Car hauler trailers

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JDMopar said:
he got it and let his kid use it for hauling his junk instead of my friend. Evidently, the kid can’t drive for sheite!
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This is my trailer, it was cheap and has done what I needed it to do. A homemade job that has shortened mobile home axles, and new wood when I purchased it. It's heavy, but also heavy duty.

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It's capable of hauling a car, but it's better for a Bobcat. I loaned it to my stepson, and he and his father have managed to rip off the jack, and mangle the taillights and wiring. They replaced the jack, but I get to do the wiring. I'll upgrade to a six pole connector, no more adapter. Right now it's covered with stuff from the stepsons shed he moved crap out of. Someday I'll get it back.
 
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diymirage said:
sure, but do they get parked all winter like my trailer light?

and are they build with the same gauge material for the sides?
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Thousands of semi trailers are more or less permanently parked for storage.

As someone who pulls them for a living: since the goal is the lightest weight, they are built as flimsy as structurally possible. (Seriously: if the builders could, they'd use aluminum foil sides.) Sides are sometimes fiberglass, more often sheetmetal with vertical supports about every foot. Roofs are translucent fiberglass-type material or sheetmetal.
 
Scamp Rhonda said:
I have a question here, there's a lot of old travel trailers out there that people would pay you to take away. Are their frames strong enough to turn into a car trailer?
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Yes, I have seen it done. Just beware of the REALLY old ones, that might use funky wheels, axles, and brakes. Check the axle weights before buying, because some (especially "lightweights": Spree, Jayco Jay Feather, Lance) use incredibly-undersized axles for the size. (Think: 13" wheels on a 26' trailer.)
 
Uhaul!

can’t afford a trailer these days and it gets the job done.

Had to bend down the inner lip of the ramps with a pipe wrench to clear the 33x21.50r15s



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Trailer prices are nuts.I paid 1200 for mine and added led lights.i could go on a nice vacation if I sold it now

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Hopefully this will be sold tomorrow
2016 Diamond Cargo 8.5x28
heavy Duty 7000lbs axles
***Sold***

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24’ enclosed. Only issues with my trailer these days are tires. Had another one bulge out on the sidewalls. I’m about ready to go with light truck tires. Last June I went through three tires coming back from Washington state.
 
dart4forte said:
24’ enclosed. Only issues with my trailer these days are tires. Had another one bulge out on the sidewalls. I’m about ready to go with light truck tires. Last June I went through three tires coming back from Washington state.
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LT's on my open . I try to do the speed limit, hard to do in california, don't wanna get stopped with truck tires. Keep em real hard (inflated) too.
 
we have a couple older trailers. open 22ft featherlight ( you forget its back there ) and a 24ft enclosed Hallmark ( pulls great just Heavy ).
the featherlight I have drug all kinds of crap home with pulling it behind one of my Dakotas. the enclosed does a lot better with a bigger truck.
wouldn't let go of either as I can replace one for what we paid for both. the enclosed doubles as my storage shed everything from the tractor to cars sit in it.
 
33IMP said:
LT's on my open . I try to do the speed limit, hard to do in california, don't wanna get stopped with truck tires. Keep em real hard (inflated) too.
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DOT allows truck tires on trailer as long as they are de-rated properly for load ratings. IIRC it's something along the line of 80% of posted load rating

Most trailer tires, especially the 205/75/15's are total trash.
 
crackedback said:
DOT allows truck tires on trailer as long as they are de-rated properly for load ratings. IIRC it's something along the line of 80% of posted load rating

Most trailer tires, especially the 205/75/15's are total trash.
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I bought two extra wheels when I bought my trailer and it came with one spare. So now I have 3. I usually don’t tow without 2 of them with me.
 
TT5.9mag said:
I bought two extra wheels when I bought my trailer and it came with one spare. So now I have 3. I usually don’t tow without 2 of them with me.
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I had one spare wheel w/tire and carries 2-3 extra tires with me... when one blows, guaranteed, the other one on same side is a goner!
 
LocuMob said:
This is my trailer, it was cheap and has done what I needed it to do. A homemade job that has shortened mobile home axles, and new wood when I purchased it. It's heavy, but also heavy duty.

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It's capable of hauling a car, but it's better for a Bobcat. I loaned it to my stepson, and he and his father have managed to rip off the jack, and mangle the taillights and wiring. They replaced the jack, but I get to do the wiring. I'll upgrade to a six pole connector, no more adapter. Right now it's covered with stuff from the stepsons shed he moved crap out of. Someday I'll get it back.
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I think I know who would be on my "do not loan list" now.
 
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