New trailer

[tommer9]

ifor williams tt105g with electric tip and greedy sides- it will outlast aby other trailer imho- if it takes the abuse i give it....sorry- cant comment on atlas!!

[Johny Walker]

i'm toying with the idea of selling my ldv and going the trailer route. I'd like to try out an Atlas trailer(amongst other reasons to support one of my sponsors) and am interested if anyone has any experience with them?

 

why not see if they will let you have 1, on demo for a week

[tommer9]

best idea yet!

[Theocus]

Demo for a week, what a great idea, good for your decision making and great for there advertising and credentials!!!!!

I wait with baited breath!

[treedave]

I've used a mates Atlas trailer (Woodmad on here). Towed nicely but felt heavy empty - but I'm used to a 1/2 ton Ifor. Towed well with a full load (possibly overloaded as we were filling it with wet Oak 2 m lengths with a crane) and still tipped nice and easy with the detachable hand held. I can move it in the yard reasonably easily but it is better with 2 if you have to do more than forward and back by hand - not unusual for double axle trailers though. He has the extra ladder rack on the front and a smooth ally base. Not sure if he got the ramps.

He tends to put it behind a landcruiser fills it with slab wood or firewood and easily drags it out of deep mud in the wood (not sure if that's the car though!).

He hasn't broke it (had it over a year) which is something as he can break most things.

I know that he looked for a good while before he got it and he had to get it brought up on the back of a wagon (says something as the Ifor dealer is 30 mins away).

Hope it helps:001_smile:

[Steve Bullman]

thanks mate, thats what i was after. perhaps he'll pipe up himself too

[Treewarrior]

I have an Indespension 8x5 electric tipper and it's brilliant. Had an Ifor before but it was very bouncy unladen. Got to have electric tip because hand pumping is unbearable. 8x5 is obviously shorter than the 10x5 Atlas you're looking at but then it makes it more obedient to tow and can get into smaller places, weighs less when moving by hand etc. I paid £3k for mine brand new last Sept inc ladder rack - Indespension are doing bonkers discounts at the mo. Comes with excellent steel ramps and all the trimmings. Only gripe is GW of 2600kg whereas 10x5 is 3500kg I think. Greedy boarded up it works lovely. I have a Jo Beau M500 which I can almost leave at the back on small jobs, otherwise the tracked jensen fits in spot on.

Good old Jo Beau's they're great!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

thanks for all your replies...i am specifically looking for feedback on the atlas though, anyone?

 

It has leaf springs = bouncy bouncy...

[madmatt]

It might have leaf springs but a 10x5 tipper will be knocking on for 800 kilo empty so it won't bounce that much. Also if a leaf spring breaks they can be replaced easily some of the indespension trailers you can't just replace the unit on one end you have to replace the whole axle.

[penfold]

Steve, just looked on their website and it says that you can now hire their trailers from portsmouth trailer hire; might be worth a punt?