Old horse box.

One shot on kill

Hey guys after a long spell due to babies and mortgage etc. the woman is getting back into the hunting. I'm trying to get her a box. I suppose like most these days it has to be cheap enough. I don't mind value for money but would preferre some that needs work. I'm handy enough to take on the challenge so anything considered.

Just though someone might have an old box or a fixer upper around the yards or fields that they would like to pat with.

Pm me is possible guys. Thank you.

iverjohnston

keep watching donedeal and ebay. You see Rice boxes around the 600 mark from time to time. Ifor W's start about 1800

Sam Kade

I can tell you from experience that buying any trailer that needs fixing up is a waste of time and money. You would be way better off buying a trailer that is ready for work.

JohnBoy

I'd say buy something in need of reconditioning, or something well reconditioned, either that or buy as close to new as possible.

Only way you know what you've got.


old but clean is still old, the only way to know you can depend on such a machine is to go through it, in which case you may as well have started out with something cheap.


It's not the cheapest way into a trailer, but it's the cheapest way into a trailer you know you can depend on.

Enjoylife

Two factors come to mind.

First, you'll be putting a large hunter into it. Newer ones have an Aluminium floor. Older ones have timber, which rots.

Second, older boxes cost peanuts, but last peanuts. The brand new (505) ifors are very plastic and may not stand up to a hunter's weight, etc.

So, if I was buying, I'ld get a three year old ( ifor 504), double horsebox, clean, with an aluminium floor(peel back the mat), with great resale value.

Also, make sure that, whatever box you buy, has a front ramp, for safety.
You'll get great brownie points, for making her happy.

One shot on kill

Cheers for your advice guys it all seem like good advice and inunderstand where ye are all comeing from.

Have to say doe its the first time I ever heard that any ifor Williams trailer might not be up to the task. Ill be honest doe I see some 505's there going for 1500 in or around that anyway. Don't think I've ever seen a 504 for sale at all.

Enjoylife

Sorry, it is a 505 that I have outside, being a few years old, but of sturdier stuff, than the recent model 506, which seems to be of a lighter build. I have seen some people that changed the newer model 506, for the 505, once they got into more of the winter sport.

I may have ridden for a while, before helmets were mandatory, so apologies for the earlier mix-up in the model numbers.

When you put one or two 16h hunters into one, you'll feel the need for less speed, but more strength.

One shot on kill

I'm with you now. No hastle thanks for the info.