Value of "Weeks Trailer " at auction?
- Thread starter Pilatus
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I will go to the Chittelgrove sale next week to see that one sold.
YorkshireAndrew
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- Location
- West / North Yorks border
We've a Weeks trailer , I think it's a 6t one . Same as the others it's the floor which has gone . Wonder what it's worth . [emoji848]
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Sounds to me like there would be a market for someone churning out new bases for weekes trailers, there must be shed loads about with rotted out floors that could do with a new one. The corner posts are always fine, and the sides last longer than the floors, so its just a flat steel frame with two heavy box sections for the hinge part thats required.
- Location
- Down on the edge of the world
Plus40 sold in a farm sale yesterday, grain sides on, still some paint on the floor made £825 + buyers premium and VaT
suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
Warwick do small trailers;https://www.warwicktrailers.co.uk/trailers/3-way-hydraulic-tip/
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SS
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- Darlington
- Location
- Darlington
I may of said this before but.............I really must have a sort out of all this old stuff.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
They really must have been the most rubbish design for a trailer ever, amazed any are still in use.
Gormers
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- Location
- east yorkshire
Got a wooden floored Weeks under a shed...
What's that worth ...more or less
What's that worth ...more or less
Roy_H
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We had a Weeks 6 ton trailer badged as MF. In all fairness the chassis was good but the body was truly awful. The " folded over tin" hinges on the sides were just a joke. We used to say "Weeks by name but weak by nature".
I remember the guy who bought it said he was going to " Finish it off" to use his words "By carting some builders rubble away with it .Then I'm going to make a completely new body for it"
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- Northumberland
I think they are one of the worst trailers ever made,and cant understand why anyone would want one.There are loads in farm sales up here,and make between £50 for scrap ones with no floor in (like the one i have got with a tree growing up through it),and maybe £450 for a really good one with a floor that hasnt got any holes in.They are rubbish,with a sort of pressed steel floor that is almost impossible to repair.
Used to have two, 7 ton tandem bogie axle, wooden floored weeks trailers at the estate where I grew up, hardy trailers till age and rough treatment got the better of themGot a wooden floored Weeks under a shed...
What's that worth ...more or less
REStracTORATION
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We have restored a few of these trailers over the years,
Can't help with a complete new bed but we had all new floor sections made and end caps.
We still have the drawings at the local Lazer cutting firm I think
Our plus 40 went away for scrap 15 years ago. Soft as
Got a couple of older Kay(Milnathort) trailers still in regular use.
One of them will be over 50 year old. Father says he remembers grandfather going to look at/buying it. Was one of the first they made with solid steel rather than wooden sides.
The newer part wooden sided one has got woodworm now though
Got a couple of older Kay(Milnathort) trailers still in regular use.
One of them will be over 50 year old. Father says he remembers grandfather going to look at/buying it. Was one of the first they made with solid steel rather than wooden sides.
The newer part wooden sided one has got woodworm now though
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WOODWORM !! ??
Selectamatic
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- North Wales
We had a Weeks trailer, seemed ok but the floor was a rot trapping nightmare.
Swapped it for a Richard Western a few years ago, an early one, built like a tank, needs an army of weetabix fed giants to put the tailboard back on!
Swapped it for a Richard Western a few years ago, an early one, built like a tank, needs an army of weetabix fed giants to put the tailboard back on!
@Goweresque I believe @REStracTORATION has done a few- I may be wrong but seem to remember in some pictures in an old restoration thread? Failing that I did wonder how viable it would be to produce a kit to replace the floors- certainly something we would look at but I suspect it would be cost prohibitive?
Gormers
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- east yorkshire
Used to have two, 7 ton tandem bogie axle, wooden floored weeks trailers at the estate where I grew up, hardy trailers till age and rough treatment got the better of them
Not been used for a while ours ...keroine (spelling) floor & sides.
Used to bolt a 4 ton grain tank to it for harvest.
REStracTORATION
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Yes I've done 4 of them now
We made ours out of 2mm tin folded into n profile then slotted them in side rails on and end caps.
The floors are a good design but a bad idea
I would make the next floor out of galvanized tin then paint