[Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer

[Mike Rambour]

  Open trailer with beaver tail, I personally have never seen a reason 
for a enclosed trailer. My trailers have to do dual duty...haul trash to 
the dump and haul my car around.

Its hard to haul trash to the dump in a enclosed trailer and in 30+ 
years of towing my car I have never any issues in motel parking lots 
including the few that were not in a neighborhood I would have chosen 
today with the advantage of the web to look at the neighborhood with.  I 
do admit a few times at races in the rain it would have been nice to 
have a enclosed trailer, but I only want to own one trailer and it has 
to be able to loaded up with construction debris to go to the dump or 
yard debris, etc.

  And I agree with the snap hooks but I still prefer the tire baskets 
now with one safety to the axle :)

     mike


On 9/9/2015 9:34 AM, David Hillman wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Mike Rambour wrote:
>> and when you get lucky and I mean really lucky, the car rolls off the 
>> trailer on the freeway offramp and comes to a stop with minimal 
>> damage...a few hundred yards earlier I would have been to 60, instead 
>> I was doing 10mph, like I said lucky.  This was with the chassis 
>> strapped down tight, but I guess not tight enough since a downward 
>> bounce allowed the hooks to come loose and the straps came off.
>
>    At risk of sounding like a paid shill, which I am not.  Use snap 
> hooks, which cannot disengage.  Relying on tension alone to maintain 
> attachment is risky, as you discovered.
>
> <http://www.lodimetals.com/2-standard-handle-ratchet-wsnap-hook>
>
>    Of course you can buy those from any number of vendors, but these 
> are the best quality I've seen, and frequently cheaper than 
> made-in-China crap.
>
>    Out of random curiosity, how did the door open?  Or are we talking 
> about a beavertailed open trailer here?
>
> -- 
>  David Hillman
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