Two holer hay trailer build

Done, except that I got stupid when figuring my safety chains and will have to do something different.
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Steve300xcw said:
Hitch, chains an hooks not being color matched make the whole thing look hack. :flipoff2:
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I did briefly consider painting the hooks.

The hitch, jack, rub rails, and strap winches being black provide contrast and help to break up the overall blueness of everything. I took an art history class once so as to meet a different sort of chick.
 
CarterKraft said:
Man that would really surprise me if that's the case.
Math is math though so you're probably dead on.
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That’s about a 1400 pound bale of peanut hay. Probably 75 pounds of tongue weight. Pretty easy to move it around by hand like that. So not 100 pounds of tongue weight with a 1500 pound bale on back like it sits.

Originally I was going to put the spare on the front and then changed my mind and put it just a little in front of the axle. I’m going to mount a trash box of some sort on the front for putting net wrap in and see what happens.
 
Damn this grossly overbuilt trailer broke it's own springs under the immense weight :flipoff2:
You shoulda used springs off a dump truck or something to match the whole "anything worth doing is worth overdoing" aspect of this project :flipoff2:
I'm just giving you **** man, because that's how it's gone in this thread from me :beer:
 
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There’s probably another 1500 miles where I got in and forgot to tell it what trailer was back there so it just tallied it up as default trailer or no active trailer.

I’m mostly done with it until October or so. I’m pretty happy with it. If I’m parked leaning to the passenger side or have the hay lopsided to that side it can be a little hard to release, but I always managed.

The leaf spring breaking is annoying. I almost wish I’d tried a torsion axle. In this single axle application a torsion might have been the way to go. It might not have made as much noise bouncing through the pasture at least. I’m not sure if I want to try another set of cheap trailer leafs or get the spring place in town to make me some with a double wrap military eye. Whatever that’s called.
 
I used some generic semi trailer dock bumpers as bump stops on my brown trailer. Even at full bump it rides like a cloud of ***ties. They’re probably about 3-4” tall though so you probably don’t have room for them unless you go spring over.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I used some generic semi trailer dock bumpers as bump stops on my brown trailer. Even at full bump it rides like a cloud of ***ties. They’re probably about 3-4” tall though so you probably don’t have room for them unless you go spring over.
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CarterKraft said:
They don't want the trailer springs to have a lot of travel, like 2" if I recall.
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That’s probably where I went wrong. I never measured how much travel it had, but I’m pretty sure it was more than 2”.
 
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