towing a gooseneck with a flatbed dump ?

[sweetk30]

so can you tow a gooseneck with a flatbed dump ? the current bed thats shot is 12ft long . i will be doing a 9ft or 9ft-6" long bed for the new one to let me do bumper pull trailers as the overhang now is WAY to long and will hit stuff on a trailer .

this truck has a scissor lift center ram lift and 2 hinges in the rear with 1" pins .

would this be a bad idea or o.k. ?

i can fab up / make a hook setup to lock the front of the bed down for towing needs like a dump truck rear gate if need be .

 

[HankScorpio]

I have a silverado with a non dumping flatbed. It has a gooseneck in the flatbed but does not have big frame plates right at the gooseneck plate. Its pretty tough in my opinion. If you were to make some tie down hooks to hold the front as you were thinking I don't see much difference between the two. Probably not a heavy haul trailer but with reasonable expectations I think it would work fine.

 

[sweetk30]

Was thinking this trailer at around 20k lbs would be my MAX if i was to do it .

the new long term project THE ROLLING TANK

so I have known of this trailer since around 1996ish . it has been sitting since before i learned of it then . 10 or so years ago he moved it to other farm land he used and put a portable food freezer on it and tarped it . well he never used it and the tarp rotted away and now the freezer unit...

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[Truckman4life]

I am planning to do the same thing some day. I see no issues with doing it. I would definitely do some kind of lock to hold the front of the bed down when towing.
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[Truckman4life]

In the above pic you psoted it even looks like you have enough room behind the scissor lift to fit the ball mount and still be above or slightly forward of the rear axle.

 

[ktmoutfront]

Why not do a hide a ball attached to the frame with a door in the flat bed? First time you raise the bed after forgetting to release the front locks, you might be swapping frames.

 

[Truckman4life]

I'm no hydraulics expert but I had the idea of doing a hydraulic lock and sequencing(if that's the term) so that when you basically go down once the bed is down it engages the lock cylinder then when you go up it releases the lock cylinder first before raising the bed. No issues forgetting it then.

 

[gone huntin]

My dad had a '72 c30 flatbed dump and a '74 c30 flatbed dump, both with wood floors. He had doors and ball pockets put in both beds for towing our backhoe and Cat front end loader. He never had an issue with either and there was nothing holding the front of the bed down.