Wish I had seen these before I bought mine. I love how the box is made like a dump truck, much lighter than the ones with cross members everywhere, like mine.
The wheel wells are junk and every one I have seen around town has the wheel wells sagging. It then creates cracks everywhere at the end corners and center as the saggy metal flops up and down as you drive. I had to weld all the cracks and added a 1x1 square tube center support off the shackle/hanger mount up to a plate welded to the bottom of the wheel well, then it was 100% fixed. In the end if they are going to keep using less than 1/8th" wheel wells they need to add center supports. Oh, the ramps barely hold an 8k lb excavator, I plan to add tubing on the underside of the ramps where the edges are bent under like c channel. Those bent under edges flared out so I had to use a sledge hammer to bend the "c channel they formed" back under it straight so it wasn't too wide and would fit in the ramp slide-in mounts. The ramps are straight and not sagging but they flared out at least 1/2". Luckily I have only had to rent an excavator 3 times. Otherwise it's been great.
Hey Derek - Now that it's been about 1 year since purchasing and using your Southland dump trailer, do you still like it? Anything you don't like about it? I'm likely purchasing the same dump trailer you have, but there are very little to no user reviews out there on them. It kind of has me hesitant on making the purchase. Thanks!
I have had zero problems with my trailer that said, I think a lot of people that have had problems have abuse them or use them incorrectly. We use ours almost daily with zero problems.
Hey buddy are you trying to buy one of those but I don't know if it doesn't work with a heavy load I look at too many videos and All the videos are empties or we just branches And I tried to find reviews and I don't find anyone
@@jonesmachineco I work there and we have been even rolling out even heavier duty dump trailers biggest I have worked on have two 8k axles so making it a 16k dump trailer😁
