Roll off truck?

[Fivepoints]

How do you restack the bins after you have dumped them with a roll off or hooklift? I could do it with our crane but I don't want to have to set it up every time.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Hooklift just lifts the small can and slides it into the back of the big can, close the doors and drive around to the front and lift the big can. (Can put the loader in the small can first and strap/chain it in place.)

The trailers with multi can shippments like the link I followed earlier in this thread appear to be loaded by crane/forklift for compact shipping. They also are made of pretty lightweight material. Some may want that, others not.

I first saw my hooklift in youtube vids for a dumpster company franchised under the name, "Bin There Dump That." They have mounted nearly 100 on Ford 550s a few on Ram 5500 and an International 7 or 8 class truck.

Stellar Lift is the hooklift company, mine was mounted by E. R. Bacon company out of Sacramento CA. They did over the top quality work. Cans were made by Stockton Tri Industries who did too notch work as well.

 

[colb]

Not sure how they do it but there is a picture of 3 cans stacked inside each other on the u dump website:

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You can't load them like that in everyday life. It's just for shipping. I asked...

 

[colb]

They also are made of pretty lightweight material. Some may want that, others not.

It is lighter duty than the bins I see going to the local construction landfill on dump rolloff trucks. For instance, the rails underneath are just 1/4-1/2" thick, whereas the heavy duty ones are like 2 inches thick. Since I'm a 1-man operation much of the time, I know how to take care of it, and I want to. That means my weight capacity is higher. I don't chuck large logs into my bin. I place them into it. I'm rated for a 10k lbs. trail load, so the u dump is ideal for me. Although I can stash a full tree in it, I usually stash reduction prune brush, where I just need volume. The next size up is a grapple truck sub for $250, so there is no reason for me to get something larger. I just want to haul small to mid-sized loads.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Glad it's working well for you Colb.

MaxxD trailers makes a nice quality trailer. They had a roll off that use to sport the option of having it shipped with three lighter bins. Now I see their webpage shows that type of trailer with a single bin featured. And that bin specs with 10 guage sides and floor. I'm sure that other bins could be sent separately.

Seems like the original post is headed for a lot bigger if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Lumberjack]

Hey guy. Can you take a picture of the d rings welded to your bin? I need to weld on mine but I see there’s some more metal in between.

Here’s how I did it.

 

[colb]

Glad it's working well for you Colb.

MaxxD trailers makes a nice quality trailer. They had a roll off that use to sport the option of having it shipped with three lighter bins. Now I see their webpage shows that type of trailer with a single bin featured. And that bin specs with 10 guage sides and floor. I'm sure that other bins could be sent separately.

Seems like the original post is headed for a lot bigger if I'm not mistaken.

If I were towing a 25k-size bin, the mini skid would work if it was going into the rolled off bin to stack debris. Making wood go up very high with a grapple is not necessary. It only needs to be above the ground in order to move it.

 

[Gorman]

Thanks fellas.

 

[Fivepoints]

Yeah I was looking for a tandem axle truck that would be able to haul at least 20 ft bins. Our grapple truck has a 20 ft bed on it so I know how much volume it can hold. It's got 6 ft tall sides at the back and tapers to 4 ft up front. The problem with it is the weight of logs can get it overloaded. I don't want a larger grapple truck as I really don't want to take a tandem axle truck into backyards to load, etc. I'm not planning on stacking brush in them. I mainly want them to move logs and chips. One big reason for me being interested in roll off trucks is being able to put some bins in place before we actually are there doing the job due to not being able to get enough CDL drivers. On big reason I was looking at Roll off vs hooklift is cost. There's lots of used roll off truck for sale and bins but i very rarely see anything hooklift. I'm thinking a truck in the 60K gvwr range would serve us pretty well. I might also rent bins to some of the other tree services in our area as well.