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Posted by bill on December 20, 2006, 12:33 pm
Mike,
What you are looking for is a double axle trailer with a braking
system. Kind of like what a car dealer uses to haul a single car. Your
Jeep may be rated for 5000 pounds , but you would be taking chances if
you pulled more than 4000 including the weight of the trailer. Pulling
it is not the problem. Stopping is the problem.
I had a good friend that foolishly tried to pull a horse trailer loaded
with wood with a half ton truck. As he was going down a not so big hill
the trailer tried to push his truck and wound up jack-knifing. He said
he aged 10 years in less than 30 seconds. He survived, and to follow up
his bad judgement, had to unload the trailer and have all of us help
him haul his load.
Look at what landscapers use to haul a trailer with a yard of sand,
rock or dirt. A 3/4 ton truck (weighs 6,000) or better.
Best deal, get a light trailer and when you need a yard of dirt have it
delivered.
Bill in New Mexico
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Posted by Doug Miller on December 20, 2006, 12:40 pm
>I had a good friend that foolishly tried to pull a horse trailer loaded
>with wood with a half ton truck. As he was going down a not so big hill
>the trailer tried to push his truck and wound up jack-knifing. He said
>he aged 10 years in less than 30 seconds. He survived, and to follow up
>his bad judgement, had to unload the trailer and have all of us help
>him haul his load.
Did the trailer have brakes?? SWMBO and I used to have horses, and we
routinely pulled a two-horse trailer (2700# empty, around 4500-4800# with the
horses, tack, and a couple bales of hay) with a half-ton truck. Up hills, down
hills, wherever we needed to -- and never had a problem like that. Of course,
our trailer had electric brakes, too, and the unit was calibrated to apply the
trailer brakes *before* the brake pedal got down far enough to put any
pressure on the truck's hydraulics. It also had a control which permitted the
driver to apply the trailer's brakes alone, independent of the truck's brakes.
Our biggest problem was going *up* hills. Even a 360ci V8 has to work a bit to
pull that much weight up a steep hill.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Posted by dpb on December 19, 2006, 11:34 am
Mike wrote:
> Hi everybody, I'm considering buying a utility trailer to haul stuff
> in. I'd like to be able to go to the landscaping supply place and get a
> yard of top soil, or mulch, or whatever. What I don't know is how much
> these things typically weigh, so I can see how much of a trailer I need
> to buy.
>
> FYI, I just sold my pickup truck in favor of a Jeep, so I'm looking for
> an alternative to the bed of the truck.
>
Google is your friend... :)
http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_materials.htm
For ease, 0.8 * kg/m^3 --> T/-cu-yd, approx, or 1.8 * kg/m^3 -->
lb/cu-yd
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