trailer skid

[JohnDeere8530]

busy time of year, so no time to knock one up.... anyone know of anyone that sells trailer skids as mine has been pulled off. My only real want is it needs to be quite tall 9" or so. The ones on the net are only ever 6"

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Sparex, krampe, spaldings pretty much any of the parts people your local dealer stock

 

[Nearly]

Does your welder not work in the dark?
Nothing will be as strong as a lump of railway sleeper, or 2.

 

[Netherfield]

Yon new welder must be a good un if it'll weld railway sleepers.

 

[quattro]

busy time of year, so no time to knock one up.... anyone know of anyone that sells trailer skids as mine has been pulled off. My only real want is it needs to be quite tall 9" or so. The ones on the net are only ever 6"

Baileys are quite tall

 

[BuskhillFarm]

busy time of year, so no time to knock one up.... anyone know of anyone that sells trailer skids as mine has been pulled off. My only real want is it needs to be quite tall 9" or so. The ones on the net are only ever 6"

Phone the factory of wherever made the trailer?

 

[Steevo]

I needed one for my Collins trailer a few years back after somehow it went for a walk - AW Trailers made up one exactly like the old one and sent it to me.

 

[Courier]

In the days of changing trailers on and off the forage harvester every load I made skids from thick walled box section the same width and no wider than the trailer drawbars. The forward end was sloping so as to ride over swaths without dragging and extended up to the original fixing hole through the drawbar. The skid was about 70 cm long and obviously unbalanced so on top of the rear of the skid I welded a forward facing tongue and a corresponding sliding fixing point under the drawbar. These skids were somewhat heavy but nevertheless could be attached and removed by one person sitting on the ground balancing the rear of the skid on a boot toe whilst manouvering the front to insert the original fixing pin. The geometry was such that the skid bottom was flat on the floor when the trailer was unhitched and allowed plenty of room for hooking up.
They actually never came off the trailers because they were very successful at traversing swaths of all different crops without dragging and exhibited a far lower ground pressure than anything else available at the time, or probably now.
Should have patented it !

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