Building a dump trailer pt. 1 of 2 (with hydraulics)

this thing is pretty stuck huh so [Music] [Music] so oh boy this was heavy i finally got the last missing pieces for this project and this was this two steel plates that i needed didn't think steel would weigh this much but yeah i wish i really had some kind of a country grain up here like andrew has maybe i will put something down the road but yeah there isn't much room here sadly but anyway the title says what these plates are for and these were the last missing pieces that i needed for this p

roject the rest of the steel that i have is here and i got this steel like three years ago but i never really started this project off i always wanted to build a dump trailer but for some reason i i think i just didn't have time to deal with it but now that i have these two steel plates i think i just have to do it because this just take up so much room by the way this was about 40 percent cheaper than plywood that's why i went with steel instead of plywood instead of buying osp and plywood guys

just buy stereo sheets so let's go check out my plan that i have for this build so i'm missing one thing that i still need to buy and that's the hydraulics but i'm thinking i'm gonna do that later yeah let's do that later so my idea is that i wanna kind of refurbish this trailer into a dump trailer currently it's a log trailer and i only use it like once a year and the rest of the year it's just sitting here being sad so i want to add some more use to this thing plus i don't need to use that mu

ch steel because the trailer is pretty much finished i only need to construct the bed on it and some minor other things so let's check this trailer out quickly here it's pretty much do-it-yourself kind of trailer there are no bearings or anything the wheels are just riding on the shaft there are 45 millimeter bushings inside at the wheel hops and it's just riding on the shaft i have dress tested this thing out pretty heavily here are some pictures of it very heavy log loads on it and this thing

does not break so i think it's fine for a trump trader so i think let's start this build off and first things first i have to get this thing into the shop [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so i mean if this works then this is the weirdest solution i have ever come up with okay so i got this thing in here i can't believe those screws actually worked but yeah whatever works right so i can't actually do anything here today i have to postpone this because there is something weird going o

n with the power right now the flickering is not due to the camera so half of the lights in the shop are not working and i tested that i have very low power right now in the sockets so i can't really run any power doors at this time until the power issue is fixed so i will come back in maybe a couple of days and maybe the power company has sorted out its problems by that time okay got my power back now and the first agenda is that i need to remove some unnecessary parts [Music] [Music] [Music] [

Applause] chicken okay so i got all the necessary parts cut don't really want to do any heavy duty cutting inside the shop i mean i do have fireproof insulation behind the osb all around the shop but still gotta be careful with sparks by the way guys check this out this is a must have in a shop [Music] power cable on a roller so yeah this is a really useful thing so i just finished cutting up all the random pieces of steel [Music] [Music] steel is probably the most recycled material on the plane

t right now but anyway i can start off building the bed now and the first thing that i need to do is install a couple of hinges here and also here so my idea for the dump bed is that it's supported only on two spots when it's down lowered it's supported on this section here and on these two hinges here but when the dump pad is up it's supported by the hydraulic cylinders that i'm gonna install somewhere here i'm guessing i'm not really sure yet if you have watched my videos before i really never

plan anything out ahead i just pretty much yolo everything [Music] so wow i hit this thing [Music] so it's kind of hard to get going sometimes but once it starts going it just continues to go nicely [Music] [Applause] what what is what is this what should happen what i'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be like this what you got this thing just broken into three pieces i should maybe get a new one i don't know that's a bit iffy i think but uh i don't know okay i got the one out but uh the secon

d one is completely destroyed i can't get this one out i mean i could drill it out but is it really worth it i'm gonna test this kit out maybe i can get the bolt out this way nice and tight then you're supposed to hammer this thing in here you get this thing in here then i don't know try to turn it out i guess this is the first time i'm using this kit by the way not sure what's happening right now oh i think it actually worked yeah it worked got the broken bolt out of there very nice at least th

is hexagon head won't fail like this phillips head does [Music] i mean this handle is pretty broken the mounting point here is totally dosed so i think my only option for now is tape until i can get the new one oh yeah i think camarata would be proud of this fix [Music] so [Music] i'm amazed how well this thing and can actually got through still so fast this thing was worth every penny sure it makes a ton of noise but that's why you wear these so i got some parts here the hinges for the latches

a new welding hook i'm not gonna replace it just yet i'm gonna wait until that one breaks again some drill bits pins for the cylinders four of them okay so i need to drill some holes here these plates are for the bed pins will be this ones here so the hole will go somewhere here so [Music] yeah pretty nice fit i think and and now i just need to do three more there we go okay well let's tuck these things in place [Music] so okay so i think i got it pretty straight don't really know how to properl

y install this i'm just gonna eyeball the thing i guess it's fine as long as it's straight this way and straight this way so yeah i'm gonna tuck this thing in place now and then we'll do the same to the other side by the way check this battery light out that i got it has magnets so it sticks to all sorts of metal parts pretty powerful magnets as well so here are the specs for it so yeah the light itself has a dedicated charger oh crap [Applause] that looks like this and the other end looks like

this and it also has a usb port i'm not sure what that is for maybe that you can charge the battery with that usb as well this is by the way the only light that does not cause any flickering to the gopro camera that i have so you can see no flickering going on at all ceiling lights that i have you can see small amounts of flickering going on and that's annoying so yeah if anybody is interested in this uh led light i'm gonna leave a link in the description where you can buy this thing [Music] [Mu

sic] okay just uh trying to make sure that this thing is straight okay so next thing i'm going to do is trim these edges off [Music] me [Music] okay so i got my mounts installed for the bed and the next part is to build the bed itself [Music] [Music] here [Music] the quality of cut is pretty good i mean you could never get something like this with a cut-off disc okay i have to drill some holes here again to kind of ensure that the hole is exactly on the same position i'm gonna draw a bit differe

