Frozen Walking Floor

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  1. Rold1422

    Rold1422 Bobtail Member

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    I have a load of shredded rubber in a walking floor trailer. The load is frozen and will not walk off. I understand I may have to wait until this load thaws for it to walk off, but is there anything I can do in the future to avoid this happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
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  3. HalpinUout

    HalpinUout Road Train Member

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    When I did hauled trash with a transfer trailer we used salt, pretty sure the walking floors did the same
     
  4. Bad Monkey

    Bad Monkey Medium Load Member

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    When I hauled sawdust that was loaded the night before and froze the floor would still work but the saw dust just sat there. So I had to get in the back with a pitchfork and just start picking at it. When chunks would break off the floor would start taking it to the back and I would just keep picking away. I think the worst one took about 2 hours to unload.
     
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  5. poppapump1332

    poppapump1332 Road Train Member

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    make sure you have all the slats in the forward position before you load that way the first movement is towards the back.
     
  6. baha

    baha Road Train Member

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    Is the floor moving, if you turn on pto an in N without trying to make floor move till you let hyd fluid pump around for some time till fluid gets warm it will make floor move faster when it 1st starts?
     
  7. IH Branded

    IH Branded Medium Load Member

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    Spray floor with diesel before you load
     
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  8. Caterpillar Cowboy

    Caterpillar Cowboy Heavy Load Member

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    Diesel fixes everything in the cold!
     
  9. Jazz1

    Jazz1 Road Train Member

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    That will get your load refused if you are hauling chips,,,now you are proud owner of 90k lbs of wood chips. Mills check for diesel
     
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