Need a trailer - Wher to buy one

Cmar-Ireland

Hi All,

I want to pick up a reasonably priced trailer. Have seen some on autotrader, 8x4 double axels for about €1000.
Anyone know of any for sale or where I can get one reasonably priced?

Thanks

Wishbone Ash

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

8x4 double axels

Just bear in mind that many dumps/landfills do not permit double axle trailers.

Cmar-Ireland

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Just bear in mind that many dumps/landfills do not permit double axle trailers.

I just want it for general use. Collecting stuff, lawn mower, blocks, sand etc. I wont be using it for dump runs.

BnA

Local papers are often a good place to pick up something like this.

Also, it would be well worth your while picking up the Farmers Journal some week.

Actually, here are the classified's online...(Although the search doesn't seem to work that well)

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/classifieds/


This place seems close enough to you

045 481037/ 087 6699637
The Trailer Clinic,
Kilcullen, Co. Kildare


Also try the buy and sell. Once you've waded through all the horse boxes, bale trailers etc etc.... you might find something

http://www.buyandsell.ie/browse.php?s=25&quicksearch=trailer&textopt=all&ofr_wan=ofr_wan&priv_trade=priv_trade&o=40

How about this (from the buy and sell) Again, not too far away from you. Seems to be exactly what you are looking for.

Double Axle Trailer. Leinster Laois €1150.00
All steel, 8 x 4.3, full set removeable mesh sides, checkered floor, all extras, €1150 call after 6pm. 0578644021

Anan1

And be very careful not to buy one that's been stolen.

Run_to_da_hills

I would go for a good second hand branded model like an Ifor Willians or Sealy rather than a fabricated new one. I have seen travellers dealing in them from the side of the road. If buying from these guys you would want to check out their source and the quality of the welds and metals used. In Ireland as yet there is absolutly no standards with trailors so anyone with a welding plant and a few lengths of andle iron can lump one together. In Australia every trailor must have an identity tag and must be tested.

Cmar-Ireland

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I would go for a good second hand branded model like an Ifor Willians or Sealy rather than a fabricated new one. I have seen travellers dealing in them from the side of the road. If buying from these guys you would want to check out their source and the quality of the welds and metals used. In Ireland as yet there is absolutly no standards with trailors so anyone with a welding plant and a few lengths of andle iron can lump one together. In Australia every trailor must have an identity tag and must be tested.

I have thought about welding one up myself. But it's not like doing a gate or similar. There is a lot more danger with a trailer...

Run_to_da_hills

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

I have thought about welding one up myself. But it's not like doing a gate or similar. There is a lot more danger with a trailer...

Some back street trailor manufacturers may as well be welding up gates, thats why I would be extra cautious. Im very surprised there is no registration or trailor standards in this country. It is not uncommon to see a trailors with balled tyres and abandoned with wheels missing on the side of the road. If you think of getting a Westwood or IFor Williams its worth getting them data tagged and keeping it chained up in the driveway as they have a habbit of getting nicked

Cmar-Ireland

These are available on autotrader for approx €850. Seems good to me.

DonJose

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

These are available on autotrader for approx €850. Seems good to me.

"Tyrone Trailers Centre", don't forget to add VRT [/joke]

Cmar-Ireland

DonJose wrote: »

"Tyrone Trailers Centre", don't forget to add VRT [/joke]

Seriously though, they seem to be very good value. I haven't seen them in the metal, but from the pictures they look very solid.

prospect

I got mine (both of them, one got nicked) from BLT in Newcastle Co.Dublin.

I't was about €1200, twin axle, brakes, removable high sides & the tailgate is re-inforced so it acts as a ramp for driving the mower onto the trailer.

I never had a problem with them, although they do need to be painted every 2 or 3 years. Also, make sure to get one with a jockey wheel, it is no fun lifting them onto the cars hitch when there is weight in them.

Looking at your Tyrone Trailers Link, mine is very similar, except:
Mine has a solid panel at the front, that goes up to the top bar, this prevents any of your load sliding forward and hitting your car.
It has removable sides.
The tailgate is the same height as the front, but is a mesh, and reinforced.
Mine does not haver a tie bar all round, instead it has several welded tie points near the base of the outside bodywork.

Wishbone Ash

Give TR Trailers a bell for a price - 01 8354339. He's off the N2 near Garristown/Ashbourne and has been in the business for years.

(TR = Terry Russell I think?).

niceirishfella

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Give TR Trailers a bell for a price - 01 8354339. He's off the N2 near Garristown/Ashbourne and has been in the business for years.

(TR = Terry Russell I think?).

Also, try SMS trailers in Kilkenny.........massive range and top qulaity stuff and always open to a deal in my experience.

peasant

Why is it that half of these big trailers are unbraked?

Surely, you couldn't tow a 1 to 1.5 ton trailer unbraked ...

(up to 750 kg / half the GVW is legal, I think ...above that it has to be braked)

bitemybanger

Saw a couple over in Adverts.ie

mickdw

go for ifor williams or similar. all those other small manufacturer trailers rot so fast. and you will find secondhand axles etc with seized brakes on many of them

Del2005

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Hi All,

I want to pick up a reasonably priced trailer. Have seen some on autotrader, 8x4 double axels for about €1000.
Anyone know of any for sale or where I can get one reasonably priced?

Thanks

I hope you are licenced to tow trailers. Towing something that big would need a big car/4x4 and may push you over the 3.5t limit for B licences when loaded. And if you go intot he C1 then you can only tow 750kg.

niceirishfella

mickdw wrote: »

go for ifor williams or similar. all those other small manufacturer trailers rot so fast. and you will find secondhand axles etc with seized brakes on many of them

the OP will be hard pressed to find a decent ifor williams for a 1k budget..........maybe one thats hot...or has been hammered.

Wishbone Ash

Del2005 wrote: »

Towing something that big would need a big car/4x4 and may push you over the 3.5t limit for B licences when loaded. And if you go intot he C1 then you can only tow 750kg.

A category C1 wouldn't be the next appropriate licence in this situation. It would be a category EB licence. This would give the OP the opportunity to go to 4,250 GVW (?)

A C1 would be very limiting as the trailer would still have to have a GVW of less that 750kgs even though the overall GVW combination may be up to 7,500kgs.

If the OP currently has just a category B licence and wishes to drive on public roads, he would be required to apply for an EB learner permit, be accompanied by a person with a full EB licence and who has held that licence for at least two years, and wait 6 months before taking the EB test.

Moral of the story - get a smaller trailer.

Elaine08

have u tried donedeal.ie. they are pretty good

Bitten & Hisses

What about this crowd:
http://www.westwoodtrailers.com/Home/Home_Page/index.html

You'd get a basic single axle Ifor Williams new for not much more than €1000

almostretired

anyone any idea where to buy a trailer for a ride on lawnmower

dgt

almostretired wrote: »

anyone any idea where to buy a trailer for a ride on lawnmower

We dealt with this guy before would highly recommend him

Linky