Hope I'm posting up in the right place for this.ok Looking to buy a utility trailer to tow a SXS (Can Am Commander 1000) on and will use same trailer to tow my Harley on.Can Am weighs 1300# Harley weighs 750# ...The trailer needs to be minimum 6X12 most likely 6.5X12 So most of the single axle Aluminum trailers I've looked at online weigh in about 600# - 760# with a GWR of 2990# The medal ones have a wooden floor with either 18inch rails or 2 ft solid sides and the usual 4 ft fold up ramp,,, weighs in from 1020# to 1290# for the solid sided ones with same 2990# GWR .Can you really tell any difference in the weight of the two pulling it down the road ? Weight difference can be 400# to 600# from the Aluminum one to the solid sided Metal one.The Aluminum one has NO side railing well 5.5 inch ... BUT the price difference is $1500 more for the Aluminum vs the Metal with just railing sides or $750 difference with the Metal one having solid sides.Trying to figure out/justify is the weight difference worth the extra money and or would the weight difference actually make a big difference in towing.Been looking on CL at used trailers and they want pretty close same price as new ones.I've kinda narrowed it down to these three types.http://thetrailerspecialists.com/landscaping-trailers/?listing_id=28168http://thetrailerspecialists.com/utility-trailers/?listing_id=28687 http://thetrailerspecialists.com/aluminum-trailers/?listing_id=20809The third one is pretty slick as the rear ramp slides out from the rear BUT it is also the most expensive one too !It also already has a storage box, so if I got one of the others I'd still have to buy a storage box...Dang didn't realize I was going to be so winded asking what you thought on if you can really tell the weight difference towing ?

I'm going to move this thread Dinghy Towing to Toy Haulers as I think the posters there can better help you.

can't help with your specific questions but I saw a trailer I would love to have. a Triton aluminum IIRC that had tall ramp type sides so you could just drive on from one side and exit the other. no ramp, etc. on the rear but I assume you could get something optionally.bumpy

It depends on what you are towing with? In my diesel truck I probably wouldn't notice it much but in my any of my work trucks with a small v8 I know I would feel it back there. Looking at the trailers you listed, all will work. The trailer with the higher sides might be near max payload if you load it with the sxs and other stuff like coolers and such. If you don't need sides you might find other trailers out there that weighs less if the total weight is a concern.

I do landscaping and lawn maintenance. So I have had countless trailers such as the steel model with the angle iron sides, only much longer. One thing that you could do to help a lot with towing if you decide to go with that type: Use ramps or something similar to drive the SXS or bike down instead of the gate with expanded metal. Believe it or not, that gate causes quite a bit of wind drag on the highway. Its not so much the weight you'd be losing. But if you can reduce that wind drag at highway speeds, it will feel much more like the aluminum model.If I couldn't swing the price of the aluminum trailer, that's what I'd do if I were using it for your purpose.

Thanks fore moving it to a better place Mods !I was thinking on the same lines as well as that 4 ft ramp even tho its expanded metal would still be a wind sail to a point! I've seen some trailers where the ramp folds , but I think that would just be a pain by yourself?I will be pulling it with both our Toyota FJ and 25 ft MH with the small 6.0 V8...

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OFDPOS
Explorer
Jan 22, 2016
Bumpyroad wrote:
can't help with your specific questions but I saw a trailer I would love to have. a Triton aluminum IIRC that had tall ramp type sides so you could just drive on from one side and exit the other. no ramp, etc. on the rear but I assume you could get something optionally.
bumpy

I see on the net a lot of trailers both Aluminum and Metal look nice and decent price only to click on the site and its back East somewhere.
Went and looked at a local trailer place and he had a 2013 Triton used trailer there priced at $2,375.00 I go home look it up and of coarse they are made back East BUT the price for it brand new $2395.00 !

Some of the trailers that I do find on CL and go look at are either priced just a few hundred under a brand new one and/or are trashed, the frames are tweaked, flooring needs replaced... Looks like they let their 5 year old loose with a rattle can painting it.. lol
OFDPOS
Explorer
Jan 22, 2016
Thanks fore moving it to a better place Mods !

I was thinking on the same lines as well as that 4 ft ramp even tho its expanded metal would still be a wind sail to a point!
I've seen some trailers where the ramp folds , but I think that would just be a pain by yourself?

I will be pulling it with both our Toyota FJ and 25 ft MH with the small 6.0 V8...
lawnspecialties
Explorer
Jan 22, 2016
I do landscaping and lawn maintenance. So I have had countless trailers such as the steel model with the angle iron sides, only much longer.

One thing that you could do to help a lot with towing if you decide to go with that type: Use ramps or something similar to drive the SXS or bike down instead of the gate with expanded metal.

Believe it or not, that gate causes quite a bit of wind drag on the highway. Its not so much the weight you'd be losing. But if you can reduce that wind drag at highway speeds, it will feel much more like the aluminum model.

If I couldn't swing the price of the aluminum trailer, that's what I'd do if I were using it for your purpose.
qchunter
Explorer
Jan 22, 2016
It depends on what you are towing with? In my diesel truck I probably wouldn't notice it much but in my any of my work trucks with a small v8 I know I would feel it back there.

Looking at the trailers you listed, all will work. The trailer with the higher sides might be near max payload if you load it with the sxs and other stuff like coolers and such. If you don't need sides you might find other trailers out there that weighs less if the total weight is a concern.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Jan 22, 2016
can't help with your specific questions but I saw a trailer I would love to have. a Triton aluminum IIRC that had tall ramp type sides so you could just drive on from one side and exit the other. no ramp, etc. on the rear but I assume you could get something optionally.
bumpy
Y-Guy
Moderator
Jan 22, 2016
I'm going to move this thread Dinghy Towing to Toy Haulers as I think the posters there can better help you.

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