New Grain trailers, what are the options?

FBain4532

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Looking at upgrading grain trailers for 2020 harvest. Planning on 14 ton on floatation, Keen to stay withing the legal trailer weight limit. They are only for grain and will be driven by students so a good budget trailer is what I'm thinking. What are the options? Proforge from Agrilinc look appealling.
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
From experience the door replying on hydraulic pressure to keep it closed puts me off. I prefer the doors that drop down into catches as trailers will be loaded with grain and left for periods in the winter.
Most hyd doors u could disconnect pipes and they wouldn’t open
 

Robert K

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
From experience the door replying on hydraulic pressure to keep it closed puts me off. I prefer the doors that drop down into catches as trailers will be loaded with grain and left for periods in the winter.
Richard larrington
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Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
From experience the door replying on hydraulic pressure to keep it closed puts me off. I prefer the doors that drop down into catches as trailers will be loaded with grain and left for periods in the winter.

The body on them also sits very high compared to many other makes.
May or maybe not be an issue depending on the type of student driver @coolcow employs;)

Sure you are not confusing Stewart with Marston @Deutzdx3?
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Smyth, brilliant trailers and wont break the bank, built very well indeed and tow nicely. Have a couple of 14t here, floatations/led's the works.
 

shumungus

Member
Livestock Farmer
I don’t think bailey trailers are what they were in the past.id put Stewart at the top by a mile.for budget trailers there are plenty built in Ireland but at the end of the day you will get what you pay for
Nick...
That must be why Kane, Herron, Smyth and Broughan are being exported to the other side of the world...………., because they are a budget trailer. I mean if you are going to go to the effort of shipping a box on wheels half way around the Globe your better off starting with a mediocre product. There is a dealer here in NI selling (or trying to) Stewart Trailers, he towed the same big blue 'bells and whistles' trailer around all the shows last year, he must have really liked it because he seemed to want to keep it, or was it maybe that no-one wanted to buy it? never mind. Don't know what the fascination is with Stewart Trailers in GB, is it a brand snobbery thing? the trailer I seen last year with the rust stains on the side marker lights and standard boxy build quality didn't enamour me in any way. There are Joskins and Krampes floating about over here and if you seen the level of spec that some of the contractors and farmers run over here its obviously not a cost thing. So there is something about them when the only one I know of here is a second hand black one that is used as a rolling store for woodchip.
So if your advising the OP that trailers built over on this side of the sheugh are budget trailers, and it is a budget trailer he is wanting, thanks very much for the business the OP won't go far wrong with his purchase.
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
Marshall, often overlooked.
Have a look at their trailer builder tool on their website then give them a phone. Very obliging team.
Definitely a budget trailer but not a budget price. Don't like their "dealer fit ready" optional extras idea, if you don't spec the extras the trailer looks unfinished.
 

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