tanker trailer

[ox_man]

alright i need some help figureing out what to do, here is the scope.
i found a tank off an old sewage truck or something, its an 800 gal tank i think its about 12ft long 3-4ft wide. i want to put it on its own trailer for flooding a mud hole when needed. here is what i figured so far

800 gals is about 6680 lbs

tank is about 1500-2000 lbs guessing

i have an old 3/4 truck chevy i think, would the full floating axle hold up to the weight with some modified springs? i might be able to get a dually rear end also if need be, or another sugestions. i want to keep it relativly cheap, i'm getting the tank for $150

[MOOSE]

i would try heavy duty springs and airbags

[ox_man]

i'm thinking instead tandem trailer house axles 6000lbs each

[tie6044]

I have a 1,000 gal plastic tank that weighs almost nothing and I used to fill it and haul water in the back of my '79 Chevy 1 ton dually with 12 leaf packs in the rear. I never took it off my property like that because it squatted the truck pretty good. I would shoot for a tandem trailer or something a little bit bigger.

[SuperDirty]

I guess it all depends how far you plan to haul it when it's full 8000lbs isn't alot for a reg. car trailer but if your not going to far with the tank full you could probably get by with less.

Trailer house axles don't have brakes and water would be sloshing around in the tank it could make for some kinda squrrilly stoping.

[SuperDirty]

Here's another thought. I was watching a TTC video and they had a mud pit out in California. The DNR supplied the mud from a sediment pond. They hauled in about 10 dumptruck loads of nasty mud.

WOULDN'T IT BE COOL TO ADD MUD TO THE HOLE INSTEAD OF WATER!!!!!!!

I just wonder if it's possible to get some mud. I watch this guy up the road from me dredge out the swamp on his property and sell the black dirt it would be expensive to buy enough for a mud bog but what do the citeis do when those sediment ponds get full?

Anyone work for a city???

Or DNR that could answer this?