No trailer - How do you guys haul your toys?

[clemsonfor]

A local Kubota dealer, Beverage Tractor, over the mountain west of Charlottesville in Stuarts Draft has a deal on a Kubota. You buy the tractor, bush hog, FEL and I think one other implement, and they throw in the trailer to put it all on. Think it's a B2601 or maybe an L. Not sure. Price seems quite reasonable. Don't recall the number.

Ralph

A bunch of dealers do that around here. They appeal to the deer hunters who go to the club or own acerage they don't live on but go to for the day or weekend.

 

[ddbackhoe]

I would really like to have a trailer but like you I can't justify the cost. I had the dealer drop my new Kubota at my mother's house last year where I mounted the backhoe which had been my father's, and paid $500 to have it hauled home on a rollback. This fall I will be bringing his TO35:home and pay it again. Those two trips are 1/4 of the cost of a new trailer setup, but I probably would never use it again. Unless I also decide to bring the 4400 Ford home, of course...

Maybe I need to move. We picked up an old oliver crawler with the crane, loaded it on a flatbed and sent it to upper NJ on a Sunday morning. The new owner paid us $800 plus tolls and he was tickled. When I had some tow trucks we would haul stuff like tractors, skidsteers, excavators, tool boxes, w/e during our slow times. Might be 10 am or 2 am (maybe not even same day) but since it was when we had a truck and driver available we cutthroated our prices to have the busy work. I know quite a few dump drivers that have a similar attitude. If you don't have to have it right now.....

 

[Industrial Toys]

Cost and regulations here in Ontario (Canada) is making it more and more unfeasible to do ones own occasional trailering of equipment. Right now, I need annual safety on my 2500 Diesel and tandem deck-over dump trailer. I pay extra license to get me to a level before I have to pay even more and jump through more hoops like keeping log books.

As it is now, I can legally put 400 pounds in my trailer! If I had a half ton, the weight saving on the truck could be added as cargo.

Welcome to Ontario! Bleed the working stiff to death via ever increased taxation to pay for more social programs!

 

[RobertN]

This post really reflect what I have found since I got my trailer some years back. Now, I can't imagine being without it.

- Let Cub Scouts make a float and towed behind my old Farmall in Christmas parade; they won 1st place a couple times
- Hauled canoes for Boy Scout troop adventures
- Hauled hay
- Hauled lumber
- Hauled pipe
- Hauled motorcycles
- Hauled various tractors
- Hauled various cars and pickups
- Hauled firewood
- Hauled pallets of concrete wall blocks

That's a partial list; I thought it would be just for the tractor but it has been very handy!

I値l be honest, once you get a trailer you will prob use it all the time.

I grew up with a trailer available, my dad had both a 6x12 landscape trailer and little 4x6 trailer.

I got a house, got animals, got tractors and recently got into hay. I知 now on the road all the time with a trailer.

Used to have a F150, outgrew it and bought a 2wd 1995 F350 XL flatbed.

My first trailer was a 8k tandem axle trailer, outgrew it and now have a 10k deck over with mobile home axles under it, will prob swap axles for 7k axles with brakes on both axles ($1500-$2500 including 5 wheels and tires).

So now I have a 10k GVWR truck and a 10k trailer soon to be dexter axle 14k deck over.

So my trailer has saved me a lot of money, I had my truck break down-ish about an hour and 15 mins from home. Got it arranged for my buddy to tow my truck back on my trailer (no tow bills, just paid him some diesel), his truck broke down, had a brake hold on so we towed it back on my trailer. He has his own 2500hd duramax and 10k equipment trailer but we borrow each other痴 stuff as needed, that was we are never down even when something breaks, there isn稚 anything we can稚 haul home so no tow fees ever. It痴 really nice.

My buddy and I are both the type of guys that don稚 care about loaning stuff out, my dad is the same way with his trailers, all the trailers see a good amount of use per year.

I find also I like to hook a trailer up and load it up vs hauling stuff in the bed, trailer deck is lower and it痴 more convenient as odd as that sounds.

Also when someone moves we have some serious rigs there lol, and can move a whole house in a day no matter the distance really because of how many trucks and trailers available. Mine is 20ft, my buddies is 18ft, my dads is 12ft, my BIL has a 18ft trailer also. 1-2 trips and house is moved lol.

I couldn稚 live without a trailer, it would hold me back, cost me so much money.

Now on the flip side of that my second cousin and that side of the Fam are Farmers of about 600 acres. They have huge tractors, tons of equipment, combines etc. they don稚 really have trailers, they have one trailer and it痴 something like 14-20k prob behind a dump truck but they hardly use it, they pay to have things hauled or drive the equipment. My cousin bought a case anteater from a case dealer about 40 miles from his house, I asked him, how did they get it there and he said they drive it, I laughed and said that would take at least two hours to drive it there lol, but that痴 what they do on all the bigger stuff or pay a semi to haul it. All their smaller tractors never leave the farm or can be drove down the road as well.

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Those pics represent a fraction of what was hauled this last year, a few are a little older than that. Most of the garden tractors I flipped for a nice profit thanks to trailers.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^My PJ trailer is used by my now 17 year old niece more than me... 3 year running her High School has made a float out of it... rather impressive as it goes down main street...

It is tagged 9980# for California and the 5 year tag last time was under $20... it is about the only perk we have so I own several.

The one I use all the time... is my 4x6 box trailer... light, handy and will haul 1 yard of rock... as in 30 or so yards last year... just stop on my way home from work and get another yard...

It will also haul a lot of 4x8 sheet goods with the gate down...

 

[4570Man]

I’ve got a 5x8 trailer and it’s a handy piece to have around. It pulls easy, isn’t very limiting in parking and is easy to hook up. I just back up in its direction and set it on the ball. I’ve got several bigger trailers but that’s my favorite one if the load allows.

 

[massey collector]

Trailers I have a few, a tri axel 24' equipment trailer bed over axel, 22'enclosed snowmobile/atv trailer, a 10'x8' snowmobile trailer I use to haul my zero turn to mower jobs. A small uility trailer I haul fire wood in and a even smaller yard cart trailer for the lawn tractors and ATV.

I am wanting a car hauler to haul our antique car out to a dry pavemnent after a rain muddies up our gravel road and to haul my Bota L3301 to our UP property to do brush hog work and other things a tractor can do there.

Here in Michigan trailer plates are permeant cost based on weight, the triaxel was $150.00, insurance is covered by home owners insurance when parked in the yard and by auto insurance when towing.

When I want some thing moved with a trailer i want it done now not when some one else can find the time. If you apply tire shine it preserves the tires and block the sun goes a long way to keep the tires up. My triaxel tirs are almost 20 and the enclosed is 15 years old.


Al

 

[JohnBuffaloMN]

Got a Sloan Kwik Load trailer (10K) used a few years ago. Heavy Haulers, Gooseneck & Car Trailers for Sale in Texas | Kwik Load Trailers Needs paint and an electric brake job and wiring (on the list of projects). I've hauled cars and my tractors on it when needed. Really like that trailer and will consider their trailers when I need another. Of course there are a few other small trailers for the ATV/garden tractor and a hay wagon.

 

[ultrarunner]

I like the roll back trailers from the first time I saw one at a car show...

 

[4570Man]

Roll backs are nice. The biggest limitation I have found is bed length. Some people have issues with insurance.