Retrofit trailer tailgate valves

[Rob Holmes]

Does anyone know of a supplier for retrofit valves which stop hydraulic tailgates opening until trailer is tipped.
Also, are they easy to fit?

 

[alomy75]

Does anyone know of a supplier for retrofit valves which stop hydraulic tailgates opening until trailer is tipped.
Also, are they easy to fit?

Has someone had a little accident?!

 

[Rob Holmes]

Has someone had a little accident?!

We did have an hour or so with brushes this afternoon, got away with it pretty lightly, want to make precautions so it doesn’t happen again on main road

 

[alomy75]

We did have an hour or so with brushes this afternoon, got away with it pretty lightly, want to make precautions so it doesn’t happen again on main road

I often wonder how this doesn’t happen more frequently.

 

[Mark C]

Something like this

Hydraulic Pushbutton End Of Stroke Valve, Normally Open, V-121 1/2 NA | End Stroke Valves | Hydraulic Valves

From our range of End Stroke Valves, part of our wide collection of Hydraulic Valves. Shop at Flowfit today!

www.flowfitonline.com

 

[Lofty1984]

Something like this

Hydraulic Pushbutton End Of Stroke Valve, Normally Open, V-121 1/2 NA | End Stroke Valves | Hydraulic Valves

From our range of End Stroke Valves, part of our wide collection of Hydraulic Valves. Shop at Flowfit today!

www.flowfitonline.com

Cheapest option is for a tap on the hyd pipe at the tractor end but will mean you obviously have to get off the seat

 

[Nearly]

@Mr Happy

 

[ColinV6]

If electric spools you could just lock out the door one on the screen. Perhaps even manual ones sometimes have a way of locking the lever to stop accidentally pulling the wrong one.

 

[DrDunc]

They're called hydraulic end stroke valves. Normally open version closes the circuit to the door when the trailer body presses the end of the valve

Flowfit sell them on ebay for £100 plus the vat

 

[JeremyD]

Cheapest option is for a tap on the hyd pipe at the tractor end but will mean you obviously have to get off the seat

Ours has a tap but still opens enough about inch! So grain still pours out! Im wondering if I put a tap on both pipe ends would it work?

 

[Salopian_Will]

Plumb the tail gate the other way around. So push to open to tail gate, pull back to tip trailer.

 

[Chae1]

Plumb the tail gate the other way around. So push to open to tail gate, pull back to tip trailer.

That's what I do too.

No spillages so far this year...

Normally a few.

 

[KB6930]

Ours has a tap but still opens enough about inch! So grain still pours out! Im wondering if I put a tap on both pipe ends would it work?

Put it on the other pipe

 

[KB6930]

If electric spools you could just lock out the door one on the screen. Perhaps even manual ones sometimes have a way of locking the lever to stop accidentally pulling the wrong one.

I've had a leccy spool let it open when it was locked off in the screen .

Safest option is the the valve that let's it open when it's tipped a bit but you need to make sure it's shut before it's down again

 

[clbarclay]

Finding a fool proof solution can be easier said than done. One of our tractors had spool valves that didn't seal properly. If the spool was left in neutral, it would slowly tip a trailer. I learnt the hard way to always keep those spools in float when grain carting.

 

[DrDunc]

Hydraulic Pushbutton End Of Stroke Valve, 3/8" BSP, Normally Open, V-101

Hydraulic Pushbutton End Of Stroke Valve, Normally Open, V-101 3/8" NA. From our range of End Stroke Valves, part of our wide collection of Hydraulic Valves. Shop at Flowfit today!

www.flowfitonline.com

Simplest solution that's nearest to idiot proof

Bolt to the chassis rail so that trailer body presses against the button until the tipping starts

And relax

 

[solo]

Those valves are fitted to my Bailey trailers. They work well.

 

[Drillman]

Plumb the tail gate the other way around. So push to open to tail gate, pull back to tip trailer.

That's what I do too.

We do that as well.