Has it worked out okay? I plan on getting the folding one, but putting plywood across it for increased stability.

My question invovles loading... I think you can tilt the trailer on its back for loading and unloading, but if you load it up in the air when you drive the ATV on, does the trailer tounge slam to the ground? What about unloading? does the rear end of the trailer slam down?

Thanks for all input.

 

You should hitch it to a vehicle before you load it. That will stop that. I wouldn't load ANY trailer without it being hitched. You never know what the weight shift is going to do to it.

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it will get the job done for local short hauls

those trailers do have a purpose,,,,,,but if you are looking for a trailer to hang on to,,and maybe have some resale value , you might want to go one step further and get a 5x8 with the ramp and the rails for 500

like the one under my 400 on my pic page

better value

 

okay, I was looking at the pictures wrong. THe trailer can stay hitched to the car while it tilts...DOH.

So even with the 12" tires, you dont think it would be good enough for a 150 mile round trip at about 75 MPH once a month?
Im not too concerned with resale value, as I see one on Ebay right now that is 3 years old going for 158 and it still has 24 hours left. But even then, Im not too concerned with resale.

Main thing is safe for 75 mph for 75 miles, Cool for a few hours and 75 miles at 75 mph back home.

 

It would work.

 

Be wary of HF trailers. There are many horror stories, esp of wheel bearings locking up.

 

the 5x8 i used to have I bought at HF,,,it was well built. Wish i still had it.

 

Ive done some googling of the trailer. Ive only seen 2 cases of bearing failure. And one of them was from bearings being torqued to 90 ft/lbs [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Ive seen some people with the 8" tired trailers hauling at 95 MPH and talk about how well they do.

The main complaint is that the licence plate will get bent if you use the stock location if you tilt the bed of the trailer down.

 

i have the 12inch series from HF, i used to drive my rancher up after tilting the bed back on the trailer, the only problem was it would slam down so hard, i knew i was going to break it if i kept doing it, the bars that it slams into are the only bars that connect to the car, and are somewhat thin, i ended up building ramps into the back of mine, now people constantly come over and look at my trailer, i have about 900 miles on mine since this summer all at speeds around 70-75 with no problems, the tires and bearings get warm, but never hot, don't worry about the trailer people just want to justify spending 900 bucks for the same thing

 

The smaller wheels of course spin faster...so lubrication is the key. You need to grease them well and often. I am getting a pair of bearing buddies (boat trailer style) for mine so I can just hook up the grease gun and pump a little every so often.