Can you daisychain tippers/trailers together?

[Deathstar]

I'm sure you used to be able to have multiple trailers all hooked up behind one vehicle, and I think I remember the tipper with the flexible front axis (K Agroliner) being usable for that.

Is it still possibly? I'm horrible at maneuvering that thing so I don't know whether I just suck or if you're not able to at all.

[DukaSoft]

Yes it is

[Trego]

'so I don't know whether I just suck'


Yeah you got it :)

[Waggy]

Anybody knows which tippers will chain together and which won't, and what is the maximum limit of tippers chained together?

[Randox]

I think there is only one in this game that can do it. Can't remember the name, but it's green with wheels (2 on each end), probably the second or third option.

Do note that the way these trailers work, they'll follow your path nearly perfectly (so they'll corner really well), but each trailer is the equivalent of backing up two normal trailers hitched together(it's backwards to a normal trailer). Best way to attach them I've found is to bring a single trailers past the one you want to hitch to so that you can stop a short distance away, and you need a very minimal turn to hitch. Avoid all but the smallest turns, and don't be afraid to pull forward a bit to straighten things out. To add more trailers, keep dragging a single trialer to the front of the line and backing it on. Backing up more than one of these trailers hitched together is so difficult as to be functionally impossible.

In terms of number, you are limited only by the power of your tractor. To give you a starting point, my Labourghini tractor stuggled to tow two of them up anything but the most mild slope with the trailers at 60% full. If you plan on towing two or more of them fully loaded, I'd be looking at using a tractor with at least 200hp.

EDIT: I think you can do it with the first trailer as well (dumps to the side and has a hitch), but the way that tailer works, they'll cut corners on you where the second trailer will not (well, a lot less).

[Deathstar]

It's the Kroeger Agroliner, as mentioned in the OP. I managed to get two of them connected now and bought a more powerful Ursus tractor to pull them and, when fully loaded, it has some serious issues uphill. Wouldn't advise more than two unless you got one of those halftrack machines.

[Waggy]

I found out the Fliegl Bull (TMK 266 BULL) can also be daisy chained.

The problem with these three smaller tippers is that they can't be towed by anything more powerful than the Deutz 7250 which only has 263hp.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=336044912

[LoneGunman]

Yeah, I've used the first two (the cheapest and the level up which has the front wheels that turn) and they chain up but you need more tractor to pull those. The two lowest end ones are fine for the most part (I think was I was averaging 5 kph going uphill with two attached without cargo) but add cargo or try to use lower end/weaker tractors with the larger containers and I think you'll be unable to go uphilll ever again. :)

Steering isn't that big a deal as long as you understand you're not going to go in reverse for very long without bunching up.

[Yippie21]

Cool, I didn't know the Fliegl Bull would chain. I run the little green ones chained (4) and my tip for hooking them up... pull just past tipper with new one with ass end slightly out. Unhook new one from tractor and drive around to the rear at 90 degrees and nudge the rear of the trailer over , either with front or back of tractor, though the front tends to go underneath..

Once you shooch the rear over close to the red hitch of the one you want to hook to, then use the tractor to nudge the trailer back. ( for new guys, the hitch of the #2 trailer MUST be right at the rear and center of the new one. Can be at angle, that doesn't matter, but must point to middle of the back.

Tractor works great for nudging. I wish I'd thougth of this last year but for some reason I didn't think of it.

[Tiger]

why not just use one of the larger trailers and take 1 ? they will add bigger ones via mod im sure

[LoneGunman]

They go up pretty fast in terms of capacity. The smallest one is like 8000 but the next one up (HKD?) is 21000 (almost three smaller ones). I ended up using the smaller ones as local collectors (for unloading the harvesters and bringing the crop back to the silo) and the larger ones as transport from the silo to wherever I'm delivering.

[DJUltrakiller]

I managed to hook up the Bergmann tipper (2nd last) with 2 Fliegl TMK 266's for my biogas chaff harvesting operation. I'm sure that even a 3rd Fliegl could be added but I just lose my ♥♥♥♥ when the tippers start forming a zig zag line reversing towards the 3rd TMK 266 (substitute with a normal Fliegl unless you are doing chaff farming for biogas $$$)

My daisy chain could carry nearly 120 tonnes, but the last tractor (the Case articulated tank) shows signs of struggling when going on the smallest hill with those fully loaded.

About connecting them, what I'm going to try is to pull the daisy chain on a straight line and add to them one by one from the front rather than from the back. AFAIK this is what is most successful (when I will afford a new Fliegl) as Randox said.

http://i.imgur.com/eQBZ8oo.png
http://i.imgur.com/eHWCZ87.png

[Anime Exterminatus]

I have found on the wiki the bartner E, the argoliner, the TMK bull, and the Krampe big body, can all be chained.

[RedMeat]

I am using the large red one (ball hitch) with 2 bulls. I use my forage harvester to pull it since it has over 400 HP (and apparently a ball hitch!) Seems to work fine.