indispension plant trailer question

[predator]

i lent my mate my trailer to pick aconcreat garage up and he said when loaded he could,nt back it up hill as the brakes where coming on as i,ve never had this problem yet what would could be the cause before i end up with the trailer brakes in bits or am i wissing somthing as i,ved owned this trailer for 5 years and never had a problem ???

[nepia]

Did he not just need to bump the trailer to release the brakes that automatically apply when the drawbar piston is compressed? That's what happens with my Indespension trailer and the chipper I tow; I'm pretty sure that's what's meant to happen.

[Mark James]

The same happens with my ifor if it's over loaded, just give it a bump and it releases.

[Mortimer Firewood]

With all that weight on he was just struggling to release the brakes happens to me when delivering bigger loads of logs and the drive is steep . Look at it this way you know your brakes work.

[gensetsteve]

Buy an ifor williams they got a catch on the front you engage even on auto reverse brand new trailers. When you pull forward the catch pops back up. Maybe you could fit a different hitch. Never unhitch you trailer parked on a hill without chocking the wheels as the handbrakes are very poor in reverse.

[predator]

i lent my mate my trailer to pick aconcreat garage up and he said when loaded he could,nt back it up hill as the brakes where coming on as i,ve never had this problem yet what would could be the cause before i end up with the trailer brakes in bits or am i wissing somthing as i,ved owned this trailer for 5 years and never had a problem ???

 

post looks well sorry i did,nt have my glass on at the time on lappy in bed etc lol thanks men it was just i had,nt any probbs in past myself reversing it up hill loaded

[Treewolf]

I have had a similar problem reversing an auto-reverse trailer up a slippery slope - the problem was that there was insufficient traction for the trailer wheels to activate the auto-reverse mechanism, so the brakes simply came on.

 

For the autoreverse feature to work, the wheels have to rotate backwards, engage the brakes hard enough to move the shoes to activate the release cam. If there is insuffient traction for this to happen, the brakes will stay on.

 

In many ways the old style, non-auto reverse, mechanism was far better for off-road trailers. Less convenient everywhere else, though!

[mendiplogs]

Buy an ifor williams they got a catch on the front you engage even on auto reverse brand new trailers. When you pull forward the catch pops back up. Maybe you could fit a different hitch. Never unhitch you trailer parked on a hill without chocking the wheels as the handbrakes are very poor in reverse.

 

HI steve your right there mate on my old ifor we had a catch just the job jon