Looking for a 12ft tipper trailer and advice.

[V8Druid]

Thought these looked a nice trailer, posted in another tipper trailer thread a while ago…

3-Way Tipper | Trek Trailers Suffolk - Trailers For Every Purpose

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suffolk.trek-trailers.co.uk

remember seeing them .. they looked very tidy - and possibly a lot more rattle free than UK built stuff

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I’ve had a TT2515 (8 x5) with mesh sides for 4 years? Worth more now than what I paid, I bought that size as it was being pulled by transits, but now I wish I’d bought a 10x6 as more versatile and I cut my LM106 up to put the hiab on .
It’s a pain in the ass to tie anything down if you have the sides on. Always feels a long way up with the Micro so tend to use the GD84 for that. Ours mostly gets used for taking materials for concrete slabs to site. The 5 foot width is nice for hammering around country lanes as you know it’s never going to catch on anything and embarrass you.

 

[Giles]

Mines gone really slow on down after tipping, there is a valve in the bottom of the ram i guess like a check valve type

Guess ram off and try unscrew the mesh see if anything in it?

 

[V8Druid]

Mines gone really slow on down after tipping, there is a valve in the bottom of the ram i guess like a check valve type

Guess ram off and try unscrew the mesh see if anything in it?

Flow / orifice restrictor plate BTL,s

 

[LKSF]

Thanks for the advice, took the plunge and got a new one Just got to get a car man enough to tow it when full now

 

[Stroppymonkey]

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Thanks for the advice, took the plunge and got a new one Just got to get a car man enough to tow it when full now

Set of mesh sides then you can fill it up more

 

[Bri963]

Set of mesh sides then you can overload it even more

Put that right for you.

 

[LKSF]

I got a good deal in the end, found two of the best priced dealers and pitched them off each other. I got solid sides too, they just hadn't arrived today when I went to pick it up. I didn't need them either today, I reckon I was well overweight with the load of sodden manure I had in it as it was. Ffs, I couldn't have picked a worse time, it's chucked it down heavily along with shitloads of high wind all day like much of the UK. I was pretty much expecting to get stuck in a field offloading it and wasn't disappointed.

It then went downhill from there too!

 

[Storrsy]

I got a good deal in the end, found two of the best priced dealers and pitched them off each other. I got solid sides too, they just hadn't arrived today when I went to pick it up. I didn't need them either today, I reckon I was well overweight with the load of sodden manure I had in it as it was. Ffs, I couldn't have picked a worse time, it's chucked it down heavily along with shitloads of high wind all day like much of the UK. I was pretty much expecting to get stuck in a field offloading it and wasn't disappointed.

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It then went downhill from there too!

Tbf any 4wd and loaded ifor type trailer is pretty s**t off road as soon as the slightest bit of moisture is introduced. I wonder what is better. A small Iveco 2wd grafter tipper with the load over the driven axles Vs a 4wd with 3 ton hanging dead off the back- I suspect possibly the former...

 

[6feetdown]

I got a good deal in the end, found two of the best priced dealers and pitched them off each other. I got solid sides too, they just hadn't arrived today when I went to pick it up. I didn't need them either today, I reckon I was well overweight with the load of sodden manure I had in it as it was. Ffs, I couldn't have picked a worse time, it's chucked it down heavily along with shitloads of high wind all day like much of the UK. I was pretty much expecting to get stuck in a field offloading it and wasn't disappointed.

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It then went downhill from there too!

Probably had what we had yesterday. Dire !

 

[Smiffy]

Tbf any 4wd and loaded ifor type trailer is pretty s**t off road as soon as the slightest bit of moisture is introduced. I wonder what is better. A small Iveco 2wd grafter tipper with the load over the driven axles Vs a 4wd with 3 ton hanging dead off the back- I suspect possibly the former...

Defo the former. A 7.5t tipper will go way further off road with 2.5t on the back than my pickup towing a trailer with 2.5t on it and my pickup has silly great big mud tyre v block tread on the 7.5t.
And absolutely no chance of reversing a trailer in the mud.

 

[LKSF]

I did briefly consider a tipper truck, but for me it's just not worth the expense of maintenance, Tax, MOT, insurance etc when it'll be stood for most of its time.
If we'd had a Summer like the last two, or even back in June at least it would have got up there, but not after the recent heavy rain.
My 4x4 is off road only so I can play with it when I get the time. They came with two types of rear diffs and mine had the crap one (which went to no LSD) I had it swapped out for the earlier stronger version which I realise now was a mistake maybe, what I should have done is welded the original one up solid. I still have it so plan on doing this - if it ever stops raining. The later LSD in there now is much better, but it still slips if enough torque is applied.
You might recall from my other thread that I have a locking front diff kit for the front, I just haven't had time/weather to fit it yet. With a locking front diff and welded rear diff it'll be pretty much unstoppable as it's only when it goes 2wd that it struggles (one at the front, one at the back). There is that and also improving the bits of land where it does get stuck. The one in the pic is on my land so I can drop a load of hardcore in and make it less steep. It was such a steep incline the hitch bottomed out in the dip which didn't help.

