Forgot to add whatever you get make sure it has power down. Might be standard now but when i bought mine it was an option.$$$$$$
I ended up with a Cam 6x10. I wanted the lowest deck height. My body is just too broken up and over the years I’ve noticed how much easier it is the lower the trailer is When I rebuilt my woods trailer I went so far as to flip the chassis upside down to make a low rider out of it. Lost some ground clearance but so much easier to load by hand. if there’s one thing I don’t like about the cam is it’s tailgate design. Barn doors would be better. Not sure if that’s possible with the lo profile deck. When scrounging logs it doesn’t matter much anyway. The tailgate stays home. If I were to do it again I’d go 6x12. I wanted small with the intent of going in smaller spaces. I gotta say this Cam trailer is built a lot stronger than I thought it would be. After seeing so many used ones rusted and smashed I thought they were just tin boxes. I’ve done some minor welding to the rear pockets while adapting it to a log loader. Was very worried my idea would tear the back of the trailer right off. It’s never budged, groaned or even whimpered no matter how big a log I hoist aboard.
I am not speaking for farmer steve but from my experience. If the trailer is dumping material and you want to lower the bed while some material is still in the back section of the trailer then power down is helpful. An example would be spreading gravel, if the remaining load is on the back portion of the trailer and you need to lower the bed to stop spreading or to drive under an overhead obstacle then power down is needed.
helpful yes. Needed no. A little prior planning goes a long way. Gravity still works. If someone wants me to drop a load in twenty different places I say no LOL
Not sure how other trailers are but mine is the proverbial "slower than molaases in January" in January. Maybe I'm just impatient. I talked to the Mfg. thinking i had a problem but they told me I could change to a different (thinner) weight oil.
It has a plastic tank and I'm not sure how that would work. I'm not using it on a regular basis so I just deal with it. Power down would be the ticket. Not sure what is involved to convert it. The pump has other plugs in it but not sure what they are for.
Mine is plastic too. And I have gravity down. I was thinking something with a thermostat like the heat tape used on crawl space plumbing that has a thermostat that regulates to 50 degrees F. The only ones I can find are 110v. So would need an inverter too.. Next question. Is your trailer really rated for 10 tons?
