Re: What type and size trailer?

Posted by VaTom on September 01, 2004 at 10:57:40 from (64.4.122.254):

In Reply to: Re: What type and size trailer? posted by T_Bone on September 01, 2004 at 08:19:21:

OK, T_Bone,

You win. LMAO! Yeah, my hardware's a little off center. But truck and trailer only cost $7850 total. And that was with every option on the truck. Trailer ($350 at auction) needed some help.

The tri I had was a homemade job. Had a massive V tongue sticking out 8' from the bed, 6" I beams. Took a serious tongue jack, and that was with the trailer empty. You understand trailers a whole lot better than I do, or pretty much anybody, far as I can tell. These 3 axles were all floating such that it would have been difficult for them to lever up the pintle ring.

Now I've gotta visit it to take a close look at how it was put together. When I returned it, after borrowing it for 3 yrs, the owner headed me off to the back of his property. I didn't see anything that looked like a road. We were pushing down 3" tulip poplars and oaks that'd grown up since anybody had driven back there. Kinda fun. That's what these trucks were really made for.

I've had more trouble with small 2 axle trailers picking up a light truck when I drove onto the trailer. Gotta get that ramp support just right.

Something else that works extremely well is a rotating pintle hook. Allows the trailer to be in a different plane. At 50' long (truck+trailer), that's a very good possibility.

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