Your towing rigs and trailers

[Diamondpilot]

Any of you guys have smaller compacts you tow with lighter weight single axle trailers?

I just bought an LS J2023H and have been looking around at trailers...there are tons of single axle trailers for sale in my area for short money, GVWR of 3000# or so. The tractor weighs 1565 pounds according to the LS website (not sure if that counts the FEL or not?) so Im thinking it would be ok. I'd only really use it to bring it to the dealership when required, so it wouldnt be too often...thoughts?

You are going to be over 2000# with the loader. Add a implement to the 3 point and you are at 2500#

It can be done on a single axle but balance of the load is critical. Also a tractor is a load that is top heavy. A blown tire and things get interesting quickly.

Most small trucks can tow 5000# so a light weight 16' tandem trailer is what you need. Most come in at under 1500#.

Chris

 

[3930dave]

Hauled a couple loads of trees I took down the other day, then picked up 4 yards of topsoil for my moms raised bed gardens...her grandson helped

Big load of soil ? What load ?

Nicely done - truck and trailer looking good !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Any of you guys have smaller compacts you tow with lighter weight single axle trailers?

I just bought an LS J2023H and have been looking around at trailers...there are tons of single axle trailers for sale in my area for short money, GVWR of 3000# or so. The tractor weighs 1565 pounds according to the LS website (not sure if that counts the FEL or not?) so Im thinking it would be ok. I'd only really use it to bring it to the dealership when required, so it wouldnt be too often...thoughts?

Go with Chris's suggestion - checkout small tandem axle trailers.

W/O going to a custom build (why I asked ultrarunner for pics on the trailer he just described), it's difficult to get a high capacity single axle trailers. (You have to subtract the trailer weight from the GVWR to get the load capacity).

Rgds, D.

 

[ultrarunner]

Any pics UR ? That sounds like a neat/capable trailer.

Rgds, D.

I was looking last night... right now the trailer is about 600 miles from where I am.

It has two wide rails 10' long, a drop axle and it also tilts... which is very easy with a single axle because the axle is the hinge pivot point.

In practice, I can back up to a residential curb cut and load by simply driving on... no ramps or tilt needed.

Has 15" 10 ply tires with tubes and no springs.... always carried an air tank because tire air pressure was adjusted depending on load... unladen would be around 20 psi

The GT40 was a challenge back in the 70's because it had extremely low clearance... we bolted 2 x 14 boards to the rails to get enoough clearance and it was still close...

If anyone every visited the SF Import Auto Show as it was called back then... it was shown there many times...

We would go to the shows with a very expensive car and an old trailer towed by a station wagon... some of the other exhibitors would have trailers and tow vehicles worth many times the car they were showing.

Still remember a few that towed their show cars with Cadillac Eldorado's back in the 70's

NO ONE had a Diesel Pickup... maybe a Ford XLT Camper Special

 

[3930dave]

I was looking last night... right now the trailer is about 600 miles from where I am.

It has two wide rails 10' long, a drop axle and it also tilts... which is very easy with a single axle because the axle is the hinge pivot point.

In practice, I can back up to a residential curb cut and load by simply driving on... no ramps or tilt needed.

Has 15" 10 ply tires with tubes and no springs.... always carried an air tank because tire air pressure was adjusted depending on load... unladen would be around 20 psi

The GT40 was a challenge back in the 70's because it had extremely low clearance... we bolted 2 x 14 boards to the rails to get enoough clearance and it was still close...

If anyone every visited the SF Import Auto Show as it was called back then... it was shown there many times...

We would go to the shows with a very expensive car and an old trailer towed by a station wagon... some of the other exhibitors would have trailers and tow vehicles worth many times the car they were showing.

Still remember a few that towed their show cars with Cadillac Eldorado's back in the 70's

NO ONE had a Diesel Pickup... maybe a Ford XLT Camper Special

Nice - no shackles to wear out, or springs to break. The original air suspension.... :thumbsup:

I know what you mean about single axle being nice for tilt like that.... I've seen a few industrial trailers done that way, for small dual roller pavement machines (steam roller, for lack of a better name) - they work great. Built well, a simple design like that could probably outlive most of us.

If memory serves (?), the last of the full-frame Caddys were tow rated around 10,000#. We had to get into recent year's Truk Spec Wars, for pickups to do better than that !

I can picture that GT40 being tricky !

No pics, next relevant roadtrip perhaps.... I'd like to see this classic trailer, with a cool history....

Rgds, D.

 

[94BULLITT]

I was looking last night... right now the trailer is about 600 miles from where I am.

It has two wide rails 10' long, a drop axle and it also tilts... which is very easy with a single axle because the axle is the hinge pivot point.

In practice, I can back up to a residential curb cut and load by simply driving on... no ramps or tilt needed.

Has 15" 10 ply tires with tubes and no springs.... always carried an air tank because tire air pressure was adjusted depending on load... unladen would be around 20 psi

The GT40 was a challenge back in the 70's because it had extremely low clearance... we bolted 2 x 14 boards to the rails to get enoough clearance and it was still close...

If anyone every visited the SF Import Auto Show as it was called back then... it was shown there many times...

We would go to the shows with a very expensive car and an old trailer towed by a station wagon... some of the other exhibitors would have trailers and tow vehicles worth many times the car they were showing.

Still remember a few that towed their show cars with Cadillac Eldorado's back in the 70's

NO ONE had a Diesel Pickup... maybe a Ford XLT Camper Special

Was it a GT-40 racecar? Do you have any pictures of it? Is saw a some Ford GT race cars Friday a week ago. It was the first time these cars had been in the US. I doubt they were towed behind an Eldorado

 

[3930dave]

Was it a GT-40 racecar? Do you have any pictures of it? Is saw a some Ford GT race cars Friday a week ago. It was the first time these cars had been in the US. I doubt they were towed behind an Eldorado

UR would have been talking about the original GT40 - rare cars, even back when.

Rgds, D.

 

[94BULLITT]

UR would have been talking about the original GT40 - rare cars, even back when.

Rgds, D.

I know he was talking about a GT40. I don't think they were every sold in the US.

 

[3930dave]

I know he was talking about a GT40. I don't think they were every sold in the US.

OK .... not sure of your age.... some "youngsters" only know the recent GT.

AFAIK, the real GT40s were race only, factory controlled. Even if you had really deep pockets, you still had to have the right personal connections to get physically anywhere near one, outside of a museum.

Rgds, D.

 

[94BULLITT]

OK .... not sure of your age.... some "youngsters" only know the recent GT.

AFAIK, the real GT40s were race only, factory controlled. Even if you had really deep pockets, you still had to have the right personal connections to get physically anywhere near one, outside of a museum.

Rgds, D.

I know the difference between a GT40 and a Ford GT I was just doing some reading on the GT40 and it looks like in its earlier days it was just called a Ford GT.

I think the GT40 MKIII was a road car.