Trailers...

[Paul in NZ]

Well since you are a bunch of mechanically minded opinionated bastards I may as well ask here...

So - Vicki and I are going to buy another trailer. Last one we had was an inherited home built job that gave me the heebeegeebees every time I used it until I just dragged it to the dump one day and left it there... (dump guy thought all his Christmases' had come at once)

So - I'm thinking 7 x 4 single axle - only used for garden rubbish, camping and hauling kayaks...

Feeling I should avoid kitset ones from Save Barn....

What about Mitre 10? Seem awfully cheap... Maybe too cheap? https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/jobma...7-x-4/p/203476

NZ built ones seem to be about $2,200

Any experience?

[onearmedbandit]

Briford trailers are hugely popular, ChCh made with dealers across the country.

http://www.briford.co.nz/dealers.html

[jasonu]

Get a dual axle with brakes if you can afford it.

[Paul in NZ]

Get a dual axle with brakes if you can afford it.

Thanks for the input - but - No I cant afford it and I don't want it - its not needed and poor old car would turn its self inside out towing it

[Viking01]

Well since you are a bunch of mechanically minded opinionated bastards I may as well ask here...

So - Vicki and I are going to buy another trailer. Last one we had was an inherited home built job that gave me the heebeegeebees every time I used it until I just dragged it to the dump one day and left it there... (dump guy thought all his Christmases' had come at once)

So - I'm thinking 7 x 4 single axle - only used for garden rubbish, camping and hauling kayaks...

Feeling I should avoid kitset ones from Save Barn....

What about Mitre 10? Seem awfully cheap... Maybe too cheap? https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/jobma...7-x-4/p/203476

NZ built ones seem to be about $2,200

Any experience?

Since you're based up in Kapiti, perhaps have a look at Billabong Trailers in Petone.
http://www.billabongservices.co.nz/domestic-trailers

I bought one from them several years ago, after surveying those on offer via Mitre10 etc.
They are all hot dipped, and the build quality is good. The benefit of a marine ply deck is
that you don't have to spend large dollars in getting the deck replaced, which is what the
option when my deck of my previous metal decked trailer rusted out and failed WOF. Cheers

[HenryDorsetCase]

Thanks for the input - but - No I cant afford it and I don't want it - its not needed and poor old car would turn its self inside out towing it

if the doors pop open while towing you need to lighten the load a bit.

[Ocean1]

The Bro just had one made by these fellas:

http://www.foxeng.co.nz/

Haven't seen it but he thinks it's good value. Good to support the locals, too.

I wouldn't touch any of the Chinese kitset items with a barge pole, they're not fit for purpose.

Edit: materials for a decent 9ft x 5ft job with duratorques I made 10 years ago was well over $2k.

[jasonu]

if the doors pop open while towing you need to lighten the load a bit.

Tru dat sista!!!

[bogan]

Hot dip galv frame, decent thickness axle with sealed stubs (don't want the fucker rusting through from the inside), and just all round sturdy construction. Oh, don't both with those small wheeled fuckers either.

Size it based on your tow vehicle's capability, though it sounds like you're on top of that one.

[russd7]

for what you want just buy a second hand trailor, remember that a trailor is extremely easy to get re reged if it has lapsed and a lot of sellers are unaware so will let an un reged trailor go dirt cheap

[Ulsterkiwi]

Trayla in Levin. 7X4 with 3' cage if you need it plus jockey and spare wheel. $2495. We pick ours up on Friday. If you don't need the cage then minus 3 or 400 I think.


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[Akzle]

So - I'm thinking 7 x 4 single axle - only used for garden rubbish, camping and hauling kayaks...

Feeling I should avoid kitset ones from Save Barn....

What about Mitre 10? Seem awfully cheap... Maybe too cheap? https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/jobma...7-x-4/p/203476

NZ built ones seem to be about $2,200

Any experience?

single axle back "better" than tandem.
long draw bar = win.
tandem carry more with less need for balancing tongue load.
dual-wheels = more load with the peculiarities of tongue load.

independent suspension wins (dura-torques, wishbones, coils) solid axles (oh! ) are for gaycunts™ and townies. unless you live-beam the cunt with 18" of travel.

if you buy new, try and make sure parts (wheel bearings ie) are a) a good brand and b) available.
shing-wang-dun fucktory may make stub axles now, but in five years you may find youself looking for bearings that don't exist. trojan wins.


big is good.
legal o/s limit is 3.1 wide (i stand to be corrected, i don't give a fuck what the legislature says)

so get one of those.
possums only count with the passenger side trailing wheel. hits on motorcyclists only count if you were within your lane at the time.

4. dont tell any cunt you have it and dont lend it to any cunt ever.

[BMWST?]

i dont know what the difference is but 1 mates bike trailer is like a dream,barely know it s there and backs easily.The other one seems to make its presence felt all the time,and is a bastard to back.They are similar looking three bike trailers.The only local place i know of is fox eng.They always have a couple of trailers on display,main street foxton,right on SH1
i would get one that can take a full sheet of gib or ply,but if both ends of the tray fold down even the smallest 650kg one will take a few sheets

[tigertim20]

worth taking your time and looking in trademe for a second hand jobbie I reckon.

Wait till a second hand briford or something pops up. Having had a closer look at the likes of the bunnings / mitre 10 offerings, I would stay away from them.

I picked up a decent 7x4 trailer, with wof and reg, in good nick for $400 about 8 months ago. Just kept checking trademe each week and waited

[JimO]

i bought a 8x4 tandem Briford in 1986 when i started in business, its had a couple of decks and been rewired 3 times also fitted brakes to it after it lost a wheel with 2 ton of sand on it and as we were working out in the boonies also didnt have a spare the decision was made to drag it 10 ks to the job, its probably carried a couple of thousand tons of sand, cement over the years, its worth buying quality