The entrance track to our house and fields is owned by our nobber of a neighbour who has messed them both up with his greed and stupidity before we got here. Just trying to get out of the fields today over his ruined track took several attempts and my lovely new trailer looking like this:

Taking it slowly and surely failed twice. It needed a run up with a bootfull in a higher gear to do it, but I was lucky not to slide into a wall.
It'll powerwash off!

 

[Giles]

Even empty they’re like 1000 kg and become anchors once off road, reversing down hill is fun as well if loaded with no overrun brakes slidey slidey

 

[doobin]

Totally the wrong tool for the job. They are for taking larger loads of spoil on the road, thats all. Pretty useless for anything else.

I always find it more effective to run a pair of 3.5t tippers with one guy hopping between them, unless it’s a job a way away. I rarely use my tipper trailer.

 

[Furniss]

Do you have a dumper ?

 

[LKSF]

When you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes and all that....

It's the right tool for the job, it's just the access wasn't up to it at that particular point in time. Cure the access problems and it'll work. I've done a lot of improving already and can get much further around my own fields now than I could when we first moved here.
It doesn't matter what you drive in conditions like these, if it's a mudbath you'll make a mess and get stuck.

 

[craig]

I did briefly consider a tipper truck, but for me it's just not worth the expense of maintenance, Tax, MOT, insurance etc when it'll be stood for most of its time.
If we'd had a Summer like the last two, or even back in June at least it would have got up there, but not after the recent heavy rain.
My 4x4 is off road only so I can play with it when I get the time. They came with two types of rear diffs and mine had the crap one (which went to no LSD) I had it swapped out for the earlier stronger version which I realise now was a mistake maybe, what I should have done is welded the original one up solid. I still have it so plan on doing this - if it ever stops raining. The later LSD in there now is much better, but it still slips if enough torque is applied.
You might recall from my other thread that I have a locking front diff kit for the front, I just haven't had time/weather to fit it yet. With a locking front diff and welded rear diff it'll be pretty much unstoppable as it's only when it goes 2wd that it struggles (one at the front, one at the back). There is that and also improving the bits of land where it does get stuck. The one in the pic is on my land so I can drop a load of hardcore in and make it less steep. It was such a steep incline the hitch bottomed out in the dip which didn't help.

The entrance track to our house and fields is owned by our nobber of a neighbour who has messed them both up with his greed and stupidity before we got here. Just trying to get out of the fields today over his ruined track took several attempts and my lovely new trailer looking like this:

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Taking it slowly and surely failed twice. It needed a run up with a bootfull in a higher gear to do it, but I was lucky not to slide into a wall.
It'll powerwash off!

Get and fit a reverse catch, makes a massive difference when you have to reverse on slippy ground, where there is not enough grip to overcome the auto reverse brakes. They fit just behind the handle in the slot on your pic above.

The first one I came to when I had a search, but loads to choose from, https://gttowing.co.uk/product/knot...to-reverse-over-run-brake-stop-catch--p00915/

 

[doobin]

When you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes and all that....

It's the right tool for the job, it's just the access wasn't up to it at that particular point in time. Cure the access problems and it'll work. I've done a lot of improving already and can get much further around my own fields now than I could when we first moved here.
It doesn't matter what you drive in conditions like these, if it's a mudbath you'll make a mess and get stuck.

I don't wish to appear a knob, but if your 4wd is offroad only, why not just get an old dumper on flotation wheels or even a tracked one? Fair enough if you are bringing in spoil down a road, but for moving around on site I don't think anyone will disagree when I say it's not the right tool for the job.

 

[Lancs Lad]

I don't wish to appear a knob, but if your 4wd is offroad only, why not just get an old dumper on flotation wheels or even a tracked one? Fair enough if you are bringing in spoil down a road, but for moving around on site I don't think anyone will disagree when I say it's not the right tool for the job.

Tbf doob id tend to agree id never dream of taking an Ifor off hardstanding round here...learnt the hard way . That's before we talk about the speed of dumping ...

 

[6feetdown]

I don't wish to appear a knob, but if your 4wd is offroad only, why not just get an old dumper on flotation wheels or even a tracked one? Fair enough if you are bringing in spoil down a road, but for moving around on site I don't think anyone will disagree when I say it's not the right tool for the job.

Especially with a brand new trailer. That swivel that @Mogman had for sale would've been perfect