Anyone use a swivel wheel platform?

I went with one of these

valhalla360 wrote:

laknox wrote:
Someone here made a really nice hydraulic lift for their bike. Beefed up the FW frame aft of the axles, IIRC, and installed it. Lots of pics and they've been posted several times. One pic shows it strapped to his front end loader to test, prior to paint and install.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, he was also looking to put several hundred pounds of lead shot in the nose because it was tail heavy and swaying.

4x4ord is who you are thinking of.

He did a BEAUTIFUL job on his Custom Lift!!!!!!!

4x post a pic for us.

laknox wrote:
Someone here made a really nice hydraulic lift for their bike. Beefed up the FW frame aft of the axles, IIRC, and installed it. Lots of pics and they've been posted several times. One pic shows it strapped to his front end loader to test, prior to paint and install.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, he was also looking to put several hundred pounds of lead shot in the nose because it was tail heavy and swaying.

Someone here made a really nice hydraulic lift for their bike. Beefed up the FW frame aft of the axles, IIRC, and installed it. Lots of pics and they've been posted several times. One pic shows it strapped to his front end loader to test, prior to paint and install.

As others have said, whether a swivel-wheel platform is a trailer or not, and whether states allow double-towing, is a =huge= quagmire.

Hell, there were pics on here several years ago, of a guy who was towing a crazy setup. IIRC, he was towing a Samurai behind his FW and had a swivel-wheel attached to the Samurai for his quad!

Lyle

mountainkowboy wrote:
Still going round and round on what will be the "final" RV for retirement. We were going to go with another Moho, but have decided to keep the dually and TC and just add another, either a 5er or TT, I'm leaning to a 5er for the better towing. If we go with a 5er I need some way to bring the Harley along.

I've looked at the Idaho tote and the swivel wheels platforms.

Anyone have one? How does it perform?

What about a 5'er toyhauler ?

mountainkowboy, I see you list SoCal and Oregon. I believe you will find Oregon is a state that you can't use an Idaho Tote type equipment.

I've used a SmartTrailer which is a swivelwheel type trailer to carry a couple bikes. I had one several years back and it does work very well. It does enable you to back up with no issues. Mine had two wheels, not the single wheel.

Whether it is viewed as a second trailer depends on the DMV of the state you're in and, more importantly, what the LEO thinks. It will add quite a bit of length and, of more concern, adds a lot of "swing" of the rear. Some states consider any add-on trailer to be a second trailer if it can be removed. No way to tell for sure.

FWIW I pulled our 5th wheel with swivlewheel through several eastern states that don't allow double tow, and was never stopped. Like Dirty Harry says "Do you feel lucky?". :)

Idaho Tote isn’t a trailer in the same way a booster axle on a concrete mixer or dump truck is not a trailer. It’s a platform with a self steering axle that auto adjusts its caster angle for reversing without needing to be raised. It does not trail by a single hitch point it attaches to the frame at two points.

Man! That's an expensive trailer.