Yes, very nice, just need to watch the tail swing, and also where placing it when dropping off as it’s very balanced and the eye likes to lift up
Bale trailer
- Thread starter DanM33
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Fit a load sensing valve to cure that problem
Tandem axle up to 27/8ft long, tri axle anything above that makes a tremendous difference.
Billy basic 15.3 tyres only any good under about 6t and 30k
Super singles fine on the road, and cheap, but not good in wet fields.
We have a 17' Scaling on bogies on 15.3 standard wheels (8t tipper with a bale extension) used 90% of the time behind a telehandler. Handy when there's a few more bales than the big trailers can get on, and for carrying taty planting paraphernalia
25' Easterby tandem sprung axle on super singles. Good, handy, bit high ideally. Straw & potato seed boxes, occasionally behind telehandler on straw if we're a man down & there's a lot of little fields.
33' Barraclough triaxle. Amazing trailer. New build not a lorry conversion. Sprung everything, on supers, no load sensing but not an issue. Strap eyes and rope hooks. It follows way better than a tandem axle 32' Triffit we used to hire. The biggest flaw in a tandem axle 32' bale trailer imo is the axles are too close together, which makes them twitchy.
All have hydraulic brakes, led lights, strap boxes & straps.
Billy basic 15.3 tyres only any good under about 6t and 30k
Super singles fine on the road, and cheap, but not good in wet fields.
We have a 17' Scaling on bogies on 15.3 standard wheels (8t tipper with a bale extension) used 90% of the time behind a telehandler. Handy when there's a few more bales than the big trailers can get on, and for carrying taty planting paraphernalia
25' Easterby tandem sprung axle on super singles. Good, handy, bit high ideally. Straw & potato seed boxes, occasionally behind telehandler on straw if we're a man down & there's a lot of little fields.
33' Barraclough triaxle. Amazing trailer. New build not a lorry conversion. Sprung everything, on supers, no load sensing but not an issue. Strap eyes and rope hooks. It follows way better than a tandem axle 32' Triffit we used to hire. The biggest flaw in a tandem axle 32' bale trailer imo is the axles are too close together, which makes them twitchy.
All have hydraulic brakes, led lights, strap boxes & straps.
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grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
Looks to have Gb plate, and right hand drive ?
ollandroverman
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- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
They are legal, but very expensive.
I seriously looked into them a few years ago because I had a need for more payload then a standard trailer could carry to move a machine.
ollandroverman
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Depends on the towing vehicle, but you may be in the area of a 3.5 ton payload, give or take a couple hundred kilos
So no more than on a tow ball?
ollandroverman
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The question asked was payload, not gross weight!
grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
Got too be more than 3.5 ton on that trailer, think they might be bale packs of conventional bales,
I do like the set up though,
I do like the set up though,
13 packs of 20?
grainboy
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6 ton ish then !!
If the trailer weighs a ton the bales would need to be 8.3kg each to be legal.
It does look right,till you weigh it.
fermerboy
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- Banffshire
With the Gooseneck being in the bed, Do you get the bed weight and trailer weight combined?
On some pickups that could be an extra tonne, Think there is somebody who lets you have a full trailer and loaded bed in the gross train weight.
Think the goosenecks have electric brakes, certainly in USA and Canada, not sure if they are legal here in UK though. I read on here that they weren't(must be true!!!)
I have friends in Canada who run a 32ft gooseneck flat behind a pickup, big old Ford truck mind.
I alway thought that gooseneck trailers are they way forward on pickups. Much more stable even with a normal length trailer on.
The ball is too far back from the rear axle on most trucks, the old 90 and Fourtrak had the ball hitch practically on the axle, pickups have to be so much longer on the wheelbase to compensate.
On some pickups that could be an extra tonne, Think there is somebody who lets you have a full trailer and loaded bed in the gross train weight.
Think the goosenecks have electric brakes, certainly in USA and Canada, not sure if they are legal here in UK though. I read on here that they weren't(must be true!!!)
I have friends in Canada who run a 32ft gooseneck flat behind a pickup, big old Ford truck mind.
I alway thought that gooseneck trailers are they way forward on pickups. Much more stable even with a normal length trailer on.
The ball is too far back from the rear axle on most trucks, the old 90 and Fourtrak had the ball hitch practically on the axle, pickups have to be so much longer on the wheelbase to compensate.
ollandroverman
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- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Yes, you get 3.5 tons trailer weight, plus your bed payload allowance. In my case my Land Rover would carry 1.3 tons, thus I could tow a 4.7 tons gross gooseneck trailer.
Electric brakes were not legal here when I was seriously looking into these trailers a few years ago, however, they were legal in Europe, so some people were dubiously passing them as off as ok here.
To guarantee legality here you needed to fit a twin line trailer air brake system to your towing vehicle.
Also, due to it being a somewhat novel way of towing with a smaller commercial vehicle in this country, you are going to be a magnet for VOSA inspectors.
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ollandroverman
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I can see no reference to electric brakes. Houghton do have an upgrade option of hydraulic inertia brakes.
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