Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

I’ve seen some pictures that make those trailers look pretty interesting.

 

Nah, Sunday I would have been just leaving the yard with the empty trailer.

There are a handful of Us and to the untrained eye, we all look the same. I think Geo may have been coming that way with a 11 axle faymonville.

 

Crazy what a bit of shim does!

 

I met 2 or 3 big loads similiar to that one pulled by KW's & looked similiar to yours. I wondered if one of them was you.

 

Spent the last 2 days bobtailing from Wisconsin to Wyoming to repower this load. Guy just had his motor built and something broke.
14'6" H x 14'3 W 68,000LBS milling machine.

Heading to Windsor, ON.

 

It’s always nice for me to see what a real big load looks like

 

Can someone explain this in simple terms? That has scrambled my brain trying to figure out how, lol.

 

To make a long trailer sit flat with a lot of weight you have to add a lot of arch before loading. So you add shims into the deck at the top and it makes the deck bend upwards. When you set the load on it the deck will flatten back out.

Here's a less extreme example from my old trailer.

Before shims:


After shims:


After loading:



Here's the shims on top of the deck:

 

The last two weeks or so we’ve been moving a ton of big stuff out of Tulsa. So they were all of our guys. I like to work alone most of the time. When they do moves like that, it stresses me out. Lol

 

Two of us on our way to Calvert Alabama.