fractal
Gold Member
Just a couple of random notes.
A trailer is only as good as its weakest component. Starting from the ground up, you have tires, wheels, axles, springs, chassis and hitch.
I myself find the funky tiny little tires that they put on home depot (or harbor freight) trailers a little too scary. I really like full size, 5 bolt wheels with full size tires. You are going to be hard pressed to find that on a 800 pound rated trailer. It does add to the cost and the empty weight which reduces your carry capacity vs rating, but it does improve toability.
Ballance that with the knowledge that most cars are rated at 1000 pound tow capacity and you find you don't want too big a trailer if you want to tow with your basic family car / minivan.
Your big tex will tow a lot better than any of the plywood (4x8) trailers. But, as you said, the 4x8 is much easier to manuver. As long as you don't mind keeping it below 45 mph to avoid it rattling itself to pieces.
A trailer is only as good as its weakest component. Starting from the ground up, you have tires, wheels, axles, springs, chassis and hitch.
I myself find the funky tiny little tires that they put on home depot (or harbor freight) trailers a little too scary. I really like full size, 5 bolt wheels with full size tires. You are going to be hard pressed to find that on a 800 pound rated trailer. It does add to the cost and the empty weight which reduces your carry capacity vs rating, but it does improve toability.
Ballance that with the knowledge that most cars are rated at 1000 pound tow capacity and you find you don't want too big a trailer if you want to tow with your basic family car / minivan.
Your big tex will tow a lot better than any of the plywood (4x8) trailers. But, as you said, the 4x8 is much easier to manuver. As long as you don't mind keeping it below 45 mph to avoid it rattling itself to pieces.
