I love my wife.

Ford850 · May 5, 2017

Reiser's website shows this in the specs: 82" between tread plate fenders w/backs

buckeyefarmer · May 5, 2017

What I figured, Most of them are about 2" short. My current trailer is 6'4" wide. Tires are pretty wide, might have to change to narrow tires.

Sysop · May 6, 2017

Mine measured 82.5" exact. By the looks of things inside the fenders, they could easily give you a few extra inches.

buckeyefarmer · May 6, 2017

Thanks for checking.

Diamondpilot · May 6, 2017

Sysop said:
Mine measured 82.5" exact. By the looks of things inside the fenders, they could easily give you a few extra inches.

You need the fender clearance for tight turns. The tires really flex.

Sysop · May 6, 2017

Two options spring to mind. Removable fenders and rub rails if ya don't mind strapping your load to the very edges. Other would be drive-over fenders.

Marvelor · May 13, 2017

Nice trailer! It will surely be useful! i agree that quality is a very important consideration when owning a trailer! We should even spend some more money to ensure that we could use it longer.

Sysop · May 13, 2017

That is sorta what I did. 99% of my loads will be less than 18' and under 8000lbs. Being able to move the loads forward or aft to balance the weight and NOT being near capacity were my two primary goals when shopping. With 22' and over 10k capacity, it should outlive my uses for it.

Sysop · May 16, 2017

Had my first real "seat time" with the trailer. I already had about 200 miles on it from picking it up and getting a load of 16' 6x6 timbers from the lumber yard. But that was a combination of small trips. This time it was about 600 miles for the round trip...

Son's fiancé decided (poorly) to take an older car to Baltimore and back over the weekend and didn't quite make it... Towing bill would have rivaled the worth of the car, so I opted to go get it for her. She already invested four or five times what a rental would have cost having it towed to a shop in downtown Baltimore. $135 in gasoline more than made the round trip, so it was much cheaper than a towing service would have been.

I did discover something I dislike about my trailer, but I'm sure it is exactly the same for any 14k trailer. Unloaded, it will beat you to death. There is just enough weight in the tongue (coupled with my typical bed load) to load the suspension on the truck and make the truck ride more like a truck of 20 years ago, and of course there is NO give in the trailer springs without a load. Between these two things, I had to stop a couple times and rest my back on the way there. On the way back with about 3500lbs on the deck, it was MUCH smoother so there were no stops.

I opted to make the trip overnight as I'm not fully sure of Maryland's trailering laws. I had called their state police and asked if there were any restrictions I should be aware of, and the officer I spoke with seemed to indicate that if it was legal for my home state, I was welcome to travel through theirs. I know their weigh/inspection station signage all say "All vehicles over 5T GVW" whereas here in my home of WV the signage for weigh stations indicates they are for commercial trucks only. After being loaded I was going to be over the 5T mark by a fair bit, so I left at about 9PM Sunday night and got back around 7AM just to avoid any potential hassle.

Happily I bought the trailer to use loaded and will very seldom be towing it unladen. Hopefully no more long trips too..

rScotty · May 16, 2017

Sysop said:
I did discover something I dislike about my trailer, but I'm sure it is exactly the same for any 14k trailer. Unloaded, it will beat you to death. There is just enough weight in the tongue (coupled with my typical bed load) to load the suspension on the truck and make the truck ride more like a truck of 20 years ago, and of course there is NO give in the trailer springs without a load. Between these two things, I had to stop a couple times and rest my back on the way there. On the way back with about 3500lbs on the deck, it was MUCH smoother so there were no stops.

Happily I bought the trailer to use loaded and will very seldom be towing it unladen. Hopefully no more long trips too..

Does Reiser offer progressive springs as an option? That would add cost, and would cause the unladen trailer to ride a few inches higher, but wouldn't change anything about the loaded configuration. And the empty ride would be much smoother. Or if Reiser doesn't offer that option, there is probably a spring designer that could spec you a custom set-up for your trailer.
enjoy,
rScotty