A Single Axle Tilt Trailer with 5000 lbs weight rating.

[ultrarunner]

Double Axles to have more real estate for placement.

All depends on how flexible the need it.

The local rental yard has equipment specific single axle trailers.

The pavement rollers are heavy as are the some of the scissor lifts and they all have 5200lb single axle trailers with stops set for the perfect balance.

 

[fried1765]

I understand your price point and needing to stay in budget however really think about the size and load ratings your targeting. A 16' narrow trailer with 3500# load rating is small. Trailers are like buildings, they fill up fast and end up being too small for your needs. Just my observations...

HOW TRUE !!!!

 

[AxleHub]

Nice group of responses so far. In my opening post some may note I mentioned I'd designed a couple trailers and had them built. I used to be a fair-to-middling welder . . But I had someone do it who has built many hundreds of trailers so we could combine our skills for my trailer needs at the time.

Personal opinion . . as I've looked at trailers recently . . I've really been disappointed in many because they are very poorly designed with far too much tongue weight when empty and an axle set way too far back. At empty, a 12/14/16 foot utility trailer should not be favoring the tongue by 125 pounds or more because when uts loaded far to much weight goes on the hitch/tongue for a tilt trailer . . and that amplifies fish tail potential.

In addition . . Good trailer design is about strategic strength . . Not bulk weight as so many I've looked at seem to have. I'd like to avoid the effort of another custom trailer . . And some of tje ideas show so far I'll have to try to find as I travel the area. Neither Diamond or Cam or PJ short tilts are sold in my area even though we have a couple big trailer vendors near.

My ideal would be a 13+ foot orv14 foot length with a 60/40; axle position in a 4500 gvwr. If I did custom I could do it with a quality 3500# axle and still have a 10% external safety factor plus the axle manufacturer's internal safety factor of 12%. As a custom build the trailer weight would be lighter just as the previous ones were . . yet with better rigidity.

I'm surprised I could get as many responses so quickly with various opinions and I'll keep listening for more. Its kind of a rotten trick . . Ya know? Back in my grandfather's time as people aged they acquired an increasing percentsge of the knowledge in a given area or category. But now as I age I need to learn progressively more each year than the past because there is so much more to consider. Lol



P.S. for those supporting the idea of tandem axles . . I'd like to purely from the safety of a blowout. However unless I had considerably more weight to haul . . The negatives of tandems are too great in my opinion.

 

[Stimw]

Here is my 16' trailer with my 3510 Branson. This trailer has 4 wheel electric brakes and tows like a dream!
Even if the tractor weighed less I would not think of hauling it on a single axle.
I have over 40 years experience driving semi's (and a bunch with personal trailers) so I know a thing or three about trailer handling and small single axle trailers can get squirrlie when loaded.

 

[AxleHub]

Here is my 16' trailer with my 3510 Branson. This trailer has 4 wheel electric brakes and tows like a dream!
Even if the tractor weighed less I would not think of hauling it on a single axle.
I have over 40 years experience driving semi's (and a bunch with personal trailers) so I know a thing or three about trailer handling and small single axle trailers can get squirrlie when loaded.

Greetings,

How much weight is your tractor/fel/loaded tires/ 3 pt attachment etc. ?

Is that a 7,000 lb gvwr trailer or 10,000 ?

 

[HHR]

The only HD single axle trailers I've seen are the Felling FT-6 and FT-7. They are tilt deck models and have 6K or 7K axles and a 12 or 14 foot deck. I see contractors using them to haul smaller skid steers and lifts. I will attach photo of spec sheet with weights and dimensions.

 

[HHR]

Another photo of actual FT-7

 

[Stimw]

Greetings,

How much weight is your tractor/fel/loaded tires/ 3 pt attachment etc. ?

Is that a 7,000 lb gvwr trailer or 10,000 ?

The base tractor is 3500lbs (IIRC) add the FEL and Tiller I am around 5000 lbs.
Trailer has 3500 lb axles and weighs 1400 lbs.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I've been thinking of building something similar. We've got an exemption within our trailering rules that allows for a trailer that transmits less than 2800 kgs it isn't required to be added to your truck tags which would save me a bunch of money and headache each year. Single axle trailers don't grab the attention of MTO nearly as much as a tandem. I've got to look into the difference in the weight of the axles/suspension/tires/wheels between a single 7000 lbs and tandem 3500. With built-in stops for exact positioning, I fail to see how a single axle is any less stable than a tandem.

 

[AxleHub]

Cdn Farm Boy,

That is also true in Wisconsin to some extent. A single axle is treated differently if its a 3500 lb axle. I don't know about 5000 lb axles because until just a couple months ago I didn't know there was such a thing as single 5000 lb axles for utility trailers. Which I could use for my purposes and extra safety. Also . . toll roads in many states charge differently for single vs tandem axles.

For trailer handling purposes, a single axle trailer should track as well or better than a tandem. The key to any trailer handling imo, is a proper level of tongue weight . . . too little is not good . . . and too much is just as bad. And tandems create some backing up issues that properly positioned singles don't. Again . . just my opinion. Of course . . If trailer length gets longer or load weight is very tightly located . . Then tandems come into their own