Empty trailer weight

[sresites]

Sorry. Trailer is an H&H Speedloader out of Iowa.

 

[Ford850]

Seems odd that the Iron Bull has such an even weight. I noticed all other weights listed on that tag are in KG, with LBS in ( ), except for the "Weight".

 

[LD1]

I just picked up mine couple weeks ago. It can be optioned with a gooseneck. Empty weight is 4540 lbs. I had serious reservations about this trailer when I first saw delivered pics. Pics badly distorted what I thought bad quality. I was wrong. It’s a great unit. 26’ 102” 16k, 10” channel frame. Full tilt, hydraulic Jack & tilt with wireless remote. GCWR in second pic 29,110 lbs. Handled beautifully.

I would not be opposed to a full tilt GN....but typically cost alot more $$$ and they are just as impossible to find right now as a simple drop deck gooseneck

 

[ljjhouser]

About 5000# seems pretty much correct. My Doolittle EZ loader tile (has two frames) but is a bumper hitch instead of gooseneck weights 3700 #. 14K. I called the manufacturer and scaled it myself to be sure. They really should include the actual weight of the trailer in the Spec. file. BUT I don't know of any manufacturers who do that.

 

[LD1]

About 5000# seems pretty much correct. My Doolittle EZ loader tile (has two frames) but is a bumper hitch instead of gooseneck weights 3700 #. 14K. I called the manufacturer and scaled it myself to be sure. They really should include the actual weight of the trailer in the Spec. file. BUT I don't know of any manufacturers who do that.

Alot of them have the weight on a sticker on the trailer somewhere.

My suretrac dump lists empty weight. Dads AMO 22' 12k lists empty weight.

 

[LD1]

Here's a 28' diamond C full width. Just a tick over 4k and with 8k axles.

3500-4000 seem spot on depending on options

Not sure what the deal is with the load-trail in my original post. Me thinks it's a typo or something. Who in the world would want an extra ton or ton and a half of useless weight back there limiting potential payload?

 

[sresites]

To be clear, H&H haulted production of many of their models. I was about the last one to be allowed the wide bed Speedloader. That was back in November of last year.

 

[sresites]

I recently sold my 2019 Diamond C FMAX210 gooseneck 32’. It weighed 7300 if I remember right. The company has a great concept but in my case this trailer was the lemon of all lemons. This bent, that cracked, not squared, leaking hydraulics, hydraulic dovetail broke up and boards warping & breaking screws within the first week. You park a load over the axles and chain it down using the hydraulic dovetail and eventually the hydraulics are overcome and you have a bouncing dovetail and a poorly secured load. Their system may lock the dovetail from dropping but not from rising.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I just picked up mine couple weeks ago. It can be optioned with a gooseneck. Empty weight is 4540 lbs. I had serious reservations about this trailer when I first saw delivered pics. Pics badly distorted what I thought bad quality. I was wrong. It’s a great unit. 26’ 102” 16k, 10” channel frame. Full tilt, hydraulic Jack & tilt with wireless remote. GCWR in second pic 29,110 lbs. Handled beautifully.

Are you going down a runway?

 

[sresites]

Are you going down a runway?

This used to be a weigh station on Highway 99 north of Sacramento. It's my first heavy pull with the new trailer so was double checking for safety issues.

 

[nikerret]

Alot of them have the weight on a sticker on the trailer somewhere.

My suretrac dump lists empty weight. Dads AMO 22' 12k lists empty weight.

I don’t know about the weight, but they tend to have a weight listed.

 

[sresites]

The problem while shopping for a new trailer, very few manufacturers will provide an empty weight in their online brochures. Frustrating.

 

[MechanicalGuy]

Trailer manufacturers like to play around with the numbers. Like 14K rated trailers with 6K axles. So that 3.5K could be axle weight but the trailer weighs 4.5K so it starts with 1K tongue weight.

That's not the axle weight-listed, it's axle weight bearing listing.

 

[RandyT]

That's not the axle weight-listed, it's axle weight bearing listing.

What I was getting at is trailer manufacturers like to play with weight and fudge ratings. Like the post in #26 were you have a 18K trailer but only have 16K worth of axles. Two 8K axles. So how do we know that the 4060# empty weight isn't the weight of the trailer axles while sitting on a scale.

 

[nytryder]

I purchased a 24' bobtail bigfoot bumper pull trailer just before New Years last Dec. The title says my trailer weighs in at 2450 #s. I paid just below $4500. It has 2 6000# axels and 2 axel brakes. The dealership is located in the Lakeland Fl area on hiway 60. I am pulling this trailer with a 2019 F-150 King Ranch. My truck came from the factory with the tow package. It has the 5.0 V8 and when loaded with 8000# pulls just fine. The problem is stopping the 13000# (truck included) in a hurry. The tow package comes with the ability to operate functional trailer brakes that thank God my trailer has. My suggestion is to never buy a trailer with brakes on just one axel. While shopping several trailer sales people said that 1 axel brake was enough and I could save $$. No way! I hope that in some way this info is helpful to someone here. I am also very open to advice or info that would be of help as I am new to all this.