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Location: Virginia | I am looking at purchasing a new BP 14 ft. stock trailer. I have found several I like but they have a square front vs the rounded front. I am concerned about gas mileage, etc with the square front. Anyone have any experiences with this type trailer. |
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Location: Home of Wild Turkey Whiskey | I would think that weight of the trailer, not wind resistance would be a much bigger factor in the fuel milage equasion. Example, your tow vehicle is probley punching a big enough hole it the wind to pull a bumper pull trailer through. I am not an engineer but I pull a 7 1/2 tall trailer and on long runs, 300 miles or more the bugs are accumulating on the top 12 inches or so of the front of the trailer. JMO  |
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| Originally written by 4beatg8 on 2006-03-13 1:05 PM
I am looking at purchasing a new BP 14 ft. stock trailer. I have found several I like but they have a square front vs the rounded front. I am concerned about gas mileage, etc with the square front. Anyone have any experiences with this type trailer.
Somewhere else I posted fuel consumption figures for pulling my 2 horse bumper pull with 2 horses vs a 4 horse gooseneck with 4 horses. The difference was trivial and I attributed that to the gooseneck trailer being closer to the truck than the bumperpull trailer.
I think the square back that horse trailers drag around is the aerodynamic factor.
Unless you're doing primarily highway miles and LOT of them aerodynamics is unlikely to affect your total running costs significantly.
Round vs square vs wedge is more marketting than engineering (-:
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| Your wind factor will always pull harder then the weight factor, I have one camper trailer that is taller than my horse trailer and a square nose, it weighs in at about 5000# it pulls so much harder and I drop down on my fuel mileage, but my horse trailer weighing at 10,000 lbs pulls easier and I get better fuel mileage, when I hook to my little 14' trailer I think that the truck is making fuel it has no wind factor or weight factor.
On my job I haul oversize loads I may be 14' tall and 14'wide even if it don't weigh anything it sure pulls hard there is times that I may be smaller size but grossed out at 100,000# it don't pull as hard as the oversize lighter load. |
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Location: Northern IN. | Kinda funny how that works, ain't it? I know what'cha mean, get this... everyone knows I truck livestock, but if I haul a load of "dead weight" in the wagon it pulls harder than "live weight". seriously. The exact same wagon with, say 4 pallots of milk replacer (8,000#'s) will pull noticably harder than 10,000#'s of live cattle! Go figure that one. I know it's true, but never could realy put my finger on just WHY! I know it's a bit off topic, but JD's post got me ta thinkin' about it.
Edited by Broken Bit 2006-03-16 7:32 PM
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| Originally written by Broken Bit on 2006-03-16 8:31 PM
Kinda funny how that works, ain't it? I know what'cha mean, get this... everyone knows I truck livestock, but if I haul a load of "dead weight" in the wagon it pulls harder than "live weight". seriously. The exact same wagon with, say 4 pallots of milk replacer (8,000#'s) will pull noticably harder than 10,000#'s of live cattle! Go figure that one. I know it's true, but never could realy put my finger on just WHY! I know it's a bit off topic, but JD's post got me ta thinkin' about it.
Awww, c'mon - Ya know the answer t' THAT one....
METHANE !!!
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Location: Northern IN. | Reg, Are you suggesting that I should rate my rig in "cattle-power" instead of Horse-Power!?! LOL vroom, vroom, baby! |
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