Hi guys, I have attached a bad photo of a float i just purchased. I will get some better pics tomorrow. I have some questions. How do i estimate the capacity of the unit. All tags are missing. No idea what the manufacturer is. Also, is it odd to be only 8' wide? I will have to use the swing out extensions to haul my excavator, but i thought all trailers were 8'6" wide standard. I dollied it home with a farm tractor, but for some reason, i didn't need air to release the brakes. My driver said it is because it has something called pancake brakes, which is jiberish to me. Thoughts? That's all for now, but i will have some more later. I will get the tire specs which should give some idea of what she is rated for. Thanks, Ken
Well first where is the title?It will have info.on it.Older trailers were 8ft.Well there are no parking brakes on it.Parking brakes need air are a special bolt to release them.Pan Cake means the rubber diaphragm in side the brake chambers.We called the Biscuits.But they don't taste as good as home made biscuits.
good sprayer toter
The fact that the trailer is 8 feet wide says it's "old". Being it is "old", it probably has no maxi-brakes on it. Without maxi-brakes, the service brakes will set up when the parking brake is applied, but as the air leaks down over time, the brakes release. A maxi-brake requires air to release the brakes, otherwise the trailer isn't moving unless you release them manually with the bolt that's usually attached to the maxi-brake chamber. There may be a serial number welded into the frame somwhere in the front deck area. It kinda looks like a Load King, but hard to tell from the picture. Good luck with it.
Capacity will be limited by what the laws in your area allow. In our are which has to comply with federal bridge law. You are allowed 34,000 on a set of tandems, and that trailer looks long enough to allow the bridge of 34,000 on each set of tandems. So you would be allowed 34,000 on the truck tandems and 34,000 on the trailer tandems, minus the weight of the tandems with the trailer hooked up and the weight of the trailer on its axles leaves you the legal capacity of the trailer. Normally a trailer like that would be labeled a 35 ton trailer, but as you can see legally you cannot carry that much depending on the laws of your area.
Cool, thanks guys.
Bingo, what you have there is a spray rig trailer. It's 8 ft wide for a reason, so a spray rig can strattle the trailer and sit in the wells on the outside. like this one here...