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“Poor Man’s” Tile Trailer
“I built it for about $1,500. Commercial rigs cost $5,000 to $6,000 so I saved a lot of money,” says David Sager, Stirling, Ontario, about his home-built, tandem axle tile trailer. It has a tile ring 8 ft. in dia. and 10 ft. high.

    The pull-type, 4-wheeled trailer is designed to hold a roll of drainage tile vertically for transport and then tip it back in the field to unroll into a trench. To load a roll, the operator removes a reel from the top end of the spool and then backs up and inserts the upright shaft through a 12-in. dia. pipe in the roll. In the field, a pair of hydraulic cylinders are used to tip the spool horizontally to the ground.

    “I came up with the idea because my neighbor bought a 3-pt. mounted tile plow and I agreed to build the trailer for him, as well as for my own use,” says Sager. “I already had most of the parts that I needed.”

    He started with a pair of big, heavy tandem axles off an old trailer and built a frame out of 7-in. channel iron to mount on top of it. A local shop cut a turntable out of 3/4-in. thick steel plate and drilled holes in it to match the wheel hub and spindle off an old dump truck, which Sager then bolted on. He also welded spokes to a round 3/4-in. thick steel plate and to the 8-ft. dia. steel ring, which the shop also built.

    “The turntable rotates on big, heavy bearings so it spins easily,” says Sager.

    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Sager, 15 Rosebush Road, Stirling, Ontario, Canada K0K 3E0 (ph 613 395-2173; david.sager@bell.net).


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