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advice on sheep trailer for small van

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  • #32
    kk.man
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    I was hoping to buy a second hand ifor Williams 8x5 with decks...I am looking at the older ones with the square tail lights...i recon these are a lighter trailer to tow ...would anyone agree or have experience of them?


  • #33
    Green farmer
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    Are single axel trailers less stable then a double ? Just say you'd to break or swerve all of a sudden, which would ye prefer to have behind you ? Asking because I've never towed with a single axel and have no experience of them.


  • #34
    sheepfarmer92
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Are single axel trailers less stable then a double ? Just say you'd to break or swerve all of a sudden, which would ye prefer to have behind you ? Asking because I've never towed with a single axel and have no experience of them.
    Have a little p6 ifor williams here, with canopy, brilliant little trailer, has been brought to blessington to bring home 5 rams from the texel sale and thats a good two hours away from here, so no problem on long journeys but a f**ker to reverse, if i were a pedigree man the p8 would look a better job and two axles would be safer on long journeys


  • #35
    Green farmer
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    Anyone have one of those aerlite 8x4.5 trailers, how many lambs would you fit in them ? They seem to be one of the lighter twin axel trailers out there, Looking for something easily pulled with the car ?


  • #36
    sea12
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Anyone have one of those aerlite 8x4.5 trailers, how many lambs would you fit in them ? They seem to be one of the lighter twin axel trailers out there, Looking for something easily pulled with the car ?

    Green I've the 8x5 twin axle info williams with decks. Got it last year. It's a great job. It's one of the older ones with the timber on the top of the ramp door. Find it very light, easy to load and pull. Might be worth it to save up the extra few € and get one that will do u for years.,


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  • #37
    kk.man
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Green farmer wrote: »
    Anyone have one of those aerlite 8x4.5 trailers, how many lambs would you fit in them ? They seem to be one of the lighter twin axel trailers out there, Looking for something easily pulled with the car ?

    Green I've the 8x5 twin axle info williams with decks. Got it last year. It's a great job. It's one of the older ones with the timber on the top of the ramp door. Find it very light, easy to load and pull. Might be worth it to save up the extra few € and get one that will do u for years.,
    Plus 1 on above ifor. Bought exact same one myself. The reason I didn't go for a newer version was because the new ones weights heavyer IMO.


  • #38
    orm0nd
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Green I've the 8x5 twin axle info williams with decks. Got it last year. It's a great job. It's one of the older ones with the timber on the top of the ramp door. Find it very light, easy to load and pull. Might be worth it to save up the extra few € and get one that will do u for years.,

    have 1 here although rarely use it now,

    used to bring 34 young tight wolled lambs, as the season went on would bring less

    pulled it full with the car a few times and biggest issue was wind drag, maybe not so much with a van or jeep,

    I see a lot of the imported boxes had nose cones


  • #39
    sea12
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    orm0nd wrote: »
    have 1 here although rarely use it now,

    used to bring 34 young tight wolled lambs, as the season went on would bring less

    pulled it full with the car a few times and biggest issue was wind drag, maybe not so much with a van or jeep,

    I see a lot of the imported boxes had nose cones

    Yea I found the wind drag noticeable the first couple of times compared to the 8x4.


  • #40
    Green farmer
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    orm0nd wrote: »

    pulled it full with the car a few times and biggest issue was wind drag, maybe not so much with a van or jeep,


    Anyone have one of these ?


  • #41
    wrangler
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Anyone have one of these ?

    It looks a great idea but you'd need a young lad with you to run in and get the sheep out. I used to hate decks for that reason.
    You'd see a few at shows, a 12 by 5 is a tidy outfit behind a car or SUV
    Looking again, those trailers don't seem as low as decks


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  • #42
    Green farmer
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    wrangler wrote: »
    It looks a great idea but you'd need a young lad with you to run in and get the sheep out. I used to hate decks for that reason.
    You'd see a few at shows, a 12 by 5 is a tidy outfit behind a car or SUV
    Looking again, those trailers don't seem as low as decks

    They’re a 4ft, so a foot or so higher then the decks. A 10ft one weighs 710kg and 12ft weights 790kg. In comparison a regular height 8ft ifor weights 725kg without decks and 850kg with decks. Reckon you’d easily fit 16 butchers lambs into the 10ft and a few more into the 12ft.


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