Total newbie here . . . just picked up a tilt bed 8x8 snowmobile trailer and will be going to get my first 2 quads tomorrow. How do get both on the trailer without ramps?
The only thing I can come up with is drive one up just so the 4 wheels are on, then drive the other one all the way to the front and then go back and drive the first one up to the front. Will this work or do I need to get ramps?

 

That is about what I do. If by self, get 1st machine close to trailer, stand on back of trailer to tilt it, reach up to throttle to get 1st atv wheels onto back to hold it tilted, get on & drive it up. If trailer tilts back down back up til is down ready for other. Drive it on pretty well forward til trailer is back normal, then drive other on rest of the way. Been doing it this way a few years. with my Triton tilt.

 

i remember i had this little trailer. i talking like 4 to 5 feet wide and like 6 to 8 feet long and when we did not have a ramp so we put the first one on there stood it up then we had to stand the other quad up at the back of the trailer and just lift it onto the trailer. good thing it was a yfz450 so it didnt wiegh anything. you should be able to do something like this.

 

You can get a hand jack that will mount on the tongue of the trailer that will allow you to jack the bed up and down. This power tilt feature makes loading more than one item on a tilt bed a lot easier. A hydraulic dampener, a 50/50 shock absorber works on small tilt beds, to keep the bed from slamming up and down is another nice feature to have.

With the bed jacked up in the front you can run both quads to their tie down points and then lower the bed into travel position. Makes loading and unloading very easy.

 

Well sewerrat if it was me i would have someone to help with the loading of the atv's , have someone lift the trailer bed up enough for you to get your front wheel's on the trailer far enough to keep the bed in the raised position , then have the second person get on the other atv and just ride them both on the trailer ; all the way to the front ! Then put the hitch pin back in the hole that keep's the bed from tilting and strap down the atv's , and you're ready to go ! I had a tilt bed trailer that held 2 quad;s ( But it got stolen ) don't loan your trailer to an unreliable person , that's how mine got stolen ; and i never saw it again ! But like i was saying i did have a double tilt bed trailer , that we use to haul three quad's ! My trailer had a Mul - TI funktion steel mesh Ramp gate weled on the rear of the trailer , but i never used the tilt bed and i used my trailer to load and haul 3 atv's at a time ; of coarse there was a trick to do this ! How i did it was open the tail gate after i hitched the trailer and light harness and safey chain's , i Bought one of those TRI - Fold Aluminum loading ramp's from Harbor Freight Tools in Chattanooga TN. for $79.99 and i would unfold the ramp's and hook the safey chain's to the truck tail gate latching slot's ; then i would ride one quad into the trailer up the ramp's and into the truck bed ! Then i would strap down the quad inside the truck bed and shut the tail gate ; and load the other 2 quad's onto the trailer and strap them down ! Then all that was left to do was raise and latch the trailer's ramp gate , then load the riding gear , ice chest and we were ready to go to the mountain's for a good long day's ride ! Getting the quad's loaded was the easy part , remembering all the gear we needed to take with us was the hardest part ; even if we had everything but the kitchen sink we had to go back and get it or something like it ! We just couldn't seem to get thing's organized , and think ahead far enough to remember it all like some people do ; maybe it's because i'm not married ? I just don't know , even if iwere married i would would foget her ! Anyway's i hope this is of some help to you or other's on the forums .

 

Sewerrat - Instead of dicking around with loading one quad half way, loading the other quad and then completely loading the first quad - over and over and over again every time you ride, why not spend the $80 bucks needed to get a folding aluminum ramp as mentioned above, keep the tilt trailer locked and drive both quads up the raom and onto the trailer.

Jaybee

 

Then you have to dick around with the ramp. getting it out, putting it on, taking it off, stowing it somewhere. No thanks.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: jaybeecon55

Sewerrat - Instead of dicking around with loading one quad half way, loading the other quad and then completely loading the first quad - over and over and over again every time you ride, why not spend the $80 bucks needed to get a folding aluminum ramp as mentioned above, keep the tilt trailer locked and drive both quads up the raom and onto the trailer.



