3 axle trailer heavy duty ----Question

[Diamondpilot]

Around here there are lots of trailers with them on it but if you have one inspected it will not pass. Dealers will also not take a trailer in on trade or work on them because of the liability and if the DOT pulls you over as they were doing hot and heavy 3 years ago here they would red tag the trailer and make you park it till the tires and axles were changed, so its no myth.

Now that all being said I would guess I see 2-3 trailers running down the road with them every week. They may never have a problem or get caught but it is what it is.

Chris

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Johnp33 based on Diamondpilot's post from IN more and more states are calling the use of mobile home trailer parts illegal it seems making you right and me wrong. That is what I get for assuming tomorrow is going to be like yesterday. There are still a lot in use around here. I guess I will have to build houses on my two trailers.

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One would get to get hubs with back plates for axles needing brakes to convert to street legal hubs, wheels and tires in states banding MH OEM set ups.

Actually my 25 foot trailer will scrap out for what I gave for it but because it is built with very heavy I beams I am saving it for a bridge on for a creek on the place. The other option is to use it the trailers locally pulling them with the tractor as farm trailers.

 

[Johnp33]

You can buy replacment axles cheap, the whole set up. If I can in Canada, you get them a lot cheaper.
I buy axles custom made, at what ever spread, size, hubs, I need at no extra charge.

 

[tulenutn2o]

Around here there are lots of trailers with them on it but if you have one inspected it will not pass. Dealers will also not take a trailer in on trade or work on them because of the liability and if the DOT pulls you over as they were doing hot and heavy 3 years ago here they would red tag the trailer and make you park it till the tires and axles were changed, so its no myth.

Now that all being said I would guess I see 2-3 trailers running down the road with them every week. They may never have a problem or get caught but it is what it is.

Chris

What exactly fails in the inspection? Don't have to worry about that here, but curious. Sounds more like government making more useless rules against us little people, than anything else.

 

[case245]

that mobile home frame is to light to haul any thing heavy a skidder lol they wieght 12 ton had a 943b cat yea a 3 axle trailer with 8 tires on the trailer rated for 15 tons i bent one of them main I beam with my L3800 WITH THE FEL BUY A TRAILER with good brakes without good brakes even if someone else hit you its your falt without good braking system rated for the load i know i got a fined for no brakes on a trailer so i sold it and bought one with brakes that few thousand u save aint worth a hill of beans if u cant stop the load and you kill someone that kind of money is pocket change compared to taking someone life over a few bucks

 

[tulenutn2o]

that mobile home frame is to light to haul any thing heavy a skidder lol they wieght 12 ton had a 943b cat yea a 3 axle trailer with 8 tires on the trailer rated for 15 tons i bent one of them main I beam with my L3800 WITH THE FEL BUY A TRAILER with good brakes without good brakes even if someone else hit you its your falt without good braking system rated for the load i know i got a fined for no brakes on a trailer so i sold it and bought one with brakes that few thousand u save aint worth a hill of beans if u cant stop the load and you kill someone that kind of money is pocket change compared to taking someone life over a few bucks

Most be a heck of a large skid-loader to weigh 12ton, sounds more like a front end loader you were hauling. I think most of us would not even think about putting that on a homebuilt trailer in the first place, at least not to go down the road. Brakes on thes MH axles work just fine, like everything else common sense goes a long way. By the way, having a heavy duty trailer factory built with other than MH axles, does not guarantee you will not have a bearing failure, and in worse case scenario, lose a wheel. Happens more than you'd think on big trucks. Being overloaded with anything, can get you in deep trouble. I doubt that not having a phantom number on an axle is an issue if you can prove that brakes work and nothing came off in an accident. People are afraid of their own shadow anymore.

 

[crazyal]

I love how people love to look at a picture and state they know for sure that they are mobile home axles. I hate to tell you but I have a tri-axle trailer with three axles that look identical to those that are not MH. I know this because the trailer was factory built, I have the certificate of origin. Around here there are a lot of job site rental office trailers that also use these axles, are they one time use too? :laughing: One thing I was told to look at was the leaf springs, one single heavy duty spring usually is how MH axles are set up as multiple leafs are more expensive. I'd have to look again but I thought I saw multiple leafs in the OP.

 

[case245]

a log skidder

 

[case245]

iwas with my pap when he lost a wheel on deckover back cat pick the axle up throw chain around it use chain bender loaded cat back up we drove it the way till we got home they were mh wheels but diffrent brakes on the axles

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I have this trailer see pics.
It has mobile home hubs and tires on it.
So of course i want to switch the hubs so I can use chevy rims on it.
The trailer is13'x8 in size on the bed portion, but it is it 20' long overall.
It kinda sucks because i had plans to rotate the axles and flip the springs to be mounted under the axle to lower the trailer down.
But the 8' width ruins my plans to haul my truck. My old chevy is 6 1/2' wide so if i lowered the bed portion of the trailer between the tires, i would lose about it 1 1/2' on each side.
So my question is it worth converting the hubs and replacing the two sets of rear brakes and six low boy tires?
This trailer sits rather high in its current configuration and would just be a utility trailer, to haul hay, scrap, etc on.
Your thoughts are appreciated

Good catch crazyal.

I lost the edit that states the close up of the one axle in the first post shows it has leaf springs and is the back plate bolts on where as MH axles have the back plate welded on to save cost.