Want to lower deck on trailer

[LBrown59]

I think bed height still makes a diffenence on a tilt bed as well as bed legnth. My first attempt at building one was about 8' long and about 30" tall. You couldn't drive up it but you could dump stuff off. I made my next trailer with a flipped mobil home axle. It has a 10' bed and 19" deck height. I am able to drive right up unless the deck is wet. If I were to build another it would be 11 or 12' long. 10' is some times kind of short when you need to transfer enough weight past the pivot point to make it flip down.
*The only way a person could go lower would be to use dropped spindle axles. I have those on my stock trailer. It has about 16" deck height with 7K axles and 16" tires. I have put my JD3320 in it by just backing in to a ditch.

Dan

I'm talking about a 16 or 18 foot long trailer.
*But wouldn't that make it higher from the bed floor to the tops of the fenders?

 

[DanD78]

I'm talking about a 16 or 18 foot long trailer.
*But wouldn't that make it higher from the bed floor to the tops of the fenders?

Sorry for the confusion. A long tilting trailer would be great and bed height would not be as much of an issue with a long bed. This would be perfect for a person that is afraid to drive up ramps. The only draw back to a tilting trailer is if you want to put something on the front of the trailer and then load your tractor or trying to load two garden tractors on the same trailer.

You are right about the fenders being taller with torsion axles. If you go with the axles that give you 102" width it gives a lot of room between the fenders. I have a deck over goose neck with 5' of beaver tail and 5' of ramps. It is very nice to drive up and no fenders to fool with. Some people get a little spooked sitting on a tractor that high in the air. Tilting or fixed bed trailers both have their good and bad points depending on what you are trying to haul.

Dan

 

[LBrown59]

1*Sorry for the confusion. A long tilting trailer would be great and bed height would not be as much of an issue with a long bed.
2*The only draw back to a tilting trailer is if you want to put something on the front of the trailer and then load your tractor or trying to load two garden tractors on the same trailer.
3*You are right about the fenders being taller with torsion axles.
4*If you go with the axles that give you 102" width it gives a lot of room between the fenders.
I have a deck over goose neck with 5' of beaver tail and 5' of ramps.
Dan

1*I should have stated the length.
2*I see 2 ways around this. use ramps and or get a Hyd.tilt .
3*That means higher cribbing to clear the finders for items wider than the space between them.
4*But it makes for a pretty wide load and a tight fit between narrow objects.
I like the deck over /no fenders in the road but don't care for the extra hight.