Connect Two Wheeler to normal trailer

Extreamskier · Oct 12, 2024

I'm thinking can a BCS be DIY hitched to a normal road trailer?

First I know I can't use the ball hitch. Second I haven't fully committed to the BCS 740 but I'm 95% there.

However I've got a decent sized garden on a gentle sloap and can't get the car behind the house, but can get the trailer down manually. I also have no dead ground to dump brash and grass so it need to drive to the dump after a big job.

When I cut the meddow at the bottom or remove logs etc I end up unable to move the loaded trailer by hand, so have to wrestle loaded ton bags up the garden and into the trailer on the drive. Rather than just loading on site.

Could I clamp a box section of steel, with some adjustments to allow the curved connector to sit inside, to my Ifor wilams road trailer and hitch it up. This would get it from bottom of the garden, round the house, to the drive. then swap to the ball hitch and the car can take it to the dump?

ptsg · Oct 12, 2024

Very popular over here in Portugal before the smaller Japanese mini tractors started to appear. These are also allowed on the road without license plate and title compared to a conventional tractor, so that is another big plus for these.

They would put a 4 or 5 speed gearbox on the trailer and a diferencial from an old rear wheel drive car, then used the 2 wheel drive tractor PTO to power it. These things would climb just about anything with a full load of logs in the back. Very impressive.

Some even have a steering box which makes it a lot safer. And it also had mechanical drum brakes. Pretty much just used the ones that came with the axle.

My dad had one back in the day and he had some close calls where he actually ended up under the tractor. As one of the front wheels drops on a hole in the road, it pulled him out of the tractor. Then he modified the hitch to limit the amount it would tilt left/right along with putting some springs to put pressure on the wheel that's on on the hole. That pretty much fixed that issue.

A couple of pictures to give some ideas.

ptsg · Oct 12, 2024

Here is a picture of a hitch too:

The C channel with the 2 holes would connect to the tongue of the hitch. The vertical pin allows it to steer left and right, while the horizontal pin allows it to twist or tilt left and right accordingly to the ground.

Extreamskier · Oct 13, 2024

Thanks that's kinda the idea but I need to maintain the normal car ball hitch as well. The BCS will only be pulling it on my land to get up and round the house. Then switch to car on the drive.

Pick of a similar trailer below

. I think you could mount a bracket on the bottom of the trailer front end on the ends of the bolts for the hitch which has the curved stand.

Then the box section could sit in the space between the two struts.

Then stick a curved coupler into that when I need it attached to BCS.

Does any one know where I can find hights of BCS tractor hitch and how hight the trailer end is on a towed implement?

NibbanaFarm · Nov 28, 2024

That's a small trailer. Get a trailer swivel jack and mount it on the trailer. If the wheel isn't big enough to roll over your terrain mount a bigger pneumatic tire on the jack. Then make up a ball hitch to bolt to the tractor. So the trailer is now three wheeled and the tractor just pulls it but doesn't support it.