Work pics

Yeah sorry I guess I should have been clear on what type of tipper I mean... Yes permanent ones I don't see being a danger as they are in a fix location and bolted down... Where as the ones in landfills are portable and you never know if the ground "happens" to be soft in one spot and then the whole thing goes over... I am going over hear-say and have no data as to how many accidents happen.. Who knows the avg can be really low on landfill tippers for all I know.. I just heard they were illegal to use here in landfills which is why everything is walking floor.. The only reason I don't dispute the landfill tipper thing is (at least Ontario & Quebec trucks) are all walking floors units.. I don't see any tipper trailers traveling our roads anymore.. There was a time when all the trucks went to the U.S and all you seen mostly was tipper trailers.. So now that most garbage stays in Ontario there must be a reason everyone is using walking floors and not tipper trailers..

It'sNeverSafe - You are 100% right I don't see the difference as far as safety goes between tippers and end dumps.. In fact I would be willing to say tippers are probably more safe then end dumps because tippers are using bigger cylinders, bigger platform (not just tires on ground) and they doing move forward like a end dump... I (knock on wood) have never flipped a dump trailer yet we have had about 3-4 of them go over for various reasons (ground giving out, guy getting stuck and getting pulled out with box in air [stupid moron], uneven ground and material getting stuck on nose of trailer)... They tend to be unstable and you gotta watch the wind as well... I think that is why conveyor systems are becoming popular especially for highway work..

 

Not so fast. I have 3 pictures somewhere of chip dumper failures. 1 pivot fail and 2 ram fails. In all 3 cases, the tractor and trains were toast. Here's how the bulk wood units work: This is near Castlgar BC.



Final note. In the winter, we would leave the trailer about 2-3 feet from the dumper bumper so that when it hit 45 degrees, the whole unit would slide back and 'hard bump' thus (hopefully) knocking out the stuff frozen to the sides and bottom. I gotta go. I'll tell ya'll later about MY frozen bark trailer fail on the dumper.

Cheers

 

Back - So here's what happened to me - I had an old homemade bark trailer. It was an old, retired hiway trailer. Spring ride. Barn doors. Converted to haul bark/hog fuel. Still had a nose cone and some round vent holes cut near the front. I loaded it one Feb night when the temp was - 400 degrees. Mix of fresh bark and hog with sawdust on the floor OVER the diesel and salt soaked hard wood. Got to the bark dumper 6 hours later. Despite best attempts at prevention, the load was one long frozen brick of bark and hog. Old fashioned dumper where you disconnected the tractor and pulled ahead so the tractor was off the dumper, but just, so you didn't need to drop the trailer legs. I opened the doors, then backed to about 3 feet from the bumper, pulled the tractor ahead, then powered up the dumper. BANG. It slid back. Nothing. Up up and away. Still nothing. Just shy of 'all the way up' I got nervous and slowed the dumper and was getting ready to bring it back down when CREAK GROAN CRASH ! The bark mix came out as a frozen brick. Next came the side walls and the nose cone. When I got the dumper down I had one very clean, shiny spring ride flat bed trailer sitting on the back of my tractor. Next I picked up the direct line to the power plant. It went something like this:

" Power plant "
" I gotta problem with the bark dumper. Better send the grapple. "
" Frozen load ? "
" That plus the trailer followed the load in "
" * sigh * "

 

Seen as no one was injured that's an awesome story. Thanks

 

UR Welcome. Rule #1 around those old dumpers - 'Stay away from the dumper !!' - - No other rules req'd !

 

kinda like the old van trailers full of spuds from Maine
broken in half on the Cross Bronk

 

Or on the old # 9 Air Line !! Been there too ...... !!!

 

So how is the truck secured to this dumper system???? So I guess this means dumpers probably don't have much stuff in the cabs??

 

Secured by gravity, Bro .............. and yeah, ya wanna tie everything down. We've all forgot the coffee cups, the lunch cans, the paperwork, etc etc ..... and we've all cursed the wet bunks, or the lunch spread on the bunk like a grenade at a picnic, and the paperwork ..... man the paperwork ..... I actually once left a chip sample bag in the cab by accident WITHOUT zippy tying it off ..... 6 months later I was still finding chips bunkin' in with me .............

 

Loaded a building at Foremost in Stettler. Brought back to our yard to go out next week.
12'8 wide 5.13 high.