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Joined: 6/18/2003 Posts: 2,135 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
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This was discussed a few months ago, but I still don't think I have seen one going down the road. Chuck swears he saw them up his way. Randy, you said rigging companies use them. I would love some pics of these trailer hauling something. Would they haul steel or concrete pipe? Thanks, CAW
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Joined: 6/16/2014 Posts: 239 Location: Waterford, MI
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A simple google search comes up with many images of these trailers in there natural habitat. Here's a link too one https://www.google.com/search?q=nelson+ramp+trailer&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS685US685&hl=en-US&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi75JGkrtrUAhXG5SYKHbTlCQ4Q_AUICigC&biw=375&bih=591#imgrc=rVEMwI6HaYJHlM:
Lee customstyrene@gmail.comhttps://www.facebook.com/customsytrene
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Joined: 4/3/2003 Posts: 2,070 Location: Rockford,IL.
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CAW. I saw a tandem axle Nelson Ramp trailer in Detroit a few years back at a place I delivered a machine. The trailer was owned by a rigging company and they were hauling a forklift with it. Ken
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Joined: 6/18/2003 Posts: 2,135 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
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Thank you Ken: I have looked through their site and other sites and I cannot find anything more than forklifts being hauled. I think Randy is right about the wheels on a real machine versus Chucks model. The real machine allows less of an angle and thus allows more wheeled machines to go up the ramp. And then of course you can let it down horizontally to a dock door for loading. I just think it's a weird trailer. It's like a flatbed with it's own ramp. CAW
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Joined: 8/9/2002 Posts: 996 Location: worthington, ohio
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Nelson made some very different heavy haul trailers in the late 1950's. I worked for as laborer for a larger sewer contractor in the late 50's and early 60's. This company used all Northwest shovels. They did not own a lowboy to transport them. They hired a heavy hall trucking company to move them. This company had a Nelson rail trailer that you removed the four rear wheels. I had the pleasure to help with chore several times. They moved Northwest 95 hoes and cranes without removing anything. You jacked up the rear end of the rails and pulled the pins holding the spring and wheel assemblies from each side, lowered the rail to the ground and walked the machine onto the rails. After getting the machine to where they wanted it on the rails, blocking was placed on the rails and railroad jacks were used to lift the rails to the track frame to get ground clearance for the tracks, then blocking was put between the drive sprockets and the tracks to remove the slack. They would have a police escort front and back and to my knowledge they were never stopped. I am having a 1/48th scale model model of this trailer, and when I get it I will share some pics. of it.
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