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Quinella
Posted: Sunday, June 25, 2017 10:54:13 PM

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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
Custom_Styrene
Posted: Sunday, June 25, 2017 11:32:09 PM

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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:

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kcmtoys
Posted: Monday, June 26, 2017 7:34:18 PM

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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
Quinella
Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 11:19:28 AM

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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
DumpsterToy
Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 5:30:44 PM
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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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