Trailers with odd axle arrangements

So many pages have sort of vanished over the years or I need  to search better ha ha ha

Anyway I'll bung this up here 

 

And might as well chuck this one in here as well 

 


Paul
 

Those gates must be heavy to need a quad setup.

Are the roof frames part of , or just attached to the gates?
Gumpy

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Paul

 NMP
sorry I lost who ever to cerdit the photo details to 



Paul

Looks a bit like dropping down into Brimstone or Valley Coal perhaps??
Just a WAG.... Dave_64

RE:   odd axle arrangements
Spose we fit right in here
to cart an indivisable loads
we are granted extra axle loadings
eg: a 3x4 that B 3 rows of axles with 4 tyres on each axle we get 25t
a 2 x 4 on a tandem drive truck or trailer axles we are granted 18.5t
we run 2 close cuple non turning dollys th@ are hooked onto truck with a 5th wheel (turntable)
this grants us 25t t over the dolly group  
years later others tried by running a pusher axle on air bag suspension in front of the tandem drive truck just behind the tucks cab to be granted 25t on the drive n lazy group
the authorities @ the time outlawed  this lazy axle group mainly because when being weighed the driver in the cab was adjusting the air bags via a in cab control valve to his advantage
 a pic of our setup
 

 
Some times called Silly Wheels
LOL
cya

Mrs and Dave, Photo from Steve Solo on FB Coal Trucks and Tippers. Macquarie Pass 1978.

Thanks for that, I was pretty sure I had stumbled across the photo on the FB page and went looking for it again with no luck
FB pages move so quickly that it's hard to find things again

Paul

Swishman, I remember getting pulled up by the authorities in Beaudesert whilst driving my old Atkinstein- well actually, it was my brother driving, he didn't actually have a license so I gave him my wallet, but when the copper asked him his birthday he couldn't remember! So I had to prompt a bit "ah, the 19th isn't it Andrew?"  "oh yeah, that's right!"..
So I copped a bloody log book fine when I wasn't even driving! 
To add to the general confusion,. I had picked up a young lady with a damn near newborn baby a couple of days prior, she was hitch hiking out of West Wyalong, so there were four of us in the day cab Atki.. "Bit squeezy in there?' said the copper...."ah, yeah nah?" I replied...
Anyway short story long, the Atkinson had a airbag lazy pusher on it, I never knew why Dad said "don't ever tell anyone that that axle lifts up", and that always stuck with me- especially when the copper / RTA whoever it was started sniffing around asking all sorts of questions about it. 
So "of course not, officer" was the answer when he asked if we could lift that axle..
Cheers
Rich