100% correctOnly cos you can't back one up .
Because they only go foward. Backwards with one is witch craft
Artic trailer to ag trailer
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Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
I’ve been searching eBay for a cheapiah one. If I can get it at the right money then donkey engine and crane were away.
Dolly trailers are more stable , drawbar take 10 seconds longer to get stuck
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Trailer on dolly will always look like an artic.
Step frame trailer cut, drawbarred, lit and braked will look the part and behave itself.
My opinion.
Step frame trailer cut, drawbarred, lit and braked will look the part and behave itself.
My opinion.
- Location
- North of Perth
Amazing the places you can get in with a dolly. Right enough meeting artics on narrow roads isn't much fun.
- Location
- East yorks
Dolly’s need to be made semi permanent so you don’t fall foul of the fact it’s seen as 2 trailers if you can remove the dolly and in this case the second trailer cannot be loaded
The pin can be repaced by a bolt and that then counts as permanent doesnt it?
Still the work of a devil. Ask anyone whos even tried to move the stupid whole crop headers!
Wellytrack
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Would a lorry trailer not flex and bend as that’s how they are meant to work on the fifth wheel.
Yes , that's why a drawbar tips over
Wellytrack
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Less than ideal then.
Wouldn’t be heavily made things either, would put take much rust to compromise them I’d think?
- Location
- northumberland
Get yourself a copy of truck/plant trader Loads in there, if air isn’t a problem get 1 on air brakes and suspension any decent fabricator should be able to make you a dolly no problem and replace the 24v lights for 12v job done
Post Driver
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- Location
- South East
These guys look to do a tidy job
- Location
- northumberland
Phillip Watkins will make you whatever you want even an artic conversion
- Location
- The North
Broughtan trailers? Yorkshire makes these all the time around 3.5/4K ask him
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- Location
- Yorkshire
That's James barraclough. He'd make you one with sockets in side rails to so you could put posts in and put a rail on. If you found one I'm sure he'd put you hiab crane on front but I'd pipe it to work off tractor one less thing to be relying on in Field. Not be good if donkey engine packed upBroughtan trailers? Yorkshire makes these all the time around 3.5/4K ask him
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- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
It’s amazing where you can get a dolly trailer, and they are amazingly stable, but too heavy if you want to stay legal.
When / if the weight limit changes I will go dolly straight away but in the meantime drawbar is king.
All trailers should be CE marked and plated, but you can do this yourself.
Edit: the last conversion I did came in at about £6k IIRC, plus the trailer we already had.
However it had all new led lights, new floor, new sprung drawbar, full blast and paint.
When / if the weight limit changes I will go dolly straight away but in the meantime drawbar is king.
All trailers should be CE marked and plated, but you can do this yourself.
Edit: the last conversion I did came in at about £6k IIRC, plus the trailer we already had.
However it had all new led lights, new floor, new sprung drawbar, full blast and paint.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Yep, cant see the point of cutting them up, chuck a dolly on and crack on.
If you cant manage a dolly, you probably shouldn't be on the road at 50k with a drawbar trailer.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
James makes some nice trailers
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kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
ollie989898
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Trouble with dolly is no weight on the tractor, how many HGVs would be prepared to pull any weight on a truck with no weight on the 5ft wheel?
My brain doesn't do reverse-reversing at all so that is me out.
My brain doesn't do reverse-reversing at all so that is me out.