Towing a lawn trailer on the road

Leaf season is just a couple months away and I get the feeling I'll be getting them up for someone else a couple miles away this year too. I'd like to be able to tow my trailer vac over there but of course it's not designed for road towing. Any ideas, cheap ideas, on ways to make it road towable? It's like the one pictured above. Speeds would be 50mph or less and distance about 3 miles. I don't know if I can get road towable wheels/tires and bearings that would fit this axle or not. Also not sure if it'd need springs or not.

There's not enough room on the trailer for the mower and this. My neighbor provided the idea of towing this behind the trailer that the mower is on--that's what he does with his. But his is custom built trailer vac made using the springs, axle and wheels from a 40" x 48" Harbor Freight trailer and the blower came from an old vac of some sort.
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3 miles is not that far. 50 mph is fast for that thing with the short tongue and all the rest. No springs means bounce as does light weight which it surely is. Bounce means loss of control and can result in a flip. In TX. if it's on the highway, unless it has a slow vehicle decal and usually of farm in nature, you need a state tag hanging on it.
 
Three miles? Drive the mower and pull the trailer over there! Do you have any idea how many miles I put on tractors and implements on the road? Granted it's a bigger machine, but you would be just as safe wih a car following you. If a car comes pull in the ditch. Heck, I put more miles on my mower making a couple of passes around the bull pen electric fence.
 
Id think you could tow it but that be well greased and 10mph... I've seen the aftermath of pulling a log splitter with the same bearings 20miles at 35mph, destroyed the bearings and throw a tire. Different distance be something about those setups
 

Perhaps a small utility trailer. Not too expensive and if need be you could do other jobs to pay for it. Just a thought
 
Two trips with the trailer, easiest.

I was wondering if 2 trailers is legal in your area, doesn't look like it.

Tow it over with a SMV sign and flashers on, 15 mph.

Paul
 
Can you drive the mower to the site pulling the leaf vac behind the mower? Top speed of the mower is between 5 and 10 MPH? If it can not be towed, I'd make two trips with the highway trailer and factor the extra road time into the cost of the job.
 
3 miles I have driven a riding lawn mower 3 time that distance many many times. So either load it up on a trailer or drive the lawn mower to the job
 
50 MPH!!!

No way.

The tires are not designed for it nor are the wheel bushings.

Make two trips.

Dean
 
To make it towable behind a car or truck it would take an different axle, wheels and tires plus a State tag. Might be cheaper to trade your trailer for a longer trailer. You would most likely find a longer trailer more useful than the shorter one in the long run. Towing something that is narrow enough to be out of sight behind a vehicle is not really a good idea. I have done it and then made a personal rule that if I can not see it out the back it gets hauled on something that I can see.
 
I have an Agri-fab like yours. I notice where your 8 inch hose connects to the fan is pulling away like mine did. I took metal screws and fender washers and pulled mine back to where it belongs.

No way tow this, too top heavy, lawn cart wheels and bushings. Get a 6 pk and have Bubba drive your mower it to your neighbors.

I don't wait for all my leafs to fall, I do it in about 4 times. So if you pick up leafs the way I do, you will be moving it back and forth about 4 times.
 
In Iowa it's only legal if the first trailer is a gooseneck. Pulling tandem bumper hitch trailers is against the law in Iowa.
 
Only 3 miles away???

Drive the mower with it hooked on the back with a SMV sign hanging on the back of trailer. If you mower goes 6 mph hour you will still be there in a half hour. Do it when the traffic volume is down. like after 9 in the morning and before 4 in the afternoon or in the AM on a weekend.

Make two trips with your road trailer.
 
I have an identical trailer to the one in the picture, without the vacuum, and I wouldn't tow it behind a truck. Mine has a tag on it that says "Not for road use". Another weak point on that trailer, in addition to the bearings, is the flimsy tongue. It will twist easily - I've turned mine over several times. They're built for slow speed, flat terrain.
 
a problem we all run into sooner or later......
make two trips, or get a bigger trailer.

or get a truck...when I needed my 4-wheeler and my garden tractor at my camp and didn't want to haul my big trailer....
drive one onto the little trailer, move the ramps onto the trailer bed to the tailgate, drive from trailer up into truck..load the other one on the trailer...easy...no big inclines to master.
 
Drive the whole rig over with a friend in a "Follow ME" truck with blink blink lights. Got ya covered! You can be a mini "wide load".
 

Maybe a old snowmobile trailer, or something light weight with bearings. I found a old fold up trailer at the scrap yard I use with my quad, maybe similar.
 
Just thinking aloud....

Could you put this little trailer in the back of your truck (assuming you are using a truck) somehow (back into a ditch, ramps?), and then put the mower on your trailer?

Just a thought?
 
I'd have a whole lot fewer problems if I put this much thought in to things ahead of time. LOL
 
Those tires aren't rated at 50 MPH with or without weight. You don't have wheel bearings either. Have a pickup with a bed? It is what it is.

That reminds me of something that I saw today. A small SUV that had one of those racks that one can buy to stick in its trailer hitch receiver for extra hauling behind the rear bumper. The SUV was off to the side of the road with the driver standing out back wondering what he was going to do about the well loaded rack that obviously broke and was being dragged like a trailer with no tires. I see those behind vehicles all of the time, but the first time I saw that. That guy's day was ruined.

Good luck.

Mark
 

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