Well, after looking at dump trailers last Wednesday and talking to the dealer. I figured out what I wanted and everything. On Friday, my dad stopped in and spoke to him, and the dealer said someone was looking at it, and he kind of lied about it being sold since he knew we were looking at it. So my dad went in there and let him know we were just waiting on the bank, and he pulled it out of his inventory and put it to the side. So on Friday, when my dad got home, we went and talked to the bank, and then him and me finalized all of the documents on it today, and I got to go pick it up around 3:45. The dealer made sure it was all serviced, charged up, and ready to go. Then once I picked it up, we went and got some mowers that were given to us to fix and put the first few scratches in the deck, so that's already checked off the list. So far, I like everything on it and it's super well built, no complaints yet, but I have had it for less than 6 hours. So enough of the storytelling and on to the good details.

The trailer is a Southland 7x14 with 2 7k axles under it. It's a scissor lift trailer with a hydraulic jack. It has a 110 onboard charger and a solar charger. It has slam latch doors, there are only barn doors and no spreader gate but I don't plan on hauling any large amounts of gravel or things that I would need a spreader gate for. It does make the truck squat a bit, but I'm glad that I put those overload leafsprings in there. I can go about 55-60 on the highway, but any more than that and it brings the rpms up a bit much. After hauling those mowers, I would like to make a way to either put a 2" sleeve for a winch in the middle or another d ring for a come along. Other than that, that's about all I know about it so far. I plan to work a few jobs with it tomorrow to help myself get caught back up and use it a little bit.

Nice set up

Very nice!

Looking good

Nice trailer.
Money spent on tools for your trade is money well spent.

Nice. Here is a picture of mine with the first load that I hauled on it. It sounds like it is very similar to your trailer. I'm sure you will like having it around, they are very handy.

Looks nice

WS

A work of advise,take it or leave it...don't tow with that set up over 45 MPH.

5.3. Engine?

wtg, keep plugging along, looks like a nice trailer

Congratulations. The spreader gate on dump trailers is a joke, you're better off without it.

I would also echo keep speeds low to moderate, dump trailers get away from a guy quickly.

Nice set up there, always nice to have tools & equipment to make the job faster and easier

Be careful with loading it heavy behind the half ton truck. It'll pull ok, but stopping it in a hurry is a problem of it's own. Got to see one of those wrecks recently

Ace hardware here rents them $70 a day so don’t sell your services to cheap know your value.

watch your leaf springs. when dumping heavy loads my cousins picked up the back of his f250 and after replacing springs the 2nd time he was told by someplace I don't know where. they asked if he used a dump trailer and said that is typically what they see springs broken like that was dump trailer use and it had to do with geting picking up the truck like it does when dumping heavy loads. it it right or not I can't say but they did know or guess he had a dump trailer so I suspect there is something to it.

For mounting a winch I would make a bracket you can sliced a cradle mounted winch into so it would be removable.

Nice trailer. It seems to heavy for that truck if it’s squatting that much before being loaded.

yeah...
haphazardly loading and hauling that big of a trailer with that light of a truck can get sketchy real quick.

Eventually you'll figure out what works, but to speed up the process you can do this:
Use a tape measure to measure the height of the center of the wheel wells on the truck to the ground. Measure it unloaded to get the starting height.
After you've loaded the trailer, measure again to see how much its squating.
Pay attention to how the truck handles, and you'll figure out how much squat you want for good handling.

Then, as you load, put the load forwards or backwards as necessary to get to the desired amount of squatting.

If it's a half ton , air bags will help , somewhat

Gotta be careful with tight turns that you don't scrub the tires off the rims. And You might consider electric trailer brakes if not so equipped already.