Re: What's good for the Goose(neck)?

Posted by Don Wadge on November 21, 2003 at 06:38:08 from (205.200.74.201):

In Reply to: What's good for the Goose(neck)? posted by Indydirtfarmer on November 21, 2003 at 02:45:30:

Well, I guess the popular thing is to like goosenecks. But, unless you're going big and heavy I don't see the advantage and there are a few disadvantages. I have had two goosenecks previously and both were two axle, usual trailer thing to pull. For a couple of years when the kids were "real expensive" I didn't have a good truck so I sold my gooseneck trailer and found out I really needed one so I bought a light duty 20' bumper pull with tandem axles. This trailer actually pulled quite nicely but wasn't good for more than 7,000lbs. The trailer was one of those between the fender deals which is low but wouldn't handle wider tractors like R, 820,830 John Deere etc. So, I later rebuilt the trailer by putting another 4" frame member underneath the existing frame but spaced 3" between (total frame depth 11"). I then put 3 axles on the trailer. This raised my deck to within 4" of the top of my fenders and now I have a trailer that is reasonably low but can accomodate anything up to legal max width. Also, the new frame members are 4' longer than the old frame so I angled the deck down to the end of the new lower frame members and so my trailer deck is now 24' and the last 4' of the deck slope down about 7" so the rear of my trailer is still no higher than it was when it was the original between the frame style. As I said this was a nice trailer to pull before I did this but the addition of the 3rd axle just made this the smoothest, most stable, true pulling trailer I have ever experienced. Going down the highway you could actually forget you had it with you. Now one of the major advantages with the bumper hitch is that we can put the truck camper on the truck and go to the show or for the longer hauls my wife goes with me and it's a holiday.
I don't usually haul loads over about 12,000lbs. but I recently hauled an old Versatile 125 with fluid in the tires which would put it in the +16,000lb. class and the trailer performed the same as it has with the lighter loads. The reason a lot of bumper hitch trailers are bad to pull compared to a gooseneck is that they are short and many have the axles too close to the center of the trailer.

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