hay wagon

Or is it because the wheels are at the back end of most commercial trailers, where the wheels on our TTs are closer to mid-frame?

IMO you answered your own question. That long tail hanging out behind the axles can create a big wag some times.

I suppose it has - we've added a gooseneck hitch to the front end of the log trailers and connected it to the ball on the flatbed.

CavemanCharlie wrote:

wanderingbob wrote:
It is easy to back a wagon , the hard part is making it go where ya want it to go . But farmers do it all the time !
Here in north Fl./south Georgia it is common to see 3 to five peanut wagons hooked together going down US 90 or US 84 with a twelve to fifteen year old kid driving along dipping snuff !

Oh God ! Would you ever get busted for that around here.

Busted for the dip? We had one of those little trailers but we had a pintle on the front so we could back up easier.

wanderingbob wrote:
It is easy to back a wagon , the hard part is making it go where ya want it to go . But farmers do it all the time !
Here in north Fl./south Georgia it is common to see 3 to five peanut wagons hooked together going down US 90 or US 84 with a twelve to fifteen year old kid driving along dipping snuff !

Oh God ! Would you ever get busted for that around here.

It is easy to back a wagon , the hard part is making it go where ya want it to go . But farmers do it all the time !
Here in north Fl./south Georgia it is common to see 3 to five peanut wagons hooked together going down US 90 or US 84 with a twelve to fifteen year old kid driving along dipping snuff !

Dollies are nothing new and about half the trucking companies in the us use them. Pulled doubles for a while, a wild ride in windy, rainy or snowy conditions. You can grab the tongue of a dollie and wheel it around by hand. Just looks heavy.

colliehauler wrote:
Would make watching people try to back into a tight campground space very fun to watch.

It is already fun to watch!

kmwaterboy wrote:
I see we have a few farm boys on here.As for any problems,the truckers pulling the double trailers around here don't seem to have any sway or others problems.They go like mad pulling those things.
Just thinking it would eliminate much of the weight on the truck and give you more payload so you pull a larger,heavier trailer.

I was thinking about this last week when I came up next to an 18-wheeler that was constantly swaying back and forth a couple feet. What prevents the trailers from experiencing sway like we do with our TTs? Is it because of the weight in the trailer? Or is it because the wheels are at the back end of most commercial trailers, where the wheels on our TTs are closer to mid-frame?

I can back a hay wagon up with a pickup. But, it ain't easy and sometimes it takes me a few tries. Works best if you remove the end gate on the pickup so you can see what the hitch on the wagon is doing.

My trick for doing that with a tractor was to focus my attention on where I wanted the hitch point to go, not how I planned on moving the steering wheel. Trying to think the process out from the tractor's front wheels back was frustrating at best.

It would definitely raise the campground entertainment level.