Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

When you finally do come and visit we'll go play with the forklift and see if they will pin in to yours...but your neck won't work

 

I'm a sissy. I haven't been around too many beams. They look like an ### load of work. The pontoons look like you are would be able to do quite a few deck loads without having to insert the deck. Did you and your brother come up with that idea? Also does a beam save that much weight?

 

Don't your inserts pin differently?

 

A beam saves some weight but is much better for height and stability on certain loads. Pontoons have been around for a while, some loads they're worth having most they aren't.

 

I would think they would have less stability. But, again I've only been around a handful and have never loaded or pulled one

 

Put a bigger (or any really) RT or wheel loader on a deck then put the same one on a beam and you'll see.

 

That makes sense it will lower the CG

 

It also takes the Giant bouncy tires out of the equation.

 

Those big wheel loaders, and haul truck definitely move and bounce going down the road. Kinda reminds me of pulling liquid.

 

It's horses for courses...I was being a smart ###
Rails are more work, and if your trips aren't of sufficient length to justify the extra then it's probably not the way to go.
I had nothing to do with the design of pontoons, they were around long before me. This 102" set are from Aspen, bought them off a buddy that was selling his trailer a few years back. The 10' set is because for the odd vessel they would be nice, and he salvaged enough T100 over a year or so to build them for free.

I'm waaaay lighter with rail than deck. With 35' of deck I tare in at 78,000, compared to 68,000 with 37' of rail...that's why I said what I did about cantilevers (drop sides) in the other thread...

This is a big reason why a lot of loads are mo stable on a rail...

R/T cranes ride like a race car on a rail, they scare the crap out of me on a deck.