Trailer for Kubota B2320/B2620: Tight spaces

[TheTrailerGuy]

Charging with the brake lights is a old trick. It allows just about any tow vehicle to use the trailer, not just ones with a charge circuit. It will work but not right in my opinion.

Chris

Actually, it was pretty ingenious and this is NOT an old trick. It is actually a very new twist on an old trick though. Each unit has a little diode that simply puts a full 12 volts into the battery but doesn't let any draw back out through the same circuit.

And I am sure that it works. Have put them on over 55,000 trailers in the last 8 years since the design came out. Works just like you always hoped it would. Keeps the breakaway batter up and charged and you don't have to do anything but just pull it once in a while.

 

[dodge man]

I wish this picture showed the trailer a little better, but this is my BX2350 with FEL and 4' brush hog on it. It is on a 16+2 trailer, a 16' flat deck, with a 2 foot dove tail. You can't see the back, but the brush hog is even with the back of the trailer, and there is maybe 6 to 12 inches between the fel bucket and the front rail. With your tractor, I wouldn't want to go smaller than 18', but I bet a 16' would work, but not as well. My trailer has the slide in ramps. You can see by the pictures that there isn't a lot of room left over to ballance the load, and your tractor is bigger than mine.

I looked at a 16' landscape trailer, with no dove tail. Its the style with side rails, and the entire trailer is lower than mine. Even though mine has a dovetail, I'm not sure the back end is any lower than a lot of trailers that don't have a dove tail.

 

[RobertN]

Here is the back of my old B8200 with 4' rotary mower on my 16' 7000lb 2 axle trailer. Pictures on the web show the B2620 is the same size as the older B8200/B9200. As you can see, the tailwheel used to hang over(I don't have that tractor any more). You're not seeing the loader on the front of the tractor... The front edge of the bucket was at the front edge of the trailer deck.

With just a scraper, it fit easily.

The B8200 was light enough, the balance did not seem and issue. The trailer seemed to set pretty even, and it towed like a dream. I towed it 200 mile round trip a couple times to a duck refuge cleanup day; rode nice.

Now I need a bigger trailer; my NH TC40D is much longer. It is within the weight rating of the trailer, but too long to balance...

 

[Diamondpilot]

Actually, it was pretty ingenious and this is NOT an old trick. It is actually a very new twist on an old trick though. Each unit has a little diode that simply puts a full 12 volts into the battery but doesn't let any draw back out through the same circuit.

And I am sure that it works. Have put them on over 55,000 trailers in the last 8 years since the design came out. Works just like you always hoped it would. Keeps the breakaway batter up and charged and you don't have to do anything but just pull it once in a while.

Well I call it a old trick because I have seen it for 20 plus years. A diode can be had at any Radio Shack or electronics store.

I did not say it did not work but to me its not right. Modern vehicles with tow packages have the wiring in place to deliver much more current, usually 30 amps or more, to charge the battery properly.

To each his own.

Chris

 

[Newblue]

Actually, it was pretty ingenious and this is NOT an old trick. It is actually a very new twist on an old trick though. Each unit has a little diode that simply puts a full 12 volts into the battery but doesn't let any draw back out through the same circuit.

And I am sure that it works. Have put them on over 55,000 trailers in the last 8 years since the design came out. Works just like you always hoped it would. Keeps the breakaway batter up and charged and you don't have to do anything but just pull it once in a while.

If there are that many trailers out there with it, it must work. I just would question the current draw of a low battery. I would think that would put a strain on the brake light fuse. I would not do this on a camper battery, after a weekend of boondocking the battery would be low and it would take a large amount of current to charge it. Is there a resistor inline with the diode? That would take care of an overcurrent condition.

 

[Diamondpilot]

If there are that many trailers out there with it, it must work. I just would question the current draw of a low battery. I would think that would put a strain on the brake light fuse. I would not do this on a camper battery, after a weekend of boondocking the battery would be low and it would take a large amount of current to charge it. Is there a resistor inline with the diode? That would take care of an overcurrent condition.

Working on trailers I have seen it all. I can not tell you how many I have seen hooked to the running lights with a diode also.

It works but why? Every truck I have had for 20 years has been properly wired to do it the right way.:confused2:

Chris

 

[TheTrailerGuy]

Working on trailers I have seen it all. I can not tell you how many I have seen hooked to the running lights with a diode also.

It works but why? Every truck I have had for 20 years has been properly wired to do it the right way.:confused2:

Chris

Yep, it was designed years ago by Tekonsha and works like a charm. All just a little self contained 'bump' in the wiring by the battery in the breakaway. Never have even had one fail in all of them we have sold. Quite a neat little piece of engineering.

 

[hawkeye08]

sounds like a practical solution to a simple problem.

 

[newbury]

To the OP
If you are hauling a tractor and have REAL tight spaces, have you thought of having the tractor position the trailer at the ends of the trips?

When I bought my trailer etc in my sig /edit and the picture - I couldn't easily get the trailer turned on my narrow residential street with my tow vehicle (an E350 Maxivan which is LONG). I knew I wanted a "3 pt trailer hitch" so bought one. Easily parked the trailer using the tractor. My other option I saw was a shortbox truck, but they cost WAY over $160.

 

[jimrs]

I have the same problem and have given it a lot of thought and for hauling it the distance you are planning I would say go with an 18footer. I am looking now for an 18footer about 77in wide. Due to lack of space this is what I need have not been very lucky yet in finding just what I want but a 16 with a bushhog is too short in my opinion. Here is mine on an 18foot trailer with a fel and box blade.