Couple more trailer mods

Fawteen · Dec 1, 2010

Jacks on the rear to keep the load off the hitch when running heavy items up the ramps. Prevents "trailer surfing".

A receiver for my 4500# portable Ramsay winch. Wicked handy for winching dead equipment or implements up on the trailer. Quick connect pigtail hangs out of the back of the truck.

Butch (PA) · Dec 1, 2010

I'm envious of youse guys that can do that kind of stuff.

Stretch · Dec 1, 2010

Got a different setup for my winch but I really need them jacks. Be a lot more convenient than hunks of 6x6...

Fawteen · Dec 1, 2010

Hadda mount the winch up high like that to keep from dragging the line over the rails on the trailer.

My previous trailer had the winch mount right down on the hitch and a fairlead over the lip of the trailer frame.

GordoSD · Dec 1, 2010

Don't know what kind of loads you haul, but that sure isn't a 10,000 lb hitch and ball.

Gordo

Ken Macfarlane · Dec 1, 2010

You're right, it looks like my 16,000 lb hitch on a trailer I have. The ball mount not so much.

The Red · Dec 1, 2010

I like that winch settup!

Spook · Dec 1, 2010

I need something like that winch mount. I have a 9K winch, but that winch mount is the tiits. I need those rear outriggers also.

ericlb · Dec 1, 2010

thats about the most usable trailer ive seen its ready for almost anything, great job fawteen, i sure could have used that winch yesterday when i loaded up a dead 1940 9n on my trailer, i also might steal your idea on the stock racks too lol

Fawteen · Dec 1, 2010

4500# winch (straight pull @ full wrap).

GOOD electric brakes on both axles, and new tires (NOT mobile home crap). 2-5/16 ball, factory installed receiver.

I routinely haul my JD750 Compact with a backhoe on it, maybe 3000 or 3500 pounds max. Also haul my F14, and have hauled one small car.

I'm adventurous, but I ain't stupid.

MeanGene1 · Dec 1, 2010

I have a similar winch setup on my Zieman, except mine's completely removable. I used two recievers mounted vertically to accept the posts, so the whole thing can come off, but it still clears the front of the deck. Two bad things about the permanent high mount, gets in the way to step through, and you can't let the tailgate down. I also have a big vise that had a broken base, so I welded a plate to the bottom, and then some heavy square tube for a mount into a reciever- so I can quick-attach it to a trailer, or any reciever hitch

Fawteen · Dec 1, 2010

Tailgate [i:654c4848f0]just[/i:654c4848f0] clears on mine, as long as the rig is straight. If the trailer is cocked a little, the vinyl lip on the tailgate hits the winch mount.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 1, 2010

The hitch is only as strong as the weakest part. That is a light duty ball mount which means it's also a light duty ball. The heavy duty 2 5/16" balls have an 1 1/4" shank and the ball mount is a lot thicker also. That is a nice trailer but would look a whole lot better with some paint on it. Dave

Fawteen · Dec 1, 2010

Yup, gotta do something about that some day.

Got a heckuva deal on the trailer for just that reason. Electrostatic paintjob failed bigtime, it was sitting on the lot with the paint rolling off it in sheets.

Dealer was gonna send it back, I got a $2500 trailer for $1900 out the door including sales tax. Been gonna paint it since the day I brought it home...

Anonymous-0 · Dec 1, 2010

I've seen a few guys put gravel guard and even the spray on box liner on the front of the trailer and the fenders. It's not as smooth as paint but stays on. I have to get my trailer sandblasted and repainted too. Dave

rustyj14 · Dec 1, 2010

If you hauled with that hitch set-up, here in PA. and the law saw it--you'd be settin on the road-side, reading a big, fat, ticket!
Whew! For anything heavier than a small row boat, they require a hitch like the Reese, as used for travel trailers. for heavy equipment, they require beefier hitches. And also, anti-sway stuff, too.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 2, 2010

Are you talking about an equalizer hitch? They are used on a lot on RV trailers to level the trailer out. They do allow a lighter vehicle to pull a bigger trailer but look how many contractors are hauling around bobcats and other equipment without equalizer hitches. If you have a hitch rated for the trailer you're pulling and within the tow vehicles capacity, I've never heard it is mandatory to have an equalizer hitch. Dave

Oldmax · Dec 2, 2010

This my trailer Mod's Jacke are from truck camper "cut down" Winch is home brew made from parts collected over the years I thank I had about $70 in it. but it works. if had to do over would just use a pipe with pin threw it it doesn't have to touch ground just keep trailer from surfing truck.

Fawteen · Dec 2, 2010

Nice!

How's the clutch work on that gas engine winch?

Oldmax · Dec 2, 2010

It is a Hyd driven winch. Engine drives a Hyd pump to a Control Valve that drives a Hyd Motor that drives winch Is slow but works well.

Oldmax · Dec 2, 2010

Check your hitch it is only good for max rating if you use a equlizer hitch. only about half if you are not using one. A 10,000 pull 1000 hitch weight hitch is only good for about 6,000 and 650 hitch weight without equlizer hitch. also check rating on top of ball some cheap balls don't have the rating that you need.

Oldmax · Dec 2, 2010

Also the manufacture of some trucks tell you to use a equlizer hitch if over a given amount some as low as 3,000.

dbernie · Dec 3, 2010

So anyway--
Do those drop down outriggers hold 'er pretty steady for ya?
Thinkin' about a similar thing, but with a couple cheap bottle jacks incorporated in it. Think it'd be worth the trouble, or do them dropdowns work alright for ya?

Fawteen · Dec 3, 2010

Drop-downs work fine. Only problem is I'm limited
in drop-down length by the height of the rails on
the trailer, and they'd be better if they were 4"
longer.

On my previous trailer that didn't have the rails,
I had drop downs with multiple holes in them so I
could set them to several different lengths.

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