Utility/Cattle Trailer

[dj59red]

I am looking to build a utility trailer but a couple of time a year I need to haul a steer or calves but can't justify the cost of a stock trailer. Has anyone built a box so to say to mount on the utility trailer to convert it to a stock trailer. Thanks, DJ

 

[BHD]

the red unit is a stock rack for a goose neck trailer and the others are for a pickup box stock rack,

make sure there tied bolted down or on,

 

[BHD]

here are two more actual stock trailers that are not much more than a utility trailer with a cage built on it, the red one is shop built the black is a manufactured unit,

 

[RPW]

If you have a utility trailer you could use portable panels that come in either 5' x 10' or 6' x 10' and with a little bit of modification you could turn a utility trailer into a pretty nice stock trailer.

 

[SandburRanch]

I am looking to build a utility trailer but a couple of time a year I need to haul a steer or calves but can't justify the cost of a stock trailer. Has anyone built a box so to say to mount on the utility trailer to convert it to a stock trailer. Thanks, DJ

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Too bad we're so far apart in miles.. Several years ago I had the same thing in mind and built a tandem axle trailer to haul concrete blocks and double as a stock trailer. It has never hauled a block or livestock. Just sets in the garage and takes up space.

 

[dj59red]

Would you have any pictures of the trailer.
Dennis

 

[Hosskix]

If you have a utility trailer you could use portable panels that come in either 5' x 10' or 6' x 10' and with a little bit of modification you could turn a utility trailer into a pretty nice stock trailer.

I helped a buddy do that once.
We welded rings onto the trailer that would stay in place, got a couple of the 16' stock panels from TSC and welded posts to them.
When you need a stock trailer you just slip the posts into the rings and tie down the panel to the trailer.
Same thing on the front and back except that we didn't put post and rings, we just used pins for the regular rings that come on a stock panel.

 

[SandburRanch]

the red unit is a stock rack for a goose neck trailer and the others are for a pickup box stock rack,

make sure there tied bolted down or on,

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Oh how those pickup stock racks bring back memories of loading and un-loading. And then a neighbor ask me to help him with a set he had borrowed. Rather than pipe construction they were built using sucker rod. I bet they weighed nearly a thousand pounds.

 

[harleydave]

Hay..the red cattle rack/slide in type, is what I am looking for. I have a 16 ft gooseneck dump trailer...71 in inside width. Who makes these? I ask about them, and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy. Thanks for any info

 

[SandburRanch]

Hay..the red cattle rack/slide in type, is what I am looking for. I have a 16 ft gooseneck dump trailer...71 in inside width. Who makes these? I ask about them, and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy. Thanks for any info

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On occasion 16 foot stock racks that were used 50 years ago in farm trucks can be found abandon out back in the weeds and sometimes appear at auctions. Sixteen ft. was common for single axle trucks in those days. You could modify the width or maybe have a shop do the work if it was too wide.
An add for stock racks in the classified section might turn up something.

 

[saltbranch]

I've seen several styles like this here in S.Texas

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[harleydave]

the red unit is a stock rack for a goose neck trailer and the others are for a pickup box stock rack,

make sure there tied bolted down or on,

Sir..do you remember who makes the red slide-in unit? It is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks for any help.

 

[BHD]

I am sorry I do not I think it may have been off an auction site,
I did do a picture search and did not come up with any thing, as to the manufacture,

 

[BHD]

found one company that makes one, I am sure there are others,

Gooseneck Trailer Mfg. Co. - Custom Trailers, Frac Tanks & Truck Beds

I would think if one did a search and find companies that build utility and stock trailers they could build you one if you wanted, or even possibly they would build you a slide in unit, you would just have to contact the companies and see what they would do,

also do not over look local welding shops and fabricators, and or trailer shops,

(my guess is this is a one peice unit not a removable stock sides)
but plans for a build it your self, trailer
Trailer Blueprints — Livestock Tandem Axle Gooseneck Trailer | Trailer Blueprints | Northern Tool + Equipment
I really doubt if it would take much to make it a slide in unit like the above manufacture unit,

(one difference on a stock only trailer is usually the top of and the sides of the trailer are part of the support system, (usually no real frame or sides for support) but a utility trailer is self supporting (if one cut the top off a stock trailer one would not have much of a trailer, as some times the only "frame" a stock trailer is two angle iron on each side, where the springs attach to,
(so I would probably build a utility trailer and then add the stock panels on it),
(not built a stock trailer and cut or remove the stock panels top),
Trailer Blueprints — 16Ft. Tandem Lowboy Trailer | Trailer Blueprints | Northern Tool + Equipment
or
Trailer Blueprints — 26ft. x 8ft. 6in. Flat Deck Auto Hauler | Trailer Blueprints | Northern Tool + Equipment

 

[Taylortractornut]

My first big welding job when I was a kid was stock trailer. Dad bought me a new Miller thunderbolt DC welder with the agreement he pays for the welder up front and I repay him. It was my first year of welding shop when i was 14. This friend of dads had a large single axle sailboat trailer. It was built like a brick out house. I had a ton of 3 inch 14 gauge pressed channel and made frames out of them and lined them with cattle pannel. I made them all the way up to the A frame on the hitch. I made a new floor for the trailer and joined the frames together so that could be set on as a complete unit. After that they never were taken off, THat old man hauled cattlle and Calves a llamas for 8 or so years.

 

[katcontracting]

the red unit is a stock rack for a goose neck trailer and the others are for a pickup box stock rack,

make sure there tied bolted down or on,

-- Where is this located? Is it for sale?