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| So originally that chute design was so you just dropped the hitch down to the ground to load semi's. However that was back in the day of center load doors on cattle pots. Todays trucks you have to pull the big pipe pen to take hitch out, it's a two person job, it can be done alone but a real pain. You can leave the stand attached by the front two 1/2" bolts and pivot it up to bottom side of the tongue for transport. However it will hang a little low, you will need to tie it up to do so.
So the procedure we use to set the old chute up and a newer one is to first unhook from truck. Then have a person stand on back of chute floor to raise the front of chute into the air. You then can install the stand with the 4 1/2" bolts. Then have that person walk forward in chute, weight will transfer to front, chute will go down onto stand front stand. At that time you take the J pins out holding chute deck floor to side panels. Then you will be able to crank the chute up with the big wheel crank. At that point you will want to take the tongue pin out and remove the T hitch so you can back semi up to chute.
Those loops on the side of floor I suspect for lifting the floor during building of the floor. I think they left them in so you could tie panels down if needed. They sold a complete chute with 10-12 16' panels and two bow gates at one time. They were the heavy Classic panels and bow gates. Took two guys to load everything as they were heavy.
I would recommend throwing away that big wheel and the T tongue and redesigning it like the newer Powder River chutes. I should have took more pics of mine last Wednesday when I went and got it off the road. I can go back maybe the end of this week as I might need to make a trip down there. That big wheel can be a arm breaker. The newer chutes are built so the stand just pivots up and pins under the transport tongue. they also use a chain to set height and hold floor solid after setting height with winch.
To hook it up on truck, a guy would stand in back of chute and transfer the weight and raise tongue up so he could roll chute forward and drop it on your ball hitch on truck. Worked good if someone was backing truck up at the time. Also don't load any panels on side of chute or gates in it until you install J pins for transport or you will fight it trying to install them. | |
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Anyone make continuous fence into free standing portable panels?
