OUCH!!!!! Talk about unexpected..

Anonymous-0 · Dec 15, 2009

Good thing we do our major Christmas shopping a year ahead of time....

Inspection time for the horse trailer and a small 1500 lb max weight trailer. WIFE made a deal for the horse trailer and told me when it was time to pick it up. The inspection was good for two more years and the price was OK.... FF to this week. Brakes (surge) weren't working just right and it wouldn't pass inspection. Turned out needing complete brake sets, tongue torn apart and cleaned yada yada and it passed inspection. Small trailer needed a couple things along with new lights (trailer lights catch he!! around here :roll: .

1000 bucks later, I have two trailers that I can drive on the road for 2 more years.....

Done now....

Dave

keh · Dec 15, 2009

Well, if I remember your previous discussions about trailers and towing vehicles correctly the government allows fairly large trailers to be pulled by relatively small cars, so I guess they want the trailers to be in as good a shape as possible since they are allowing the laws of physics to be pushed to the limits. Were you going to be using the trailer with the pipe frame you were thing of making on the road? Do they allow homemade trailers on the road there? My observation of homemade trailers here is that they are usually overbuilt if anything and are much stronger that commercial trailers. (Talking about small trailers, not large goosenecks or backhoe trailers).

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Dec 15, 2009

The home-made trailer wouldn't be licensed. Can do on the road as long as I pull it with my tractor and the tractor is licensed as a farm vehicle.

The little homebuilt trailer is a lot more interesting now because it will save my other small road ready one a lot of wear/tear.

Dave

keh · Dec 15, 2009

Ok. Looks lie you are following my rules for building a trailer, which is to have most of the materials on hand, free. You did say you had the axle, didn't you?

KEH

paul · Dec 15, 2009

Here in MN you can get by with an ag trailer without any licence or inspections. But you gotta have ag stuff on it, no refrigirator or moving day or sproting goods stuff...

I'm going to get into inspections here, just got a farm truck, so will be interesting how rugged that gets.

All it takes is money, right?

--->Paul

Too Far Gone · Dec 15, 2009

Law doesnt inspect Mo trailers,just go buy a license,like $26 for a 3 year tag,and its up to you to keep the lights and all working.

Owen Aaland · Dec 15, 2009

(quoted from post at 11:31:33 12/15/09) Here in MN you can get by with an ag trailer without any licence or inspections. But you gotta have ag stuff on it, no refrigirator or moving day or sproting goods stuff...

I'm going to get into inspections here, just got a farm truck, so will be interesting how rugged that gets.

All it takes is money, right?

--->Paul

Minnesota got rid of the two year farm inspection and the Minnesota annual inspection a couple of years ago. All trucks and equipment needing inspection must now pass the same standards as the Federal inspection.

paul · Dec 15, 2009

Fedral DOT is having a bigger infuence on the states all the time, it'll show up on trucks in your area too soon I bet.

Frankly the states are short on tax income, and now realize they are missing out on fees & taxes by allowing exemptions. Set up inspections, then you can write tickets for not complying on almost every pull-over in addition to the inspection fees every year or 3. It's gonna get interesting.....

--->Paul

INCase · Dec 15, 2009

If I heard right. I think Indiana may have laid off about 1/2 of our DOT inspectors due to budget cuts. If I heard right that will give us less than 1 for every 2 counties.

souNdguy · Dec 15, 2009

because of horses.. i usually have to replace 1-2 sets of lamps per year.. heck.. my flatbed just got new lamps and needs em again.. I don't know why a horse who has an open pasture has to stand and eat around every obstacle in it?

soundguy

rhouston · Dec 15, 2009

At least you do not have to deal with someone complaining that your horses are doing their "business" on the property line! There was a legal fight between a farmer and a homeowner around here about that. I've watched the horses in question do just that! My kids and I joke about it every time we see the horses. I wonder just what the homeowner did to tick the horses off like that. They do back right up to the fence and let go! Oh and the horses were there decades before the current homeowner in fact I cannot remember a time when there were not horses in that field.

Leland2 · Dec 15, 2009

when it comes to lights now just 1 word LED's

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Dec 15, 2009

(quoted from post at 17:49:33 12/15/09) when it comes to lights now just 1 word LED's

EDs are great unless they are on a trailer where they get broken a lot. then they get kind of expensive.

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