Posted by Dean on July 25, 2020 at 08:32:46 from (68.39.250.176):
Recently, my neighbor bought a factory built 10X20 barn/shed. Building is built elsewhere and delivered by truck/trailer to buyer.
My neighbor lives on property accessed only by a 10' private road across my property upon which he is an easement holder. Because his easement has multiple restrictions regarding ingress/egress, he contacted me about delivery of the building.
His access road is steep, narrow and has two sharp turns, one a right angle at the top of a steep sunken road.
Skipping all of the details which would make this story more understandable, the company that built the building delivered it on a 30' bumper pull trailer pulled by a 1 ton Dodge flatbead truck with short flatbed upon which was a single cylinder Honda powered machine used for unloading and positioning of the building.
Neighbor and I arranged to meet the delivery driver upon the public road at the intersection with the private road accessing neighbor's property.
Delivery driver had the most interesting trailer that I have seen. Aside from telescoping and tilting, it also had a hydraulic mechanism between the dual axles that allowed moving the trailer side to side. Mechanism had 4 low profile, high pressure tires that could be hydraulically lowered to lift the road tires completely off of the road surface. The small tires were also chain driven by a hydraulic motor allowing the operator to move the trailer side to side in order to negotiate tight turns, etc. Everything was remotely controlled by a small hand held cordless device allowing the operator to control operations from the ideal position.
Driver moved trailer as far as possible to right angle corner at top of hill before tires would go off of pavement and within about 3 minutes had moved the trailer road tires three feet to the outside of the turn allowing further travel without leaving the pavement. One additional operation was necessary at another corner before driver could deliver the building.
Driver told me that he rarely needed side shift in rural areas but used it routinely in cities to move buildings into small lots accessed by alleys, etc.
I searched online for information about such trailers but found nothing relevant.
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