Flip axle with stinger

If your talking about mounting the stinger to the neck don't pay a premium from the manufacture. Find a good machine shop and have them build you a set of pad eyes on the neck rails for both ends of the stinger. You will need a fairly long neck for this and to my understanding as long as the spreader is pinned not chained to the neck it's not a divisible load.

 

Thanks a lot for your responce @haulhand, will do...

 

That's how the new beam trailer my company have me is set up. And just as haulhand said, aslong as it is pinned on there and not chained it's not a divisible load

 

Thanks a lot skootter,,, beautifull set up...

 

I did help load an item on a trailer that had two flipable rear axles on a tandem trailer (four axles total, two that flipped). Never thought that they would have made that.

 

I didn't think about it until yesterday but my super trailer is that way. It's a 60 ton "east coast", it's a tandem with a stinger and another set of tandems that can separate it to two separate axles. So when I have it in a 4 in a row configuration I could flip the rear most axle or both rear axles. You see all kinds of styles if you look around.

 

Yea, company I worked at years ago had a trl. like that. tandem with a tandem flip.. Needed a really big fork lift or exc. to flip the double tandem

 

This thread got me thinking. If you had a flip axle and it is flipped up and you don't have a forklift or excavator, could you hook up a chain to the back of the flip (part most facing front when flipped), tie the other end to a stationary point and slowly drive forward, would that not make it flip down?

 

In order to get the right leverage to get it to flip up you've got to raise the chain above the flip a few feet in order to get it pulling up. I've done it with a good stout 8 foot 4x4. It's a little rough on the landing though.

 

When I used to do 6 axle, my 3rz trailer axle was a flip, as it is a working machine I am hauling I usually did it with whatever machine it was, hooked chain to it and pulled it to over back end of trailer to where it pivots at and then it would come over. But like was said by haulhand, it's a little rough on landing, I've done it a couple times using the truck to flip it down. Had to flip it back up onto trailer a few times with truck also, or would use machine I was unloading to do it as I unloaded. Pull your pins, air up air bags on flip axle so it axle raises up at a angle then pull it up and over onto trailer