I am thinking about buying a 16-18 foot car hauler flat bed style trailer for a few reasons and would like to get your thoughts on the matter. I lack a trailer in this size range at the moment, we have a little 5x8 bumper pull trailer as well as a 24 ft pipe top gooseneck and a 32 ft flatbed gooseneck, the little 5x8 is handy to haul a lawn tractor or other small load, but is just too small for a lot of stuff, and the goosenecks can be a hassle to connect, manouver, etc. Ideally I would like to get a tilt bed in the 18-20 foot range, but I just can't justify spending that kind of money, so instead I am looking at a couple of used 16-18 ft car haulers, the one that seems to be the best deal so far is a 16 ft with 2 ft dovetail, with a wood 83 inch wide deck, it is about 10 years old and is a quality brand name trailer with dual 3500 pound axles(no brakes though, which would be on my upgrade list), fairly new tires, pull out 5 ft ramps, price is about half the price that the same model goes for new with electric brakes. The other one I am considering is similar to the first, but is newer has an 18 ft deck with 2 ft dovetail, has side mounted slide in storage for ramps, not pull out in in place to use and cost about 75-80% of a new trailer. Do you think either of these would be enough trailer to haul a JD 990 with front end loader and a small bush hog or box blade GVRW is shown as 7700 pounds, tow vehicle would be 3/4 or 1 ton diesel truck (crew cab superduty F250, or standard cab Dodge 3500)? Tractor Data shows the 990 at 2,500 - 3,000 pounds, wheel base 69 inches, overall length 123 inches.
thanks for your feedback
p.s. another reason to get a trailer like this is many of the local hardware stores, etc. will only load flatbed style trailers by forklift, trailers with sides much be loaded by hand..
thanks for your feedback
p.s. another reason to get a trailer like this is many of the local hardware stores, etc. will only load flatbed style trailers by forklift, trailers with sides much be loaded by hand..
