Equipment Trailer Questions

[Shelby Griggs]

A buddy of mine who has a 99 Quad SB with 5 speed is looking to get an equipment trailer and a small Case crawler and possibly a back hoe to do some work on his property. Says that either the crawler or back hoe are about 16K. He is looking for suggestions on a trailer to buy and is leaning toward a dual wheel dual axle tilt bed with a goose neck, probably something rated around 20K. Anybody have any suggestions? Personally, I think he will be pretty overloaded on a 2500, as he will be getting in the 25K range or thereabouts.



He is not a member, but knows a fair amount about the Rams with the Cummins power, this is his second one, the other was a 94. If I could only convince him to join the TDR.



TIA



Shelby

 

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Work him, Shelby... work him!

 

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shelby



his truck will do fine with that load. i've had 300 bales on a 30' tandem dually. hay and trailer weighed in at about 30k. if he buys a trailer with a beaver tail he doesn't have to get a tilt. mine has a 5' beaver tail with ramps that fold up and make the deck level all the way back. as far as brands, i suggest either a road king,or a dressen. in my travels i think that the titans are kind of wimpy if you plan on over loading them. i would get a trailer with tandem duals. gvw20k. the triple axle trailers bind pretty bad when turned tight.



jim

 

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Econoline.com has some nice tilt's. My 14k Road King beaver tail hangs kind of low in the back. I drag my "butt" on a regular basis. If your going to be taking equipment on a job site, that and length would be my concern. Going with the tandem, you want hydraulic over vacuum brakes but I think that is the standard?