nt method here so i'm gonna try to drill through all these four blades with a single pilot drill and later i'm just gonna use that pilot hole to drill the bigger holes out with this hole saw okay so i have four holes that should be exactly on the same spot and now i can use the hole saw [Music] okay well i got my first pin in place and this is the back pin and i still need to install somewhere here the hydraulic hydraulic pin but it should empty it just like that [Music] so so next order of busi

ness here is to start constructing the frame of the bed itself so let's do that and for the bed i'm going to try to repurpose these uh old box tubes that were on the trailer before [Music] [Applause] okay so i'm thinking i'm gonna tap these uh bushings and then weld them into the pinhole here because i think later this will be really annoying to do wow [Music] yeah that's a lot better okay so i think i got them pretty well in there now [Music] so [Music] okay so i think this will not break so wh

ile i have the dump bed upside down here i'm also gonna weld from the bottom here [Music] [Music] [Music] oh my god this took way too long also as i expected the ears did warp a little bit so i had a bit trouble putting them back i mean sometimes i'm getting really good at decent worlds but sometimes i get absolute crap okay so i got a lot of welding done welding with that thing is a bit of a pain mostly because it just takes so long time okay so i guess let's continue this build okay so our nex

t piece is a structurally important piece so i want to install uh 100 by 100 tubing and that tubing is where the hydraulic ramps will connect currently i'm not really sure in which location i'm supposed to install the tubing i guess when i finally get the hydraulics for it uh then i can start figuring this out logically i would go with the 100 by 100 tubing but i think i'm gonna choose the 90 by 90 dubing because this this one is six millimeter stick and the 100 by 100 is five millimeters thick

so that means this will be stronger and the weight will be roughly same okay i'm gonna stop thinking now and i'm gonna go with this one [Music] oh no no way man [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh looks like it survived the blade is not damaged i guess this thing is a bit too much for this thing but still it was able to got it [Music] oh so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] wow what what did i do with you yeah sure why not whatever i'm just gonna buy new ones they are gone so [Music] [Appl

ause] [Music] wow i can actually feel my dose again good to know they're still there all right so after standing at that press for like 30 minutes my feet just froze up but now it's a lot better [Music] you know what i think i need some hydraulic stuff here now all right so i will go get some hydraulic stuff i got some hydraulic stuff here let's let's check it out what i got okay some hydraulic hoses i guess okay i will take them points off i don't know hydraulic fittings some more hoses here th

is is heavy let's see what santa got me wow this is wrapped so heavily these rams are beefy as hell what gives so guys what do you think did i go a bit overkill with this ram i'm pretty sure this ram is able to actually bend this trailer in half if the need arises so one will go here and another will go here somewhere and the reason i got them was because of the price there are other reasons as well for example my tractor is plumbed for two-way hydraulics so i didn't want to get a telescope cyli

nder and another reason is because these ramps are pretty thick and heavy and i don't think they will really ever break on me so try to kind of picture how much this ram would cost i think you will be shocked when i tell you the actual price for this ram so some numbers on this ram the ram itself is 50 millimeters thick the cylinder is 90 millimeters in diameter and the total length of the ram is one meter if closed and 1.60 meters if fully opened so try to kind of guess how much this would cost

but keep one thing in mind guys so i had a leaky cylinder on my myanmar here namely this one here and this is a smaller ramp that i got for the trailer so the rod is uh 40 millimeters and cylinder is 80 millimeters so it's about what like five to ten percent smaller and i took it to a hydraulic shop to get the seals replaced they asked roughly 300 for uh replacing these seals out so yeah three hundred dollars to get only seals are placed on this ram and now the price of this ram 130 dollars i'm

not even joking here and that ram only seals cost me 300 130 300 a bigger ram a smaller ram that absolutely makes no sense so actually this is not the first time i'm buying these rams i got exactly the same rams for my tractors front end loader so let's go check that out quickly so these ones right here on my tractor front end loader there's hardly any rust on them and literally zero leaks as long as i don't put them on the wrong and angle or anything like that i think they should be fine [Musi

c] so okay so next step would be to figure out where i need to weld this shot to the frame and i'm guessing something like this maybe i also have to make sure it's not too far off in that direction because these cylinders have quite a lot of movement [Music] okay i guess i figured it out i'm gonna try to do something here um [Music] so [Music] here [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh okay now we're getting somewhere okay so next piece that i need are the ears

for the ram bottom part here i'm guessing 15 is fine [Music] [Music] so so [Music] so now i can tactile this to the frame then i can hook up the hydraulics and actually test this thing out maybe i don't need hydraulics maybe i can just lift it by hand i just need to see how far it goes only 31 centimeters so far 48 that means this much still to go i'm going to try to push it to the max as i can but i have to cut these ends off because it will hit this end pretty soon [Music] 61. well it's almos

t maxed out i'm missing two centimeters i just hit the ceiling here so i can't go any further but i think this is enough i mean the grade is pretty good here so i think uh rocks definitely will fall off and uh gravel also no problem maybe topsoil very wet topsoil can get stuck but to be honest i don't think i'm gonna change this i think this uh grade is pretty decent glad i didn't need to hook up the hydraulics because that would have taken at least a couple of hours so i'm thinking i'm gonna cu

t this build up and do videos at first i was thinking i'm gonna maybe uh do this all in one video but apparently it just takes so much time and now i'm thinking this this build is just gonna be too long for one video i'm guessing dupe will be fine so i'm gonna wrap up this video now and in the next video i'm gonna start by building everything together that needs to be welded for example i need to do wells here here everything down here except the ears for the cylinders everything here down here

same on that side and bunch of more welding so so yeah i'm gonna leave that all into the second episode so guys thanks for watching this episode and join me in for the next one when i will continue this build bye