QRTRHRS
Elite Member
In addition to lights and paint, I may have found another place for a trailer manufacturer to cut a corner.
I pulled the drop tube off of my 20k dump trailer to clean it up and paint it while doing some touch up work. There was only enough sticker to see that the tube was made by Bulldog but once I started cleaning it up, I noticed stamped numbers with a 20,000 lb rating.
I looked at my 12k rated horse trailer to see what was on that. Hmm, rated for 25K?
I am thinking that the latter has plenty of margin for error but I question the former. Any thoughts on this?
I bought this trailer with a 16' box for general farm use. I have to haul quite a few loads of crushed stone back to our place and as long as my Dodge will pull it, I will be targeting the gross rating.
Additionally, my horse trailer label states that the maximum drop is 8". Would that be the distance from the bottom of the gooseneck tube to where the taper starts on the drop tube?
That particular measurement on my horse trailer is only two inches but the dump sits alot higher. I need to have eight or ten inches with that but end up with not too much tube length about the two bolts that tighten it.
I pulled the drop tube off of my 20k dump trailer to clean it up and paint it while doing some touch up work. There was only enough sticker to see that the tube was made by Bulldog but once I started cleaning it up, I noticed stamped numbers with a 20,000 lb rating.
I looked at my 12k rated horse trailer to see what was on that. Hmm, rated for 25K?
I am thinking that the latter has plenty of margin for error but I question the former. Any thoughts on this?
I bought this trailer with a 16' box for general farm use. I have to haul quite a few loads of crushed stone back to our place and as long as my Dodge will pull it, I will be targeting the gross rating.
Additionally, my horse trailer label states that the maximum drop is 8". Would that be the distance from the bottom of the gooseneck tube to where the taper starts on the drop tube?
That particular measurement on my horse trailer is only two inches but the dump sits alot higher. I need to have eight or ten inches with that but end up with not too much tube length about the two bolts that tighten it.
