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Scheduled for end of 2024. Does anyone know the detach system on these old trailers? Pony motor, wet kit, winch, or? https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=381044718370674&set=a.162313426910472
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When a Talbert cable neck trailer was to be unloaded, the driver would release the fifth wheel, then drove the tractor ahead slowly. The trailer slid down a ramp on the tractor, immediately behind the fifth wheel. The gooseneck then was secured to the tractor by a pair of steel stops, which fit into holes on the ramps. Cable from the tractor's winch was secured to the A-frame on the gooseneck, and the driver then pulled away from the trailer. As one old-timer said to me, pretty slick.
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Pullshovel 52 "nailed it". Here is a picture from a Talbert brochure. We use to use 2 Dayton wheel clamps (second picture) with bolts in the rails to hold the neck to lift. hold, and lower the neck.  Useually you would just back under the neck when loaded. But if you had a heavy machine there was a D ring on the front of the neck and you used the winch to pull the neck back up. Sometimes the tractor would pull a "wheelie"...    Talbert Cable neck 2 by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  Dayton wheel clamp wedge by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>
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Thank you both!
Very cool. Now I can see how it works.
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