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I'd like to fabricate my own stuff too.
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Did some more work here... Trailer weighs 5620 loaded. tounge weight is 880. 14.9% of trailer weight. Right on! Trailer alone weighs 1420. I added the leaf springs, but that pushed up my axle. Its safer, but gained no benefit in the suspension travel department. I'm ordering a 7k torsion axle in the morning, and re-doing this set-up. Also I have designed some folding full width ramps to install.the machine was a little squarlly loading the other day with snow on the trailer. It needs to be lower with a wider ramps. I'm going to have this completely tuned in before spring. Any ideas/ suggestions are welcomed. Thanks guys!
 
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Nothing better than fine tuning, good luck with it and way to go!

Gonna shoot anymore vids?? I for one would dig it.
 
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I would recommend adding more tie down points. It looks like you have the machine tied down just in the front. Most states require that the equiptment be tied down at 4 points and any part of the machine that moves or swivels have a seperate tiedown. With just that front tie down if you were to be involved in an accident your grinder would definitaly come off that trailer.
 
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I agree with extra tie downs. Ohio is one of the states requirng 4 point tie downs. I can do this easily with 2 loops in the back of the trailer. The Vermeer has hooks right on the frame under the cutter. It will be an inconvient set-up, but would be nice to have for the long trips. My drive to the first job is normally about 20 minutes on state routes, and then from there I'm nomally only 5-15 min between jobs just crusing through neighborhoods. I did not have the machine when I built the trailer, and would have included them if I had all the info at the time of the build. in all reality the only benefit you would gain by having the 4 point is that the trailer would crash along with the grinder, insted of the grinder only.
Side note- I kind of based this trailer on the Rayco design. They only have one pin, but it secures the macine real well, side to side, and up and down, still illegal, with no option for four point. Not to mention the axle rating they use is under the weight of the machine. I can see how they get away with it, but no matter how you load it, the tounge is overloaded or the axle is over loaded. Look at the web site and read the ratings and machine weight. For example-If I pull my machine more to the trruck Im reducing the weight on the axle, but overloading the tounge. IMHO the axle should be able to carry the full weight of the machine reguardless of tounge weight.
 
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Nothing better than fine tuning, good luck with it and way to go!

Gonna shoot anymore vids?? I for one would dig it.

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I'll get some more vids, I'm going to set it up with greenteeth as soon as they come in. The yellow jackets don't cut so well on the higher hp machines, not to mention some are cutting on the flat part of the tooth(side), not good, and most likely holding the macine back.
 
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