I'm in process of buying new RGN and this video is very helpful. I started with 45 ton tandem RGN then added a flip axle, then bought a single axle jeep and now I'm planning to buy a 2-3-2 combination. Keep up the good work sir.
I was wondering how this process worked. Thank you very much for doing this video! I learned a lot from it. You’re very professional. Keep up the great work!
I've worked with both Tom Pistachio's (Cozad) trailers and Murray trailers. They are quite light because of their axle configurations. Unfortunately, they do not permit well as you go east. I was supposed to go to Guam for Cozad to oversee a natural gas vessel move across the island back in about 2013. Body lice are bad in Guam so I had already had all the hair removed from my body. Then Senator John McCain proposed a 30 million dollar cut to the US military budget on Guam and Guam responded by cancelling the project permits and I was left with no hair and no severance money. I mostly ran 13 axle/ 50 wheel traffic on Seibert, Liddell, and Fontaine trailers. I often worked with a pilot car driver who used to be a lady bull-hauler. One day we stopped for lunch and the waitress was a bit disrespectful to pilot car lady. She super-glued the plate, the silver ware, the glass, and THE TIP to the table. We had a big forklift that could stack both jeep and stinger on the main deck.
Traded my old Diamond years ago much the same set up as your cozad. Used to detach my short neck same as you demonstrated, Old timer explained the purpose of the extended ramp, just pull your pin and let the short neck fall. Kinda terrifying the first time but it does work. Ive always ran mechanicals, Figured less weight more money. My new trailer uses airbags in the hat, saves even more weight. Have a great day.
Great video, a lot of us heavy haul guys don't want to give out the tricks of the trade. Keep up the training, I have never used a mechanical neck, I know how they work, but my 24 years of heavy haul has been with ground bearing and non-ground bearing RGN. Also have done a lot of scissor neck and flip tail as well. Great job.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I’m all about sharing, we all gotta learn from somewhere... if my tips help someone, then great! Thanks for watching, take care!
I always carry a highlife jack for when I have to lift neck usually if blocks are slick and fall out dropping neck. Sometimes I bungee cord them in place. There are a few tricks to learn when pulling a cozad style trailer. Many guys will pull one once hate it because they don't know the tricks. It's so nice to be so much lighter then other trailers.
That’s a good idea. I do have a bottle jack that I have had to use on RGNs if the block slips and left the neck drop too low to reconnect. I’m still learning about this Cozad, Thanks for watching, and thanks for sharing your tip about the jack. 👍
I have looped a chain through holes in the neck to keep the blocks from spitting out, also pour methyl hydrate on the blocks and ramps if there is any ice or snow.
Kurt Peters I use a bungee cord around block hooked to holes, one on each side. I do it all winter. I also hit it with hammer and carry a draw knife and taper block. I keep my eye out for hardwood 3x3 or 4x4. I just moved 8 loads 200 miles to Salt Lake a week ago. Guy called today to move 2 excavators to Ely NV but I don't really want to I'm end dumping now. Fun and easier.
I saw one of these broken down in Sterling ND, they had hit an overpass with a big coil of pipe, must have broken the trailer, they had a welder out for 2 weeks it seemed patching it back together. He did an awesome job
@@GoodDayFarm, will be cool to see. I guess you did show part of the process but I commented before I watched the entire clip...and wasn’t even sure my comment was accepted. Living in a rural area with sketchy reception makes it a hit and miss proposition. I’d love to see how the Studio is set up, and what you’ve got under the hood.
Our trail king trailers don't have jeeps like that with detachable necks. We would have to flip the neck of the trailer itself over and then deck the jeep and then hook the trailer up. I'm pretty sure they don't have stands either which means if you are unloading by crane, you have to get the crane to hold onto the neck of the trailer for you while you deck the jeep.
Yep, most other brands are a much bigger process to self deck…. But you can do it. Hard to explain, if I even get under a trail king or something similar, I’ll do a video on that to, I’ve done it a few times, but it’s only if you’re in a real pinch with no crane or forklift to deck your hero for you.
I’m not a driver but a heavy haul trailer operator here. Looks like a slick setup, and was curious to see how you were going to deck that Jeep haha. I’ve seen setups in Canada on 10 axles that you can deck and detach the jeep/neck without a secondary removable neck. They have a horsecock(5thwhl pin) hole on the front of the trailer that allows you to winch up and insert the pin for hook up! Pretty fucking neat 😂
@@GoodDayFarm its a pintle hitch on the back of the detachable neck. You unhook and drop the jeep detach the neck from the float. Hook the pintle up to front of the jeep back it on the deck and then hook the neck back pn the float
Lol I always wondered how you mechanical guys did that lol. Looks like it can be a pain in the but. I luv the power towers I run one and my jeep neck is hydraulic. But the main neck is mechanical
Murray and Aspen both have gave the driver leave the long neck on the back of the jeep and use the short neck on the lowbed when stacked. I'm guessing Rackley as well.
I would say, most drivers, 99% of the time, are going to deck up either with a forklift or crane. Also, decking this way is pretty much only going to work with a set like this, where the necks a swap able…. You can do it with the other style, but is more difficult. Thanks for watching!
Great video man. I wanna offer you a suggestion that might help you out a lil. I pull a trail king 2+3+2 and I installed a air bag override on my truck to raise my neck up the extra length I needed for clearance, might work out for you so that you dnt have to do the chain deal.
So much mucking around. The Australian setup is much easier. Unhook the dolly off the float, back dolly up onto float, unhook truck, hook onto float and go
Thanks for the video I want to make a Jeep for a tag along trailer to pull behind my coach you can see my trailer on my channel thanks for sharing your videos
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I can load about 130k in WA and be legal on all my axles, gives me a gross of around 220k But as I go east, I can load a little more. The most I have had on it was 140k, but it could handle a lot more. Trailer is rated for 150k. If I wasn’t worried about being legal, I’d be totally comfortable putting 180k on it. That trailer is overbuilt!
5:35 I feel so sorry for you. I ran a lowboy for years and that is all B.S. Screw all that. The trailer manufacturer should have put a stinger on all of the necks!!!!!!! There are times you're breaking apart in roadways, in the rain, on slopes... don't have time for this dangerous unnecessary chaining and pulling crap!!!!!
This is only for decking the jeep. I wouldn’t do this in a road. And I only do it I need need to get under length for an unladen permit... nit all states make you deck.
It’s not that often I have to deck the jeep, and I always have the option to use an on-site crane or forklift. This method is only for when necessary. 👍
