Pickup 5th wheel mini artic trailers

[michael N123]

http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eB...8&pm=1&ds=0&t=1516828170000&ver=0&cspheader=1 Could you actually legally tow a gross weight of 5300kg or is that wrong

 

[ollandroverman]

http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eB...8&pm=1&ds=0&t=1516828170000&ver=0&cspheader=1 Could you actually legally tow a gross weight of 5300kg or is that wrong

It is correct. Depending upon your pickup, you are adding your allowable weight imposed upon your loadbed to the normal trailer towing limit. You are not upping your train weight limit.
I have looked with interest at this previously when I was needing to shift heavier diggers around. The biggest problem is the sheer cost. I could add a wagon to my fleet for many years and still cost less than one of these trailers and hitches.

 

[jellybean]

Gooseneck trailers are great, except that UK laws make them prohibitively expensive. I did some work years ago for Douglas Lake Cattle Company in Canada. The ranch hands would put 5 horses and all their tack in a gooseneck trailer and go off to work. @Blaithin would be able to tells more about that kind of transport probably. The trailers have electric brakes which are not allowed here, so that leaves air brakes with all the attendant expense. Bateson trailers used to make 5th wheel trailers I think.

 

[Rowland]

 

[smcapstick]

I looked in to them, too. They’re very good... but as @ollandroverman said above, the system is a fortune. It would genuinely be cheaper to buy a little wagon and do your licenses (or, if you CBA, pay a guy to drive it when you need it moving).

 

[vantage]

My foot trimmer has a Navara 6 cylinder pickup which pulls his crush on a 5 th wheel.No not cheap but solid,safe and no weaving.Trimmer on the road every day,has bought an ex council Iveco transit type tractor unit as a back up.

 

[ollandroverman]

My foot trimmer has a Navara 6 cylinder pickup which pulls his crush on a 5 th wheel.No not cheap but solid,safe and no weaving.Trimmer on the road every day,has bought an ex council Iveco transit type tractor unit as a back up.

How big is his crush if he is struggling with ordinary (cheaper) methods of towing it around?

 

[Blaithin]

Gooseneck trailers are great, except that UK laws make them prohibitively expensive. I did some work years ago for Douglas Lake Cattle Company in Canada. The ranch hands would put 5 horses and all their tack in a gooseneck trailer and go off to work. @Blaithin would be able to tells more about that kind of transport probably. The trailers have electric brakes which are not allowed here, so that leaves air brakes with all the attendant expense. Bateson trailers used to make 5th wheel trailers I think.

Goosenecks are very common here and the nose of the trailers are extra handy. Especially in stock trailers. I can remember a few times riding in the nose with all the other paraphernalia that ends up up there.

Haven’t had any experience with fifth wheel hitches though. They’re a pain in the ass since they take up so much of the truck box or bed. The goosenecks are handier since they leave you all that room.

Would have to be a fairly large trailer here to require air brakes. All the ones I own or have parked here are electric. Pretty sure you need your class 3 before you’re driving anything that can pull something with air.

 

[vantage]

Think it weighs about 3t,a joy to observe it in use as it has been so well designed and built.Trimmer's second crush of its type,soon to go for a new one.

 

[Cardi]

Think it weighs about 3t,a joy to observe it in use as it has been so well designed and built.Trimmer's second crush of its type,soon to go for a new one.

He’s got it

 

[vantage]

He’s got it

Galvanised?

 

[Cardi]

Yes