What if it Snows?

That’s funny!

 

We brought a bunch to Sebring this year! Every tire was fingerprinted. The young guys they have are animals, 25-35 min per trailer. 760 tires per trailer and stacked straight, not woven in. They filled 3/4 of
the tent in like a day and a half.
Fun fact.....there was close to the same amount under the tent in March 2020, when a week before the
event, Covid pulled the plug and we had to load them all back up.

https://twitter.com/MichelinRaceUSA/status/1504611238323625985

 

welp, it’s official.
I’m outta shape.
20 regulation pushups, though it’s been...20..ok 23 years.

 

No... A board puller is an old style of bulk trailer... Predates belt trailers.

A couple of sprocket driven chains ran the length of the trailer, on the chains were a couple of dogs that pulled the boards. The boards were just a tad shorter than the width of the trailer. You loaded from front to back, as you loaded you laid boards across the chains for the product to sit on. If you got a board crooked 3 things could happen...

1: the last couple boards wouldnt fit

2: the boards wouldnt pull straight and would get jammed

3: you unloaded the entire load with a shovel or pitch fork in order to straighten the boards.


#3 is why you only ever got a board crooked once... It's an experience one never forgets.

 

Too much weight downforce, and no slippage.. Whole stack would want to go. Tires are interlaced like a web/net effect.
Same talent required here as the old days of swinging meat. Short hook hind quarter, long hook fore quarter, envelope them and you wind up with a solid tight load. When Westbrook's hooked a load at Bryan Brothers Packing in West Point years ago there was no swing,. It was solid.

 

Took us about 2.5 hours to empty out the rig in my Avatar of cartons of toilet seats. 6 seats to a carton, hand loaded front to back, bottom to top.
Carton say about 24" long, 16 wide, and 8 high. Set a skate wheel conveyer at back, man on each side. Pull down and chunk, bring conveyer fwd as eat into trailer. (This was before global warmings got so hot.) 57-58.

 

If it could get the tires to slide down the sides of the trailer, Would probably scuff the sidewalls of the tires, making too high of a percentage bound for the discount rack.

 

If You modded a trailer to be more functional at moving tires, the trailer would have very limited other uses. Not sure how good you would do on back haul loads.

The tire loads I hauled you could just pay somebody else to do the work through a temp agency/lumper type arrangement. Way more cost effective than modding the trailer