HF Foldable Trailer?

[sscherin]

Just off the top of my head, looking at the picture, it appears that you may have the weight too far forward. Ordinarily, the tongue should carry about 10% of the cargo weight. FWIW.
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I agree the wheel chock should be further back but at the time I mounted it I was more interested in the strength of the ply near the edges where it was bolted down vs mounting it in the center of a rather flexible sheet of plywood..

My Bike had broken down so we bought the trailer off CL, stopped at HF for the wheel chock, mounted it in the grocery store parking lot, rolled the bike on and headed home..

Even with the GS1000 on the Suburban hardly notices it's there..

[chopnhack]

C-man, what are you saying regarding weight placement on the trailer, should the bike have been mounted roughly 1/2 over the rear axle? or??

[LCHIEN]

there's two independent requirements you want to try and meet.
1. balance the load so the Center of gravity is just forward of the axle so that there's about 90% of the weight on the axle and wheels and 10% on the tongue. Do this for handling concerns.
2. While doing 1, the load must not exceed the capacity of the receiver and of the vehicle in tongue-weight, both. The receiver can break and the rear suspension can break or the vehicle not handl well.

actually there's a third requirement probably and that's not to exceed the tow weight of the vehicle and receiver. That's so as not to overload the pull strength of the receiver and of the car's drive train and brakes.

[Mr__Bill]

While we are talking about uncovered trailers some of you may be interested in this. It's a bag that several 4 x 8's can fit in to.

Kerry All Pouch

and a video too.



Bill

[Kristofor]

A few folks mentioned that these trailers didn't have VIN tags. While some may not, I thought I remembered having one on mine. I went out and took a quick look and I do in fact have one on mine. It also came with a certificate with the same info that I brought in to the license center for the MN lifetime trailer sticker.

Here's a rather out of focus pic (you'll have to trust me that precarious balancing was involved)

[Black wallnut]

The description says the trailer comes with 4.80" x 12" tires. Did it come with something different when you bought yours? What was the reason for changing the tires?

All this talk about trailers has me thinking I should get one - much easier to load equipment onto a trailer than lift it into the bed of the truck.

Yes, the one I bought had 8" or so tires. Since I anticipated driving lots of freeway miles and since the hubs warmed up I went for larger tires. Larger tires slow the bearings down a whole bunch which means less heat and longer bearing life with the added benefit of increased ground clearance.