Plant / flat trailer buying advice

puntabrava

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Location
Wiltshire
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This one will be up for sale soon on one of those specialist sale sites. Another plant trailer idiot. Cannot be long before someone welds a ring hitch on the front of a tractor unit and reverses the Massey up to it and claims it to be a power pack for legislation purposes.
 
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YELROM

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
View attachment 665032 This one will be up for sale soon on one of those specialist sale sites. Another plant trailer idiot. Cannot be long before someone welds a ring hitch on the front of a tractor unit and reverses the Massey up to it and claims it to be a power pack for legislation purposes.

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Putting it on wagon makes no difference, if it don't fit it don't fit
No replacement for common scene
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Looks good

Just had Stewart quote - very high spec high speed hydraulic bever tail, twist locks and steel deck etc but .,,,,,,,,

24k for the tri axle and 22.25k for the twin
 
Thing we haven't totally decided yet is how to put the 8000l Enduramax tank + mixer tank on skid frame on and off the flatbed. Was thinking about using our demount Bateman jacks to integrate into the skid frame. We thought that making pallet fork sleeves was a bit unstable, as was putting in lifting eyes and lifting it on with strops using the telehandler.
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Thing we haven't totally decided yet is how to put the 8000l Enduramax tank + mixer tank on skid frame on and off the flatbed. Was thinking about using our demount Bateman jacks to integrate into the skid frame. We thought that making pallet fork sleeves was a bit unstable, as was putting in lifting eyes and lifting it on with strops using the telehandler.

Can you weld telehandler brackets to the frame?
 
For 20 od thousand wouldn’t you be better with a bowser and a plant trailer rather than trying to combine the two

Ours was a lot less than 20k. We could not afford a plant trailer and a dedicated bowser. We could justify this trailer because it can do several jobs for us: taking water / fert tanks, moving seed, moving bagged fert and moving equipment around.
 
Can you weld telehandler brackets to the frame?

We thought about that. One of our telehandlers though has floating forks. Get the brackets incorrectly placed relative to the centre of mass (which will change if there is a small amount of liquid left in either front or back tank) and it could be quite unbalanced. It's still a possibility, but we didn't like the idea for this reason.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
For 20 od thousand wouldn’t you be better with a bowser and a plant trailer rather than trying to combine the two

I don’t expect a decent professional build bowser is cheap ?

I’m not going to spend 20k plus though - it’s just a quote and probably a bit ott on spec ! I think alternatives will be cheaper
 

davedb

Member
Location
Staffordshire
Ours was a lot less than 20k. We could not afford a plant trailer and a dedicated bowser. We could justify this trailer because it can do several jobs for us: taking water / fert tanks, moving seed, moving bagged fert and moving equipment around.
Yea I can see that and it looks a smart trailer,

could you make some legs for your body as you said, drop pickup hitch to floor and put back legs in the body, lift your hitch right up which would jack the back of the body up off the trailer then put your front legs in and lower pickup hitch to half way leaving the body suspended then pull out from underneath
 
Yea I can see that and it looks a smart trailer,

could you make some legs for your body as you said, drop pickup hitch to floor and put back legs in the body, lift your hitch right up which would jack the back of the body up off the trailer then put your front legs in and lower pickup hitch to half way leaving the body suspended then pull out from underneath

That was our thinking. It's just how good are our reversing skills and will it be very tricky to get everything exactly lined up. That said, putting it on with the forklift will still require some precision.
 

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