I use an 18" 12K # tandem axle skid-loader trailer and it works fine. The 26" would only be OK if you haul a lot of light weight bulky items like appliances.
- How big of a trailer is TOO big?
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
I use an 18" 12K # tandem axle skid-loader trailer and it works fine. The 26" would only be OK if you haul a lot of light weight bulky items like appliances.
Rural scrapper
Yeah that's a great point. The bulky light items like frigs and washers eat up room stupid quick but are relatively light, so a bigger trailer is helpful. But if your hauling heavy small pieces, like cast iron rotors and drums, you can fit 3 ton pretty easy in a pickup bed.
Alvord iron and salvage
3rd generation scrapper and dam proud of it
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1st I wanna say you cant have too many trucks trailers wheelbarrows or buckets
2nd I wanna say if you only have one trailer it needs to be a 12 to 16 footer utility, a 16 you can haul smaller cars on and as stated above can handle anything within reason
3rd unless your neighborhood wont allow it or money wont allow, keep all the trailers you can, it will reduce handling material twice
my favorite specialty trailer now is a pickup truck bed trailer similar to taters, we throw prepared in there, ive got a gmc2500 im going to make another out of when time allows
anytime I go to a client to buy a car, if I see washers dryers or trailers I ask if they are for sale
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Rural scrapper
My wife would disagree with never having too many trailers !
Last edited by taterjuice; 07-07-2013 at 04:36 PM.
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the red one I bought for 500, the black one with the tire machine on it I think was 700 or 750 and it was brand new, the dodge wagon I paid a little extra for it but I think it was 200, ive got a green 16footer down at dads also
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tater I notice you said wife and not taterOriginally Posted by taterjuice
Rural scrapper
Indeed that's correct, Id have 50 of em if she'd let me ! Currently I have 4 and two pickup bed trailers that need finished.tater I notice you said wife and not tater
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Last one I bought wife could careless how much...It was which one are you getting rid of!
Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesaler
Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
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the good thing about trailers is this, if you get them right you will never lose money on a trailer, if you ever get in a small financial bind a $1000 boost from an extra trailer might just bail you out, and when the guy tells me the wife said it has to go that means I get to buy it cheap
Rural scrapper
I've heard that a time or two as well ! Seams like my wife and yours must be trading notes !
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On that Wives of Scrappers Forum, I'm thinkin.
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