car trailer thread

Air bag jacks are complete trash.

>>16192169
That much winch on a trailer is asinine. I have a 2500lb atv winch and I've pulled a junk f150 on flat tires like it was butter on hot toast.

Ditto the wireless remote and a lot of the other shit. It's a fucking trailer, if you want a shop on wheels you should have bought an enclosed.

>>16192181
This. First of all winch ratings refer to a 40° angle which you will never reach on a trailer, only in offroading. Also the ratings include a two- or trifold safety factor.

>>16192169
Seems good except for the air bag jack and the electric jack for the tongue.

That's just more stuff to go wrong. The owner of the company i work at has a trailer almost exactly like the one you're getting, the hydraulic tilt is great. Has the solar panel and everything.

The wireless remote isnt that bad of an idea either. That way you don't have to worry about a wire getting pinched somewhere

My friend's trailer has the same 12k winch on his...it's a Badlands brand, so it's harbor freight/Chinese. It pulls cars and trucks onto the trailer fine, but you can hear it working hard. I would say it's about the same strength as a quality 6k lb winch would be. Black friday price on it is $279, can't beat that. I normally wouldn't consider an electric jack, but figured since the trailer was gonna have a battery mounted to it anyways, why not?

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Here's my trailer, an '03 18ft steel deck BigTex. It's only a 7k, but it didn't seem to complain hauling a crew cab 4x4 diesel. If I could do it again I'd buy a 20ft 10k, but beggars can't be choosers.

I've towed countless cars on it and it's been great, tows straight as an arrow.

I added a HF tongue box, which I keep one of those shitty throw away hydrolic jacks in, all my tow straps, four cut up old inner tubes (use them to protect the straps if I'm going around an axle), some extra ratchet straps and a deep cycle marine battery.

I mounted a 2" receiver on the deck, and bought one of those receiver winch mounts. Quite frankly the receiver winch mount is crap, luckily they had an open box one which I got for half price.

This way I throw the winch on when I need it, and take it off when I don't.

I bought a 12k badlands, and it's probably complete overkill, but works fine. I paid $280 for it during one of those parking lot sales. It works fine and doesn't even make an effort pulling cars up.

Skip the electric tongue jack, they just break and become more annoying to use manual ones anyways. My friend went through 2 on his trailer before he just bought a generic manual A-frame style mount like I have on mine.

I bought one of those solar chargers thinking I'd use it to keep the battery fresh, but I park my trailer next to the barn so I just keep a battery tender on it.

I still want to add some lights on the deck, and change over all the lights to LED's.

Like that other anon said, it's an open deck trailer, not a shop, don't go crazy with it.

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>>16192169
I put this $40 boat winch on my trailer. It works amazingly well just a lot of cranking

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>>16192169
>add ons
None really, I need to add a winch but too cheap and not sure how/where I'd mount it

Pretty sure one of my equalizer bar bushings is shot too.