mine is ribbed alum. out of a fruehoff trsailer, never do anything to it .
My dream floor.
mine is ribbed alum. out of a fruehoff trsailer, never do anything to it .
A little on the heavy side !My dream floor.
you must be like REALLY good buddies. Every single time I let a friend take this trailer out (three times total) something came back messed up ......so now I don't even let my relatives use it.
1. The first time it came back with wrecked fender. the excuse "so sorry, I am not used to driving with a trailer and I forgot to turn wide" I ended up footing the bill to fix it because he wanted to have a back woods hillbilly friend of his take it (and probably use it) and weld on a new fender. HOW ABOUT NO, so I just fixed it myself.
2. The second time one of the ramps came back messed up and one of the battery cables for the winch was melted and of course no one saw anything and no one knows anything....I got the blank stare like "ramp, what's that!?!?!" "the cable was like that" (yea right)
3. The third time it came back and the spare tire was missing .......again no one saw anything, no one knows anything, "what's a tire".... I ended up having to replace it, out of my own pocket.
So now I just say NO....if they think I am an *** ...oh well, but no one takes it out of my sight. LOL
It happens probably more than folks realize. They came back today and agreed to pay for the parts to fix it. He admitted that he had the brake controller in his truck set too tight and locked the brakes up really hard in traffic to avoid rear ending the vehicle in front of him (following too close for the load he had on and not watching what he was doing). I suspect the weight of the load, along with hard locking of the brakes, probably snapped that weld. I checked the welds on the other 3 spindles and they look like crap. I never noticed them before until I looked today. I'll be grinding/cleaning that mess up and properly re-welding them when I go to fix this.I understand the wheel completely missing. Two different occasions I've lost a complete wheel and brake assembly. 1 was on a three axle stock trailer in a blizzard in Montana. I pulled into a rest area to check the horses and discovered one wheel assembly Missing. I had a come along with me so I come alonged the axle up and drove on in to Cheyenne Wyoming. The trailer place there was a half hour from closing but they pulled truck and trailer into the building and repaired and replaced what needed to be and charge me $75. I bought them beer and pizza also. The second time was a tandem dual gooseneck I went to Carlsbad New Mexico to pick up salt 150 mile trip one way. I got there walked around the trailer and the back duels on the passenger side were gone I never felt anything. I called the police and the highway patrol to find out if they've been an accident involving the wheels and assembly. They were never found I looked in the canyons along the highway I looked everywhere for 3 days an never found them. So I can see why they didn't know it had come off.
I'm with you tho never loan your trailer.
Yep. They probably figured IF they didn't, they'd not be welcome back here....and they'd be correct.At least they offered to pay.
UPDATE: They decided NOT to pay for the damage as they feel it ”wasn’t their fault” because the trailer was “faulty”. Also, I think I forgot to mention that the spare tire/wheel ended up “missing” on this trip, but they didn’t know anything about that either.At least they offered to pay.
NOPE...NEVER again. Horse's *** or not, life or death or not....it ain't leaving my shop unless I'm pulling it with MY truck. I'm done!!
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Have told my son in law that when he told me that he didn't care if it had a current tag or not.Some guy wanted to rent mine awhile back. I don't really know him. I asked him "You have about 2500 bucks for a cash deposit?"
THAT ended THAT!!
You made the right choice, regardless of quality, it got damaged when it was in their care and control.UPDATE: They decided NOT to pay for the damage as they feel it ”wasn’t their fault” because the trailer was “faulty”. Also, I think I forgot to mention that the spare tire/wheel ended up “missing” on this trip, but they didn’t know anything about that either.
FABO folks, I’m sorry, but I completely “lost it” after that. I told em to stay to F off my property and don’t ever come back here or ask me for ANYTHING, including the time of day, EVER again.
I don’t care who, or what, it is, this trailer will NEVER be lent out again...no matter what the situation. Friggin’ idiots.