3.5T turntable trailer

[PeteB]

 

Like that?

 

Touche'!

[GardenKit]

Excellent, that told me!

[tomg]

We use turntable trailers on our farm and think they are very good. However the biggest problem with them is that you get no weight transfer to the towing vehicle so you are relying solely on the vehicle weight for traction. That would probably be ok on nice flat dry roads but I wouldn't want to set off up or down a wet steep hill with one on a land rover. I have had a frightening experience with one coming to a junction at the bottom of a hill fully loaded, tried to stop the tractor which locked all wheels but the trailer just pushed the tractor out into the path of an oncoming bus! Fortunately it was a wide road so I jack knifed the tractor round and the bus swerved past. All our trailer brakes are checked regularly now!

Yeah definitely wouldn't want one behind my land rover.

[tncountryservices]

I have used one behind a discovery, it was fitted with electric brakes which worked a treat

[woody3]

Excellent, that told me!

 

i have a pull out front tow bar on the 7.5 tonner

 

noticed a few cars towing caravans with a front hitch

[aspenarb]

front hitch/pin sorts that out

 

+1

I hate the things , they never go where you want them too.

 

Bob

[Peasgood]

+1

I hate the things , they never go where you want them too.

 

Bob

I think that's the reason they are not popular in this country.

Most people can't reverse them. Just as a lot of folk can't reverse a two wheel trailer and seemingly 99% of women just can't reverse.

[skyhuck]

 

Like that?

 

Is that legal??

[mowingjamie]

lovin that focus front hitch, seen it all now!

 

bit of nifty turn table trailer reversing here...

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhoNckcbvU0]Drehschemelanhänger Wendemanöver. Turntable-Trailer turn. - YouTube[/ame]

[onyx landscaping/fencing]

seemingly 99% of women just can't reverse.

 

I know quite a few men that are just as bad at reversing! my dad being one of them