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[mikehaugen]

I have heard Dovetail and Beavertail used with Dovetail being MUCH more common. I have also heard Beavertail used to refer to a flatbed semitrailer where the last 10-15' tilts down with hydraulics for loading.

Aaron Z

I could be wrong too (though that never happens ) but I believe beavertail is the correct term, dovetail was used mistakenly and since it's familiar to most people it just spread as being "correct." Duck tales was a cartoon :laughing:, but in seriousness I believe it was just misunderstood (from an already inaccurate term) and the name stuck as well... like "duck" tape. I guess I just get used to all the different terms people use, and continue to believe that my logic is correct. :laughing:

I guess this comes from one of my first jobs at a trailer manufacturer, thay called them beavertails and it was the first name I associated with them, so any other name sounds wrong. It is also the name that makes the most sense to me.

 

[mikehaugen]

A wood dovetail is tough to make. I think the trailer terms are a regional thing. Like gooseneck or lowbed or 5th wheel.

Around here gooseneck and fifth wheel don't even refer to the same thing.

 

[fordmantpw]

Around here gooseneck and fifth wheel don't even refer to the same thing.

Here neither, which is good, because they aren't the same thing at all.

 

[bcp]

Around here gooseneck and fifth wheel don't even refer to the same thing.

This is for a gooseneck trailer:



Bruce

 

[mikehaugen]

This is for a gooseneck trailer:

<img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=399363"/>

Bruce

Exactly!

 

[ENC]

Around here gooseneck is a 2-5/16 ball in the bed. A fifth wheel uses a king pin like an RV or semi. And all trailers that slope at the rear have a dovetail.

 

[HHR]

I have always considered a short and shallow angled tails to be dovetails and the steeper tails to be beavertails.

 

[mikesee]

I have a dove tail goose neck trailer with a king pin that attaches to the truck's fifth wheel

 

[japody]

I have a dove tail goose neck trailer with a king pin that attaches to the truck's fifth wheel

laughing:

 

[T_e_r_r_y]

I sold him 2 of those trailers last week and took an order for 2 more.! !

T. J.