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Everything Trailer, Camper, or RV related / Trailer Towing adventure.
« on: January 24, 2015, 04:22:26 AM »
In September, I moved from Virginia, to Idaho. In order to do this, I bought a 34' enclosed bumper pull trailer from a company out of Georgia. 3x 5200lb axles, 15000lb GVW(what about tongue weight?!)
Here it is the day of delivery, sitting in my driveway.(well...mostly in the street)
If you can't tell, that was an early 2000's yukon denali that delivered it!!! :o
Here it is attached to a proper to rig.(empty!)
I ran E-track rails down both sides to secure cargo to.(no pics >:( )
Took off the 35" toyo MT's in favor of the 225/70/19.5's for the trip. Here are some loaded pics. (Needed bags!)
My dad flew out and we left at about 9pm Friday night. We took turns driving all the way to Sidney, NE before stopping to sleep late Saturday night(and only because we wanted to stop at Cabelas in the morning!)
Trailer+truck weighed 23,200 lbs. Truck was about 7600, so 15,600 on that trailer! (probably less on the axles considering the obvious tongue weight!) Even with the tongue weight, and no bags, it rode and handled great. No pushing, weaving, or anything. In Wyoming we found that 34' of flat trailer makes a pretty good sail!
Averaged about 10mpg untill Nebraska or so, when the speed limit went up to 80. Had no problems running 80 all the way through flat Nebraska, Hills in Wyoming, and into Idaho.( pretty sure mpg went down a little though!)
About 3 hours from home, in Green River Wyoming, we had a little mishap:
Luckily, we were off the freeway, just pulling into a gas station. The pics aren't very good, but there was not an ounce of penetration on the welds on that coupler. This was a Sunday afternoon, so everywhere was closed. Luckily for us, this random guy in a mobile service truck from Utah stopped and offered to help!
We jacked the trailer up and wrapped the safety chains around the receiver hitch to get it away from the fuel pumps to weld it.
We fully expected this guy to throw a quick bead on to keep the coupler on and we would just have to fix it right when we got back to my dads. But we were pleasantly surprised when Louis the Welder took his time, and about 2 dozen welding rods, and welded this coupler up like the Georgia factory should have.
We praised his work, and offered him a good chunk of cash for his time, but he declined! He started asking about goose hunting, how it was in Idaho and if we did any. My dad knows several avid goose hunters around, and promised to set him up with the goose hunt of his life!
Trailer had a 1 year warranty, but after spending weeks on the phone with the factory, and hearing them say that warranty work had to be performed by them at their factory, I won't be doing business with them again...
After we got home, I took it to get weighed again and this happened:
It's like that trailer was heavy or something....
Here it is the day of delivery, sitting in my driveway.(well...mostly in the street)
If you can't tell, that was an early 2000's yukon denali that delivered it!!! :o
Here it is attached to a proper to rig.(empty!)
I ran E-track rails down both sides to secure cargo to.(no pics >:( )
Took off the 35" toyo MT's in favor of the 225/70/19.5's for the trip. Here are some loaded pics. (Needed bags!)
My dad flew out and we left at about 9pm Friday night. We took turns driving all the way to Sidney, NE before stopping to sleep late Saturday night(and only because we wanted to stop at Cabelas in the morning!)
Trailer+truck weighed 23,200 lbs. Truck was about 7600, so 15,600 on that trailer! (probably less on the axles considering the obvious tongue weight!) Even with the tongue weight, and no bags, it rode and handled great. No pushing, weaving, or anything. In Wyoming we found that 34' of flat trailer makes a pretty good sail!
Averaged about 10mpg untill Nebraska or so, when the speed limit went up to 80. Had no problems running 80 all the way through flat Nebraska, Hills in Wyoming, and into Idaho.( pretty sure mpg went down a little though!)
About 3 hours from home, in Green River Wyoming, we had a little mishap:
Luckily, we were off the freeway, just pulling into a gas station. The pics aren't very good, but there was not an ounce of penetration on the welds on that coupler. This was a Sunday afternoon, so everywhere was closed. Luckily for us, this random guy in a mobile service truck from Utah stopped and offered to help!
We jacked the trailer up and wrapped the safety chains around the receiver hitch to get it away from the fuel pumps to weld it.
We fully expected this guy to throw a quick bead on to keep the coupler on and we would just have to fix it right when we got back to my dads. But we were pleasantly surprised when Louis the Welder took his time, and about 2 dozen welding rods, and welded this coupler up like the Georgia factory should have.
We praised his work, and offered him a good chunk of cash for his time, but he declined! He started asking about goose hunting, how it was in Idaho and if we did any. My dad knows several avid goose hunters around, and promised to set him up with the goose hunt of his life!
Trailer had a 1 year warranty, but after spending weeks on the phone with the factory, and hearing them say that warranty work had to be performed by them at their factory, I won't be doing business with them again...
After we got home, I took it to get weighed again and this happened:
It's like that trailer was heavy or something....