Vehicle capacity

Usually around 10-12 ft. from the ground, but my trailer deck is around 2.5 ft. Today's tallest point was right at 12'. Was 2 compact cars on top of a load of tin......11,300#.........5,220# of it was tin.

Originally Posted by c4f5

Usually around 10-12 ft. from the ground, but my trailer deck is around 2.5 ft. Today's tallest point was right at 12'. Was 2 compact cars on top of a load of tin......11,300#.........5,220# of it was tin.

Nice load.

If you crush the roofs in you'll have more room. You can get another car on this one easy, if not two. It's pretty easy to crush them down to the firewall.

EDIT:
Make sure to crush them on the ground. This way you won't put any additional stress on the trailer.

Nice tip. I appreciate it. I have tried it a couple times in the past, and I don't do it for a couple reasons. I work from home, and although it does happen, I try to avoid breaking any glass in the drive.....happy wife = happy life My trailer starts complaining when it gets over 6 tons on it. I also get paid more for cars than I do for shred, so I split the roofs of the cars to stuff as much shred in as I can and get paid car weight for it. The red '89 Toyota Corolla on the back weighed 3320#. The blue mid 80's Nissan Sentra up front had no engine or transmission and still weighed 2760#, after they clawed the stuffed wash machine out as shred. And last. but not least, my loader only goes up to 10.5' with the forks flat.

One day soon, I hope to remedy the wimpy trailer syndrome.