Jaybee</end quote></div>

Winner!
I just picked up one of these
http://www.discountramps.com/bifold-atv-ramp.htm


Driving an automatic up the tilted trailer isn't so bad, but the sport quad was a little scary. Much easier to pull out the ramp.

 

sewerrat if what you're looking for is ramp's here are 2 moer site's to check out www.harborfreight.com and when you get to the site just type in Ramps or type in item 90018-7VGA this item isn't on sale right now , but it goes on sale about once a month for $79.99 i bought one about 8 year's ago and it is still in good shape ; It's a tri fold Ramp with Safety chain's keep ramp secure while loading And is made of Rugged 14 Gauge extruded aluminum construction . And the dimensions are : Folded Dimension's 14 -7/8" W x 69" L Open Dimension's: 45" W x 69" L 1500 lb load capacity . Weight: 30 lbs. And here's another Site you can get the from ! www.northerntools.com and just scroll down on the left till you see ramps , their best Tri - Fold Ramp is the Highland LARGE Tri - Fold Sport Ramp open Dimensions: 54inch Wide x 77" Long Rugged Aluminum Ramp Holds 1500 lbs distributed weight Folds To To Store between ATV wheels in truck ! Aluminum wall thickness : .070 Construcded of Aluminim Tubing ! Folded Measurements: 18" High x 77" Long x 8: Deep ! The one i hve now is only 45" Wide it's the one i bought from Harbor Freight Tool's when it was on sale for $79.99 I've used used it everytime i hauled my Honda 350 foreman and my Suzuki ATV's , but i sold the Honda and the Suzuki and bought a 2006 Arctic Cat 400 FIS Auto 4x4's ; i've used the old ramp about 6 or 7 time's but it can get a little hairy loading an atv with a 50" wheel Base using a 45" Wide Loading ramp ; that leave 's a little ove 2 and a half inch to much width overlap of wheel Base that stick's out past the Ramp Width ! I'm not afraid to load it in the daytime , but it'a a little scary unloading in the dark ; so choose a ramp's wide enough for your quad ! I need the 54 inch wide ramp for my Cat !

 

sewerrat if you have a trailer and it has rail's on the front and side's of the trailer , you could take it to any good shop that does welding ; and have them build you one of those air gate's ! The gate's are constructed from metal tubing with a layer of crossmesh steel welded to the gate ,then they weld 3 hinge's to the rear of trailer and 3 to the rear of the gate , then they use a long peice of round metal rod that slide's through the hinge's and either drill's hole's at each end of the rod to get a big cotter pin in the taped mhole's ; or they some just tak weld the 2 outer end
s of the rod with a stickwelder just enough to keep the metal rod from vibratting out the hinge's that hold the gate on ! Then they weld 2 hinge's to each siide of the top of the trailer rail's ! and with the gate raised they mark the gate where it will mesh with the top of each side of the trailer's top rail , Then weld 2 hinge's to the marked side of the gate then you can use hitch Pin's 'for the corner's to keep the gate up with the hitch pin's ! When loading up just pull the pin's so you can lower the gate , ride the ATV's on the trailer , strap them down then raise the gate and snap the hitch pin's in their hole's and you're raedy to go ! I have a home made trailer i built with my cousin's help that's look's and work's as good as any store bought trailer ; the total cost including giving my cousin $25.00 for help and my material's : Total cost was $175.00 and it has 15" white spoked wheel's and tire's ! I've seen these same trailer's about 5 mile's down the road from where i live a guy i know get's over $600.00 for Single trailer that hold's only one ATV , and $1200.00 to $1400.00 for the double Trailer's ! He does a good job and they're worth more than the one's they sell at Lowes or Home Depot , and most of the trailer's Lowes And Home Depot sell only have those small 12" to 13" wheel's and tire's and most of them you have to put the floor kit and your own side rail's on them and they sell them for almost as much as the guy i was typing about that live's close to me ! Good luck sewerrat on what ever you deside to do , and everyone on the forums have a good week and a good weekend as well ! .............................