31ft stock box

[beltextexel]

Currently pricing up a 31ft stock box. It’s a 3 decker so would carry potentially 14t of ewes (roughly). Trailer I’m looking at weighs around 4.6t. Unsure on the weight of the box. Anybody know the legalities around how much weight you can tow behind a tractor? Also out of interest, how many hp do people think suitable for towing the above? Cheers

 

[michael N123]

Maximum combined weight for tractor and trailer is 31ton

 

[Al R]

Fastrac 4220, why mess around?

 

[HarryB97]

We used to have 200hp on the front of a twin deck 28footer which was a huge improvement over 150hp. Very rarley if ever struggled for power on the road and great in a muddy field. I would be cautious of going for a tripple decker if your lands wet, fields are hilly or your roads are narrow they are very top heavy as well as the load moving you can't let anyone tow it about.

 

[Pebd99]

31ton gross weight but the trailer cannot be more than 18ton of that weight.

 

[Jim75]

You’ll be overweight if that doesn’t include the box aswell. How many are you hoping to get in 190-200? Could you go 36ft but 2 decker? We’ve got a 30ft 2 decker and will get 145 big Suffolk x ewes or aberfields in. It’s on 145hp and it’s fine for the road in fact it was 125hp up until a few months ago. If you’re on steep wet stuff it might not be enough

 

[beltextexel]

We tend to put 100 - 125 Chev mule ewes in our 28ft-2deck box depending on the time of year. At 75kg, that’s roughly 9t. Weight of the trailer say 4.5t. What will be the box weigh?

 

[Jim75]

We tend to put 100 - 125 Chev mule ewes in our 28ft-2deck box depending on the time of year. At 75kg, that’s roughly 9t. Weight of the trailer say 4.5t. What will be the box weigh?

We’ve just made up extension forks to allow us to remove our Stewart top with one man one vehicle rather than 3 men and tractors and the 3.1t lift is right on the limit any heavier and it wouldn’t manage

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Since when has a farmer been worried about being overweight....

(And I don’t mean his waistline)

 

[Andrew]

Maximum weight of the trailer, including stock box, livestock, and anything else, is 18.29t behind a tractor. There is no legal way to exceed this behind a tractor.

 

[Bill dog]

We’ve just made up extension forks to allow us to remove our Stewart top with one man one vehicle rather than 3 men and tractors and the 3.1t lift is right on the limit any heavier and it wouldn’t manage

And a lot easier to do than with my bro and I on opposite sides of the trailer with a telehandler each with both of us trying to lift the deck off while watching our dad conduct the orchestra, or he may have been impersonating John Mcririck !

 

[Hilly]

Like this.

 

[Jim75]

And a lot easier to do than with my bro and I on opposite sides of the trailer with a telehandler each with both of us trying to lift the deck off while watching our dad conduct the orchestra, or he may have been impersonating John Mcririck !

Yeah that’s pretty much how it’d be
?

 

[Skintagain]

Currently pricing up a 31ft stock box. It’s a 3 decker so would carry potentially 14t of ewes (roughly). Trailer I’m looking at weighs around 4.6t. Unsure on the weight of the box. Anybody know the legalities around how much weight you can tow behind a tractor? Also out of interest, how many hp do people think suitable for towing the above? Cheers

Sounds a bit greedy to me. Centre of gravity will be high. You will have as much weight on the top two decks swaying as the bottom And the trailer weighs holding them down so to speak.

 

[sticky]

There a farm near me who's had there three decker tip over twice killing a number of sheep.

 

[Andrew]

There a farm near me who's had there three decker tip over twice killing a number of sheep.

No experience of triple deckers but plenty with cattle and high loads of straw, I’d want 3 axles to feel safe.
All our straw trailers are 28-30ft and have 3 axles.

 

[sticky]

From memory it a twin axle and the back roads around here throw you one way and then the other.

 

[sticky]

@beltextexel are you selling your two deck box?

 

[beltextexel]

I would be selling it if I found the right box/trailer somewhere. Although, once you work the figures out to remain somewhere near legal, there’s maybe not much point going to 3 decks. I think I’m above 17t with a full load of ewes on at the minute, so I’d soon be at 18t with even a 24ft 3 decker.