We finally established what was wrong with the new trailer, it was the wrong way up. No wonder we couldn't load it. The trailer was dragged out of the workshop on rollers, had 4 wheels fitted so that a crane could lift it twice. Firstly onto it's side on blocks, then onto the wheels. A little after these photos were taken, the wheels would have been removed to get the trailer under the door height and pushed back into the workshop on rollers to have the door fitted and the stabilising frame that will run forward from pins below the bin in front of the first axle to an upside down skid plate that will have a fith wheel pin fitted to lock onto the tractor unit.
The trailer has been undercoated and could be ready to move to the paintshop in a couple of weeks. Noel Williams, the engineer who makes these trailers, car transporters, tipper bodies, low loaders and all manner of things for the transport industry says this is the biggest 3 axle demolition body trailer to be made to date in NZ. A better appreciation of its size will be possible when we get a truck under it to move it to the paint shop.
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