Twin or tri axle livestock trailer?

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Which is the better bet for hauling heifers on mainly motorways/dual carriageway- twin or tri axle?
500 mile round trip but only loaded one way
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Having had both a triple definitely better but you will wear more tires. Correct loading helps and of course a triple gets to 3500kg gross weight very easily.

Now the questions can start about gross weight, train weight, tachos, driver certificates, etc
 

Drillman

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Mixed Farmer
We used to have twin axle wheels outside and went to tri axle wheels underneath 16 year ago. All Edwards trailers.


3 axle tows a lot nicer and to be honest on those 10 inch wheels the weight of an extra axle is negligible compared to how much more stable it is.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Which is the better bet for hauling heifers on mainly motorways/dual carriageway- twin or tri axle?
500 mile round trip but only loaded one way

IMO, having used all variations, a triaxle with wheels on the outside tows most smoothly. If it’s a rattly Ifor you can always keep the windows wound up and the radio’s volume up, but a triaxle with wheels on the outside will still be most stable.

If it were a choice between a triaxle with wheels under, or a twin axle with wheels outside, I would probably go with the twin axle though.
In all cases, make sure the tyre pressures are all equal though, especially before a long trip.

Incidentally, I did just such a trip yesterday, with a triaxle (wheels on outside) Gamic, picking a full, load of lambs up. Cruise control, motorway, radio up and aircon wound up. Tbh, I wish I could have been doing the same today, instead of sweating like the proverbial pig.
 

Hilly

Member
IMO, having used all variations, a triaxle with wheels on the outside tows most smoothly. If it’s a rattly Ifor you can always keep the windows wound up and the radio’s volume up, but a triaxle with wheels on the outside will still be most stable.

If it were a choice between a triaxle with wheels under, or a twin axle with wheels outside, I would probably go with the twin axle though.
In all cases, make sure the tyre pressures are all equal though, especially before a long trip.

Incidentally, I did just such a trip yesterday, with a triaxle (wheels on outside) Gamic, picking a full, load of lambs up. Cruise control, motorway, radio up and aircon wound up. Tbh, I wish I could have been doing the same today, instead of sweating like the proverbial pig.
Do gamic make a 3 axle wheels under ?
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Having had both a triple definitely better but you will wear more tires. Correct loading helps and of course a triple gets to 3500kg gross weight very easily.

Now the questions can start about gross weight, train weight, tachos, driver certificates, etc
Don't forget the towing vehicle








And the breed of heifers ......
 

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Got a 14ft Tri axle. Has done a lot of mway work and pulls well. Only thing to watch, if you only have a couple of cows in make sure the internal gates are keeping them middle & front. If they both stand at the back it gets interesting !
 

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