Davis on Large Animal Rescues. This had to do with things like
extracting horses who had fallen down a cliff, or who were inside an
overturned trailer, etc.
One of the things I remembered from that class was to check the
distance from the front axle of your truck to the rear axle, and then
from the rear truck axle to the trailer axle. You do not want to have
a shorter distance between the two truck axles than you do from the
truck's rear axle to the trailer's. Having said that I know that some
of those huge 40 ft trailers are going to have a distance longer than
the distance between the towing vehicle's front and rear axles. What
the presenters were stressing was to not have a jeep pulling a 20 ft
trailer type of thing.
So if your trailer is hitched to your towing vehicle, take a look at
the distances mentioned above and see how your rig or the rig you plan
on getting compares.
Apparently when you have a short distance axle towing vehicle hauling
a long trailer, the trailer is "under powered" by the towing vehicle
and can easily fishtail and flip or cause an accident with the whole
rig.
K. Graves
On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:12 PM, L wrote:
>
>
> --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "marsha1970"
> <marsha1147@...> wrote:
> >
> What do you consider a short bed truck? Ours is 6 and 1/2 feet. We
> pull a 16 foot gooseneck truck with a half ton 2000 extended cab
> chevy. The goose is not tapered because I have a mattress in there
> for camping. Can I pop the back window of my truck out. Sure but I
> am careful and never have to watch the back window unless I am
> making a really tight turn.
>
> We put either saddles or cart or wagonette in the front. Close the
> gate and load the haflingers in the back. It is nice because you can
> pack the front early and load the horses and be off. It gets
> interesting when we load the cart and saddles in the front and put 3
> haflingers in the back. That we only do when driving locally. You
> need to squeeze past 3 haflinger butts out the back of the trailer.
> Lori in WI
>
> > I tow a gooseneck trailer with a short bed truck. The trailer is a
> Jamco stock trailer, 16" with a tapered nose and the truck is a GMC
> Sierra 2500HD extended cab short bed. No problems due to the design
> of the nose of the trailer. I wouldn't have bought a trailer with a
> square nose design as that would have hit the cab in sharp turns.
> > I wouldn't even concider a bumper pull trailer, only goosenecks
> for me. Much easier to hitch, back and turn around.
> >
> > Marsha in VT
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "bonnybrae" <wpedigo@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > We were advised that we wouldn't be able to make sharp turns or
> doing so could damage our cab.
> > >
> > > A GN needs *so* much room when turning so the truck cab clear
> the outer edges of the GN.
> > >
> > > I believed it when I was told. I once rode with a friend towing
> a GN with her full size bed truck, but she had a silver tool box up
> by the cab that stuck up a few inches. She did indeed clip her
> toolbox with the GN.
> > >
> > > We just decided to not take the chance. I would be interested to
> hear from others who tow a GN with a short bed truck. Not sure if
> anyone does though.
> > >
> > > Wendy
> > > NC
> > >
> >
>
>
>
Kathy Graves
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