring to in an
earlier post are used for transport of large farm
equipment in the US and are not the types later
posters described. These are very simple to build and
sturdy. They do not have drop tails but rather are
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Thanks for the continuing input to the container load/unload solution.
It's really amazing how many ingenious ideas there are out there.
For obvious reasons I favor solutions that don't require improvements at
each drop site - there could be very many of those in a country where
the
Marc,
The sliding frame lowboys I was referring to in an
earlier post are used for transport of large farm
equipment in the US and are not the types later
posters described. These are very simple to build and
sturdy. They do not have drop tails but rather are
flat.
The axles are mounted on a
Of course it might be simpler to just build earthen
ramps or raised docks(sunken ramps?)at each point of
use if these are relativly fixed and just winch the
unit on and off the truck/trailer. Rollers would help
or even lubed cross beams like the Egyptians are
rumored to have used to transport
I have also seen slip axle lowboy trailers which allow
a load to be winched on to the trailer bed at a low
angle and then the axle subframe is pushed back under
the trailer bed by the truck backing up and the two
are pinned together for transport.
Most often that is a beaver tail trailer where
