Pneumatic Trailer - Steel or Aluminum

Yeah, ya have a good point. We never did that simply because our trailers are used for hauling pebble lime as well. We use stainless steel hoses for that, so it just works a little better for us

 

My company generally is required to haul a 49 or 50 thousand payload. Do not know for sure, but thinking a steel trailer might not could handle this unless it stayed in Texas, had the overweight permit and was careful with the axle limits.

 

For sand I'd use steel, for cement I'd use aluminum. You can use steel piping for longevity, also someone mentioned earlier in the thread about the straight pipe below the axles and that's an excellent point.

 

Thousands and thousands of frac sand trucks running in west and south Texas. You will have to look long and hard to find a steel. Think we are on to something?? The newer sand trailers have arched axles for the back pipe/hose.

 

I've only run pneumatics for cement, I imagine sand is a bit of a different animal. If the industry is running aluminum the question has been answered.

 

Yea there's really not much wear in the trailer itself, most of the wear is in the piping and t's. I use schedule 80 steel piping and t's and it still wears out fairly quick.

 

We use schedule 80 for anything pneumatic on our customer's trailers. When I am installing pipes or hoses on a pneumatic, I mount a pipe under the axles and use about 4' of product hose with hose ends to connect between the last tee and the pipe. That allows the operator to have the choice which to use without limiting him. I have found several full length pipe configurations don't meet up correctly at the end of the rear tee. This usually is remedy by the owner by having to loosen one ubolt to make it line up. My method eleminates that problem and prevents pipe wear if it is out of line. We also make sure to rotate pipes 180* after so many loads to wear in a different spot and make the pipe last longer. We avoid aluminum tees and hose ends.

 

Gallegos Trailers outa Mexico are steel I believe.

 

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