Heavy Haul Trailer

[Bistineau]

Guys this thread is over 3 years old. Pretty sure it's worked out by now...

Naw, Shade Tree Welder is still trying to repair the trailer or else he would have been back to show before and after pix of the damage and the fix. Maybe he's waiting on the paint to dry before he takes the pix, so the camera won't get stuck in the new paint.

[Cgotto6]

Guys this thread is over 3 years old. Pretty sure it's worked out by now...

Pretty sure I used 8018 when I did a Roger's lowboy trailer....replaced the lower deck beam flange....

[tackit]

If you can get a serial number off of a trailer or farm equipment you may be able to find out what steel they used and what rod to use to repair it by calling the company who made it.

[karenbaker60]

Hi

Thank you so much for letting as know this one. I got a lots of information about Heavy haul trailer. So I'm hoping that you can post more here. Keep on posting guys

[Dualie]

probably 10018 or 11018

[dkennett]

Heavy Haul Trailer

This discussion makes me recall my high school days forty years ago growing up on a cotton farm.

We ran John Deere row crop tricycle tractors, mainly 70, 720 & 730's. The front wheel forks were subjected to a lot of abuse and tended to crack between the four 1/2" bolt holes where the fork was attached to the bottom of the steering sector shaft.

I think these forks were made with the T1 steel being discussed.

The repair that worked or took the longest to break again was to drill the crack ends, grind out the cracks and heat the bolt hole area as best we could with a multi tip rosette oxy-acetylene torch and weld with a "low hydrogen" rod. E-?????.

My question is what is / was this LH rod, what is its classification code and would it be useful for this type of repair of T1?

[Broccoli1]

I agree with Black Wolf, You want to use the stronger rod.

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[Portable Welder]

I agree with Black Wolf, You want to use the stronger rod.

[ralphforgey]

Hello shade. Do you have any picture? I think your trailers were grossly over loaded, and abused. Trailers are known to have the capacity to easily carry a heavy or any other vehicle.

[Black Wolf]

T-1, T-100, QT (Quenched and Tempered) 100 ... Same - Same just different terminology depending on what your local steel shop calls it.

Main rails should be QT-100.

Cross members will be "Mild" Steel, and should be "Wide Flange" available at just about any steel supplier.

I pre-heat rails, then weld out with Hobart Fabco110 (Dual Shield Flux Core) or with 110-18 to match the characteristics of the stronger of the 2 metals, which is the QT-100.

Other than the way the damage was caused, it is a pretty common, and straight forward repair.

Have a Good Night.

[Sonora Iron]

Hey sonora are you refering to the steel cracking along the outside of the new welds?

Yes!_______

[shade tree welder]

Hey sonora are you refering to the steel cracking along the outside of the new welds?

[Sonora Iron]

I meant some type of high tensile steel ,sorry about that. Ilooked on the loadking trailer website states 100,000/80,000 ksi steel

Most likely T-1.

I worked on some heavy haul lowboys that were made with T-1. These trailers were grossly over loaded, and abused! Cracked welds from one end to the other. We arced the bad welds out, and re-welded with 110-18. Everything went according to plan, until the post weld cool down!

[walker]

There are a couple of guys over on the shopfloortalk.com board who repair this kind of stuff regularly, and seem to do a real good job of it, you might post over there too.