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Back in Iowa when I was growing up all the farmers had single axle low boy trailers for picking up hay and general whatever use. How were these constructed? I would like one for my little chunk of land.
 
Most everything now is tandem axle, and especially if you are going to be doing any road hauling, I'd sure recommend a 2 axle to a single- they just tow so much better. And there are enough old ones around that you should be able to find one pretty reasonably priced.
 
I recently bought a used, 14 foot, 3,500 pound each double-axle, flat bed trailer with excellent tires on it for $1,250.00. It has like-new boards for the bed. I've used it to haul lots of hay, and it pulls very nicely in the field and on the road.

Tom in TN
 
I worked in an orchard when I was very young. The trailers they used were C-channel frames welded right onto one axle. No springs. Nice and low to load full peach crates onto. And they backed nicely - sometimes we had to back beside the unloading dock at the packing shed if a semi was loading out. I could put those trailers within an inch of the dock when I was 10 years old. Bet I couldn't do it today. . .
 
It sound to me your looking for something just
to pull behind your tractor, Off Road.. Here in
Pa. we call them farm Carts. Since I burn fire
wood & I use single axle trailer off road I need
alittle more clearance. My Lowest on is 16" off
the ground. 4" channel ire frame with a
cross member ever 16" I build them 50" wide &
8" long so they are at lest 4x8 inside, some
are 5x10 I"ve built, I use a straight axle &
it"s axle out of what ever I can find. Some are
a shortend house trailer axle. But 14.5 tires
aren"t easy find unless you have a supply. Some
of my wood wagons are built out of old Ford
truck Frames manure spreader frames. All of my
wagons/carts have heavy tires & I rank fire
wood on them & they carry a full cord when
loaded.. I have 10 of them two are Ball
hitch so I can pull them with the truck some
are only a PIN hitch I use with tractor only.
I always have a eye out to build another wood
wagon all are loaded & I don"t have a cart I can
today to haul anything unless I unload one? The
only one that"s empty is the Highway use only
trailer..

RLA
 
Anything like this
a162704.jpg
 
i just use a old truck bed, its sitting on a frame made out of 3 inch heavy gauge c channel iron a mobile home axle with lowboy rated tires is under it, nice and low, this old thing is around 30 years old and came on the place, to this day i cant break it, no mater how hard i try
 
Donahue was a popular trailer that was low to the ground and the wheels would slide out from under the deck to put the deck right on the ground for loading/unloading. As I recall most were pretty good sized.

They"re still making them. Not sure if it"s what you"re thinking of but just Google "Donahue Trailer" and you"ll get lot"s of pictures.
 
Seems like the frame went straight to the axle and the bed was maybe 18" inches off the ground. Probably 8x 16 deck. Not a highway trailer for a pickup. One farm I worked for would hook three or for together and stack big round bales on them. Then they were low enough you could throw small bales on them and not be starting 3 1/2 feet in the air like a deck over gooseneck. Thanks for the info got an axle and some steel today so I will start making what I think I want.
 
I have one just like your describing. I don't like dealing with the fenders sticking in the way so it doesn't get used anymore. The one I posted a picture of may be taller but you can stack more bales and brush on them. You can also hook a cable to a tree and unload the brush a lot faster. That's just my preference though.
 
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