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Putting brakes on a bale trailer

  • 07-07-2014 9:24am
    #1
    The Cuban
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    My Trailer can carry 8 bales even 9 with another stacked ontop. The issue is that my journey covers a couple of steep down hills and I would like to have braking on the trailer as well. My bale trailer is made using wheels from a lorry which have the brake drums which as far as I know were operated by an air piston. I wonder would it be possible to use a hydraulic ram to operate the brakes (similar to those on my slurry tanker). The tractor is pipped for brakes. My question, is running the brakes as simple as connecting a ram to the brake linkage????


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  • #2
    micraX
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    Is your trailer plated for how much weight it can carry and was the drawbar welded on by a qualified welder? If not, I wouldn't bother retrofitting brakes as it wouldn't be aloud on tge road anyway.


  • #3
    Zr105
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Zr105


    The Cuban wrote: »
    My Trailer can carry 8 bales even 9 with another stacked ontop. The issue is that my journey covers a couple of steep down hills and I would like to have braking on the trailer as well. My bale trailer is made using wheels from a lorry which have the brake drums which as far as I know were operated by an air piston. I wonder would it be possible to use a hydraulic ram to operate the brakes (similar to those on my slurry tanker). The tractor is pipped for brakes. My question, is running the brakes as simple as connecting a ram to the brake linkage????

    Yeah pretty much, so long as they aren't seized up! You can get units through spaldings dealers that have the ram a linkage and spring all set up that you just bolt to the lever and weld to the axle


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