Magnastop??
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Hey guys,
I'm finally getting my own truck next week after upgrading a while back. I'm currently ordering/thinking about everything I want on the truck. I heard about the device called a MagnaStop from another recent upgraded newbie at Prime. It supposedly allows you to get the pins in the correct hole every time on the first try.
Does anyone use this? Its 50 bucks...not bad but still thought I'd get a couple other takes on it if I could. I've never guesstimated when sliding before. Not sure how good I'll be at it.
https://www.magnastop.online
A lot of prime trailers have the stop bars on them. But after a couple of months u won’t need that stuff. You will get a feel for the movement of the trailer. I wanted one when I first started , glad I didn’t buy one.
I posted this about 3 years ago:
Home Depot shopping list:
* 2" x 8-10" galvanized pipe nipple
* 2" ellComes in at less than 10 bucks. Assemble.
Calculate the holes to move. Count it that many "open" holes and put the pipe into it, the ell sticking out toward you.
Release tandems , slowly move the truck till it bumps the pipe. (Move the truck a teensy bit in the other direction to un-pinch the pipe). Get out, remove pipe, close tandem lock. Et voilà! Tandems adjusted!
Ten bucks or fifty bucks. You decide. (And what do you do when you lose your Magna Stop?
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Hey guys,
I'm finally getting my own truck next week after upgrading a while back. I'm currently ordering/thinking about everything I want on the truck. I heard about the device called a MagnaStop from another recent upgraded newbie at Prime. It supposedly allows you to get the pins in the correct hole every time on the first try.
Does anyone use this? Its 50 bucks...not bad but still thought I'd get a couple other takes on it if I could. I've never guesstimated when sliding before. Not sure how good I'll be at it.
https://www.magnastop.online
My personal way is guestimation. I'm pretty good at it and it's free, absolutely no cost and it takes up more room in my head than on my truck. I generally look at about how far I need to move it then when pulling forward/backwards I look at a spot on the ground about the same distance from a spot on my top step. When I get the two spots lined up I go back and check, usually right on or within a hole. Try it before you buy it.
My personal way is guestimation. I'm pretty good at it and it's free, absolutely no cost and it takes up more room in my head than on my truck. I generally look at about how far I need to move it then when pulling forward/backwards I look at a spot on the ground about the same distance from a spot on my top step. When I get the two spots lined up I go back and check, usually right on or within a hole. Try it before you buy it.
Thats how G-Town slides the tandems as well, only he uses his old cut door seal as his marker on ground. Figure how many pounds you want to move and 6 inches for each hole for most trailers, he said some trailer holes are different but very rare on the Walmart account. He showed me that during my ride along with him
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Listen to Errol he is more than a pretty face. I made his device back when I had to slide randoms and it worked pretty well.
Listen to Errol he is more than a pretty face. I made his device back when I had to slide randoms and it worked pretty well.
What are you sayin' Bobcat?? 
Thanks for validating my idea.
Congrats on the upgrade. That device could come in handy and if I had to slide tandems I’d have one.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
GREETINGS TO ALL OLD HANDS as well NEW!!
How many of US have (or had) a spray bottle with a bit of Dish Soap and filled with Water in the side box or Cab?? For spraying the Trailer Pins and Track!!
I learned that from a Old Hand (most likely an Owner Op) in 1999 or 2000.
Of course it usually helped NOT AT ALL for extremely RUSTY Trailer Slides, when the Pins would even retract.
Using a $50.00 Tool to help stop at a certain point when sliding Tandems seems to me to be one of them thar Truck Stop "Gotchas", along the line of "Jake Brake Shoes and Fluid, Muffler Bearings and $5.00 Showers".
Use What You Need To Complete The Task!!
CHEERS!!
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Works great, cheap and easy. Got all the parts at a Tractor Supply.
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Hey guys,
I'm finally getting my own truck next week after upgrading a while back. I'm currently ordering/thinking about everything I want on the truck. I heard about the device called a MagnaStop from another recent upgraded newbie at Prime. It supposedly allows you to get the pins in the correct hole every time on the first try.
Does anyone use this? Its 50 bucks...not bad but still thought I'd get a couple other takes on it if I could. I've never guesstimated when sliding before. Not sure how good I'll be at it.
https://www.magnastop.online