This Trailer is Overkill?

[HHR]

Spotted a new addition to our local municipality. They are using this JLG drop deck to transport a small (48-54") zero turn mower. I am pretty sure that these run around $10K. None of the private lawn service companies have anything like this so I assume that it is being used as dual purpose trailer?

 

[crazyal]

I wonder if their insurer sent them a letter saying that people were injured while unloading mowers from trailers and they wouldn't cover them unless they upgraded. I remember seeing drill presses that were cut up because they didn't have the latest guards and the insurance companies were threatening to drop them unless they got rid of them.

 

[56FordGuy]

I would think they may have a scissor lift that they haul with the trailer, also. At least, I would hope so! Seems like a mighty fancy trailer for a mower.

 

[two_bit_score]

Spotted a new addition to our local municipality. They are using this JLG drop deck to transport a small (48-54") zero turn mower. I am pretty sure that these run around $10K. None of the private lawn service companies have anything like this so I assume that it is being used as dual purpose trailer?

Tax money. That's the answer.

 

[Scooby074]

I wonder if their insurer sent them a letter saying that people were injured while unloading mowers from trailers and they wouldn't cover them unless they upgraded. I remember seeing drill presses that were cut up because they didn't have the latest guards and the insurance companies were threatening to drop them unless they got rid of them.

Yep. Safer alternative. Look at all the old tablesaws getting destroyed only to be replaced by a Sawstop. Insurance companies love this stuff.

 

[Rustyiron]

Tax money. That's the answer.

+1
And if for the insurance issue, if it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need lawyers!!

 

[CompactTractorFan]

+1
And if for the insurance issue, if it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need lawyers!!

Tax money. That's the answer.

It's not their money...so yeah...

Seems like they could get by with a 6'x12' single axle utility trailer...:thumbsup:

 

[Skyco]

I wonder if their insurer sent them a letter saying that people were injured while unloading mowers from trailers and they wouldn't cover them unless they upgraded. I remember seeing drill presses that were cut up because they didn't have the latest guards and the insurance companies were threatening to drop them unless they got rid of them.

Yeah and how long will it be before a city worker lowers that trailer onto his foot....:laughing:

I know of a telephone company that scrapped a bunch of miscellaneous trailers because they didn't have weigh rating plates on them. Rather than getting plates from the manufacturer or a certified engineer they scrapped them, and I mean scrapped them, employees couldn't have them, no one could buy them, they were taken to the scrap yard and photographs of them being cut up were required.:confused2:

 

[Bird]

Folks are making a lot of "assumptions" here that may . . . or may not . . . be close to right.:laughing: I know government organizations waste a lot of money, but then a lot of other companies do, too. I think it would be interesting if the OP asked the proper city department why they have that particular kind of trailer. Sure, they could use a cheaper trailer for the ZTR, but if they have to have that kind of trailer for some other piece of equipment, why not a dual use instead of also buying a cheaper trailer for the ZTR?

 

[HHR]

The next time I see the city maintenance manager I will ask him about the trailer and it's alternative uses.