How'd it go today?

[WoodCutr]

I heard 10% of the weight should be on the tongue

10% is a general rule, I always load till I see the suspension squat a few inches, its a feel/eye game

gooseneck's can take a lot more tongue weight, but don't have to be loaded as far forward to maintain stability because the weight of the trailer is already really far forward empty, and the trailers are inherently longer which just helps stability

at what weight do you have to have trailer air brakes? in germany everything above 3,5 t needs air brakes.

no legal weight for air brakes here, over around 33K pounds most trucks have air brakes but theres no law for it, trailers are state dependent weather they even need brakes, where I live any trailer under 1500 pounds doesn't need brakes, 1500-3000 pounds needs brakes on one axle, all trailers over 3000 have to have brakes on every axle, some bigger trailers meant for pickup trucks have electric over hydraulic brakes, and almost all the big trailers over 15 or 20 ton capacity are air drum brakes just like a semi truck although they can still be electric

 

[flushcut]

I think I’m good to tow 38,000 with the 5500. That’s just a lot, 7000 pound chipper is all it will ever see. I’ve had it stuffed with logs many times and many tons lol.

 

[WoodCutr]

this guy is pissing me off, we had a deal to meet at my place and make this trade today or tomorrow, and I've asked multiple times when he plans to show up, dude isn't even reading his messages

people, do NOT make plans with someone for a set timeframe, then completely ignore them despite being asked what time you're showing up multiple times, its not that hard to just reply "tomorrow at noon" or "sorry something came up, next weekend?"

 

[cory]

smh

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Happens all the time. Try to buy something on a local swap page or FB marketplace

 

[WoodCutr]

oh yeah, and I've been saving a decent size pile of cedar logs for a buddy who makes fence rails out of them

we had a deal on a job I did almost 6 months ago, I didn't charge to pay the $60/ton at the landfill for these logs because he had been begging me for cedar logs this size for close to a year, I finally get them and its been "next week" since then, he's about to get a nice video of me running them through the chipper because I'm sick of him B.Sing me on this scheduling stuff, doesn't help when he calls saying he is headed this way on a certain day and I schedule time off to load them for him, then he no shows

maybe its my lack of patience with the world, but I'm getting more and more "be here when you say you will, or GFYS and never call me again"
had a grapple truck job 2 years ago, first guy said he'd be there, day of the job I call and he says "sorry truck broke yesterday", like seriously asshole, couldn't have called me yesterday instead of waiting on me to call you after youre supposed to be here?
same exact job, different grapple truck guy, same story and he put us past our contract deadline by a few days

back to the first guy on a job last year, same story about the broken truck, then he no showed on his own job where we helped him out, he told me it'd be a 2 hour job with his grapple truck there, it was over 2 hours before the customer even moved his car out of our way, plus we had to manually stack brush because there was nothing to move it for us, he bitched about me billing for our time then cussed me out for telling him he didn't hold his end up


TL : DR, people suck, the end!