I was wanting to build some ramps for my 955l track loader. I have a lot of drop deck transport companies that will move the machine for me, but they don't have the ramps to load it due to the weight. Its 15 ton. Has anyone built ramp before? Need plans or specs
Do the trailers have a beaver tail? Will you be able to pin them to the trailer and fold them up? Something heavy enough for that thing without a beaver tail would need to be 8' long and would take a 955 just to move them around Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk
I can invision a one piece set of ramps that would set behind the truck on its own pads/supports. I would build them as two seperate ground supporting ramps and then cross brace them to each other making one non tippy unit. If you backed on you could pick the ramp with the loader while setting on the deck, back up, and set the ramp down, securing it at the back of the drop deck. To unload set the ramp first. A reasonable gap between the trailer and ramps would not be a issue with tracks and you will not be breaking lights out of someones trailer. If you build them so they look like a right angle triangle when looking from the side it would not require as heavy as steel as a ramp that would need to carry the weight For an 8' or more span. Weight and room should not be an issue with today's long drop decks.
Yair . . . It is not a very good picture but if you use your imagination I believe old-iron-habit is describing ground bearing ramps such as these . . . . . . . . they were independent units about two feet wide and were easily lifted by two men . . . the ones for fifteen tons obviously could be lighter. Incidentally, from this side of the ocean it seems strange that drop-deck operators have no ramps, what do they usually haul? Cheers.
look at a drop deck or Float/Low loader (lowboy as you would) with ramps suited to or built to 15 ton take into consideration length vs build weight and construction shape ramps on this trailer are built for roughly 15ton maybe a little more heres an alloy example for reference using the same construction knock some up out of steel so that your track width plus 2-3 inches fits between side rails to allow for things to be not quite straight while loading i know you want ramps however if you are feeling creative and have a ripper bar on the rear of your loader you could load it using a couple of timber sleepers to protect the tray and jump it onto the deck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aggptP6zw7Y in a similar fashion to this
Could build a similar set of ramps from doubled channel steel with heavy angle iron set across , place the 'C' of the channels back to back(gives more center web than a single I-beam), stitch weld 2-4" with similar gaps not full weld the length of the channels, this allows flexing without weld cracking, the angle iron sections 18-24" each set at around 12-18" intervals and at around 6 feet overall length or even more channel iron sections 'C' facing up for traction bars, notch the ends of the channels, sew in a plate of 1/2" 10-12" wide plate at each end and angle the trailer deck end as on the Aussie aluminum units. Will be heavy but support the weight and two men could handle.
I think you are only wanting to use these once to move your loader from IL to MO to load on an over the road (long haul) trailer. If thats right the problem is a step deck trailer/single drop is not designed to load that much weight off the ground without a deck level loading dock it will bend the back of the trailer when you try to climb up on it all the weight will be concentrated on the corner of the trailer when the loader breaks over to the level deck of the trailer and unloading also. There is a lot of over the road haulers with double drop mechanical removable gooseneck trailers that is designed to load/unload off the ground like you need. Try putting that type of trailer in your listing for haulers it shouldn't cost that much more for shipping