Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

Ok going back to this

I needed to drop the 4th axle last night again. When you guys talk about the 2nd pin, do you mean the one in the front or rear?

In order to get the shims in, I remove the rear pin and that drops the 4th axle to the ground. When I was packing up, I didn't put them back in at first and I noticed a big gap and the 4th axle was dragging. So I went to put them in and I could only get one side in. The other side wouldn't go in, no matter how I played with the air.

I could see a tiny gap where the shims go that prevented it from closing to the point where I could get that rear pin in again.

I haven't met up with the normal driver to talk to him, it's too hard to understand him on the phone for a technical discussion.

 

Ok I need some clarification, when you say "drop" I think remove I'm guessing you just meant drop it to change shims. To "drop" the axle I'm assuming your deflating the 4th axle air bags somehow. Ok looking at that picture the pin on the left or toward the rear of the trailer doesn't belong, he put it there to keep the axle from gapping open when you go over a hump and letting the shims drop out. If you reinflate the rear bags it should raise up and push tight against the shims or the back of the trailer if there are no shims present. You might have more shims in then he usually runs I'm not sure.

 

Ok I figured out our miscommunication issue. We don't flip the 4th axle up when we don't use it. We let out all the air from everything, then we put a chain around both our axles so that way when we air up the trailer, the 4th axle is raised off the ground. We are manually making it a lift axle.

The left or rear pins prevents the 4th axle from falling to the ground when the trailer airs up. So it holds it level basically so that the chain that has the axle tied up, remains in the air off the ground.

 

That makes sense, that's why that pins in there.

 

All stacked & racked, heading for Santa Paula, CA to load a Komatsu D475-5SD (SD stands for Super Dozer). No I can't haul the whole thing...I've never seen one, so I don't even know how much of it I'm taking yet, other than 100,000lbs of it.
@truckdad is that anywhere near you?

 

I am stacked up but have a ND - no dozer load or any other kind of load

 

I've never been inside one, so I can't say yes or no. From what I've found while looking at the specs, no.
My mom's boyfriend ran an electric shovel until he retired, but it was a smaller version and he said those ones do not.

 

So ya meeting me in Vegas Saturday night for beers then?

 

Maybe... My Washington state sister has asked me to come over to Northern Cali and meet at my mom's

Barstow seems more likely