Trailers With Equipment/Landscape Gate

[Lil_FarmerJim]

I would check out the MudHens trailers. Sold by these guys in New Britain, Pa (New Britain, Pennsylvania, Can-Am, Ski-Doo, Sea-Doo, ATV, Utility Vehicle, Snowmobile, Dealer, Used, Parts, Accessorie, Apparel)

I have a 10k landscaper with ladder racks on the mesh lift gates. I've been very pleased with it. Heavy gauge box steel construction all around. The gate is a split gate, making it easier to get up and down. (With the pin left in to make it a single gate the thing weights a ton.

Sorry I don't have any photos of it. But I can try and get a few tomorrow, if it stops raining.

 

[Baucom]

Hudson builds equipment trailers with a nice, heavy, expanded metal gate that has spring assist. Dad's 5 ton Hudson has a gate on it and it only requires one hand to lift it, plus the springs also keep it from slamming down when you drop it. It doesn't have the ladder style reinforcements, but doesn't really need them. We've loaded 8000# tractors on it without bending the mesh between the uprights.

 

[Krewz]

I have a BX25 also and I bought an Appalachian Trailer. It has a spring assisted ramp with the ladder type reinforcement your talking about. The trailer was $2100 new. The company has a location just off off the PA Turnpike on Rt-72 in Manheim, Pa.

The trailer came standard with electric brakes on all four wheels and a break away kit. I got the spare tire and the 80" wide deck. I bought it a few months ago and I think the price went up a bit since, but still affordable.

I haul my BX25 about 300 miles round trip up to Wellsboro, Pa. a couple times a month and I'm very happy with the trailer.

Utility Trailers Illinois

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Thanks everyone for the replies! The Diamond C Trailers look nice.

 

[gtrippleb]

Looking at pictures, it looks like the Appalachian and Kaufman trailers are the same except kaufman has their sticker on the tongue.

 

[Runner]

PJ offers that style on their 8 inch I-beam trailers.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Almost any manufacturer offers gates. Like others have said, the mesh ones are worthless for tractors, unless they are reinforced. I had a gate on my single axle 6.5 x 12 single axle trailer. It handled my mowers and my BX just fine. I did not like the fact that it limited my deck length- I went with stowable ramps on my new tandem-it's nice to be able to let my bush hog tail wheel hang off a foot or so, let's me balance my load.

Will

This is what I was getting at. I have a 18' long trailer and in the last week I have hauled 2 things that were 20' long and 24' long. No way I could have done it with a gate. I have ramps that pull out from under the rear of the trailer. Works great and takes all of 20 seconds to set them up to load or unload.

I have done the garage door spring thing on 2 of my customers trailers. It makes life much easier but the gate still limits the utility of the trailer.

Chris

 

[newt92]

Does anyone know any trailer manufactures that make a trailer with a equipment/landscape ramp except for Kaufman??? One with a gate like this:

This is the gate on a Sikeston Missouri built trailer I have. I sent them a design of what I wanted and the measurements. Its made of 2 inch tubing.

Another trailer I have, my design and built by a friend of mine. Angle iron.

Like Will said, any manufacture should build you one, just let them know the design and specs.

 

[tommu56]

I don't know were you are in sepa but the are 2 mfg in the area

Goosneck Trailers | Bri-Mar Hydraulic Dump Trailers | Hurst Utility Trailers

and
Trailers - Ringo Hill Farms Equipment Co.

dealers

Horse Trailers, Landscape, Dump Inserts, Cargo Containers, Utility, Motorcycle, Car Haulers, ATV, Storage

Fink's Trailer Sales,

Finks Garage, Fink's Trailer & Camper Sales
441 Pine Road
Hamburg, PA 19526-8710 map
Reading, PA Metro Area Phone: (610) 562-4627 tom

 

[Skyco]

This is what I was getting at. I have a 18' long trailer and in the last week I have hauled 2 things that were 20' long and 24' long. No way I could have done it with a gate. I have ramps that pull out from under the rear of the trailer. Works great and takes all of 20 seconds to set them up to load or unload.

I have done the garage door spring thing on 2 of my customers trailers. It makes life much easier but the gate still limits the utility of the trailer.

Chris

A Carry-On trailer I used to have had the gate sized so it would fold over forward flat against the deck...two advantages to that
1> Dramatically cut the wind resistance hauling the trailer somewhere empty, even mesh has a lot of drag.
2> Lets you haul long items that the stand up gate would block.