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Don Barnes 12-21-2010 08:28 AM
Looking for open trailer
 
Looking for new or used open aluminum tilt car trailer, 16 to 18 feet. Thx, db

redmt 12-21-2010 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Don Barnes (Post 1097844)
Looking for new or used open aluminum tilt car trailer, 16 to 18 feet. Thx, db
Just curious, why would you want aluminum for a flat deck trailer? Weight?
A conventional frame and wooden deck only weighs out around 1500 depending on configuration.

Don Barnes 12-21-2010 09:50 AM
Trailer
 
Sorry guys, I should have explained myself. I will be using this tilting trailer to recover street cars and race cars at a new race track I am working with. We are trying to avoid spending $25K on a roll back wrecker. I have used an open tilting trailer with a winch many times to scrap up the remains of cars that go off track. Thx, db #2723

Commissioner 12-31-2010 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by redmt (Post 1097849)
Just curious, why would you want aluminum for a flat deck trailer? Weight?
A conventional frame and wooden deck only weighs out around 1500 depending on configuration.
In the past 15 years, I have had a steel flat deck, (rusty and looked like crap due to outdoor storage), then a Pace enclosed, (convenient for safe travel storage, but very heavy to pull, 8-9mpg), and now a Featherlite Flatbed alum. trailer with a nose guard. The weight savings is tremendous (haul 66 Vette or 67 Shelby GT350), and the mileage on the interstates pulling with an '08 Tahoe is about 15mpg. I love the savings on the long distance pulls, plus it looks nicer and will hold up longer, hopefully. Featherlite makes a heckuva nice trailer and the nose piece protects the front of the cars. :3DSMILE:

redmt 12-31-2010 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Commissioner (Post 1099706)
In the past 15 years, I have had a steel flat deck, (rusty and looked like crap due to outdoor storage), then a Pace enclosed, (convenient for safe travel storage, but very heavy to pull, 8-9mpg), and now a Featherlite Flatbed alum. trailer with a nose guard. The weight savings is tremendous (haul 66 Vette or 67 Shelby GT350), and the mileage on the interstates pulling with an '08 Tahoe is about 15mpg. I love the savings on the long distance pulls, plus it looks nicer and will hold up longer, hopefully. Featherlite makes a heckuva nice trailer and the nose piece protects the front of the cars. :3DSMILE:
AHh! That would make sense. When I read his original post , I related it to MY USAGE. My trailer gets used quite frequently so it doesn't have a chance to rust and I don't pull it with an SUV. Mileage makes no difference with weight unless I'm up against a long pull or extended head winds. I get pretty much the same mileage loaded or empty. Miles per hour will greatly reduce my MPG expectations tho.:CRY:


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