country UTV trailer review?

[ArlyA]

Hey Guys,

We've been off on vacation and traveling, etc, etc and not been able to excess TBN. Your rebuild looks good. One thing different we did was when we rebuilt the walking beam 3/4 pins. You welding in washers, where as we installed 3/4 locking collars to hold those walking beam pins static. Most of what you've done is very similar to our repairs.

 

[JerryK]

Hey Guys,

We've been off on vacation and traveling, etc, etc and not been able to excess TBN. Your rebuild looks good. One thing different we did was when we rebuilt the walking beam 3/4 pins. You welding in washers, where as we installed 3/4 locking collars to hold those walking beam pins static. Most of what you've done is very similar to our repairs.

Yah, that makes sense. I plagiarized as much as your build as I could. The walking beams really should be on separate 3/4" shafts so they could move separate of each other. Welcome back...!!! Used to spend a lot of vacation time up there with our Finish friends up in the Kewanaw. Feeding the skeeters and horseflies, looking for coppers, digging in the old Calumet dump.....

 

[ArlyA]

Jerry, Seems you are asking about the 2x2x.250 angle we added just behind the walking beam support plates. This runs 90 degrees from the trailers front/back. This was to help the sub-frame for bowing while under heavy loads and no relation to us using the trailers dump feature.

This trailer was really under built in my book.

Howdy..!!! I just ordered a trailer similar to yours, but has a 7' X 4' bed with metal sides [ 7740UTV-BR ]. I stumbled onto your rebuild, and will mod mine / paint it before I assemble it, My one question is why you added the brace on the side of the channel iron between the walking beam plate and the vertical angle the bed pivot on??? [ picture #1 of the frame upside down ] I do not plan on making mine tilt and will fix the bed in place. Basically going to use mine for firewood/out in the woods behind a tractor....

 

[JerryK]

Jerry, Seems you are asking about the 2x2x.250 angle we added just behind the walking beam support plates. This runs 90 degrees from the trailers front/back. This was to help the sub-frame for bowing while under heavy loads and no relation to us using the trailers dump feature.
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This trailer was really under built in my book.

That's why I thought i would do your mods before putting mine together when I bought it. I don't need it to carry dirt/gravel, just firewood. I have been looking at these type trailers on and off for several years when I stumbled on your rebuild posts. Bought me one to help gather/haul wood/ etc... All YOUR fault...... I might put a hyd cyl in mine to dump someday, but don't see me needing it right now.

 

[ArlyA]

Jerry, you do know that ours has the hydraulic jack option? For hauling gravel as we do, that has been a real labor saver....

Speak of under built. County is a very small company and when I called them about the jack failing, (they sent a us a new one for free) I was speaking with the owner who said we should let them know how the trailer works for us. I never did let them know that we wore the walking beam out in one summer. Or that we bent the box frame......

 

[JerryK]

Yes, but I can just install a hyd cyl and run it off my tractor. They sell a 4'X8' for compact trailers [ Utility Dump Wagons & Trailers for ATV, lawn and garden, Compact and Subcompact Utility Tractors by CMI. , towards the bottom ] that has provisions for the hyd cyl right from them. I don't see me having to make it dump. I have two other tractors big enough to pick the front up loaded and shake them empty if I did.....

 

[ArlyA]

We used a tractor, but the problem is the tractor loads at the pit, so its not at the dump location. I'll attach a few photos of no real value.

 

[JerryK]

Ta - daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa [ insert drum rolls here.. ] Finally got it finished except for any painting yet to do.......

 

[rocketfish]

Looks good JerryK. Two thumbs up!

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a few recent photos of this trailer in action. This is a 16ft 6x6 we retrieved today and you may note, the trailer hitch was modified so as to be lengthened for hauling longer pieces like this.