Posted 2008-05-25 3:31 PM (#84631) Subject: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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Location: Healdsburg, CA
I'm needing a new horse trailer, and would like advice on which brand(s) might be best. I have a team of large Percherons that need trailering occasionally to parades, etc. More frequently I am trailering my quarter horses for trail rides, sometimes a full day's drive away. I'm hoping for aluminum, and have decided on a 3-horse that's at least 7 feet tall, bumper pull.
Any advice from anyone who has experience with these hauls?
Posted 2008-05-25 4:21 PM (#84633 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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Originally written by pamelack on 2008-05-25 4:31 PM
I'm needing a new horse trailer, and would like advice on which brand(s) might be best. I have a team of large Percherons that need trailering occasionally to parades, etc. More frequently I am trailering my quarter horses for trail rides, sometimes a full day's drive away. I'm hoping for aluminum, and have decided on a 3-horse that's at least 7 feet tall, bumper pull.
Any advice from anyone who has experience with these hauls?
Thank you.
pamelack
How do you plan on getting your wagon to the parades?
Posted 2008-05-25 4:28 PM (#84634 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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I believe I would be looking for something taller than 7' for "large Percherons". You need something to haul horses as well as a wagon/cart? Are you driving these Percherons? Bumper pull you say?
Just throwing stuff at you. All the Percherons I've seen were big heavy animals...... And with that I would want a big heavy trailer....A big heavy GOOSENECK TRAILER! With wide stalls.
Posted 2008-05-25 8:39 PM (#84647 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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Thanks for the bumper pull/gooseneck ideas. Our3/4ton diesel p/up pulls our 5th wheel RV - it's a totally different hitch, and one that needs two big guys to take out of the bed. My issue is that we'll get home Sunday p.m., the foreman isn't working to help my husband with the hitch, my husband then leaves early the next morning for work, and I want to ride.....but can't switch hitches. As much as I'd love a gooseneck, I think I have to make do with a bumper pull.
And the Percherons...they'll haul in a 7; now, so I figure they can keep doing it. They know how to duck their heads!
Posted 2008-05-25 10:20 PM (#84653 - in reply to #84647) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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I have a gooseneck alum trailer eby and I move my draft horse and my friends quarter horse in it, I think that the goosenecks can be made to fit your 5th wheel like your RV?? not sure but I remember reading something about that
Posted 2008-05-26 6:39 PM (#84681 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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Posts: 5870 Location: western PA
I don't know from a personal ownership, but I've read about and talked to people who have a high regard for the Eby brand of stock trailers. I saw some at Congress and was impressed with their construction.
Posted 2008-05-26 10:48 PM (#84704 - in reply to #84689) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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I own an eby stock combo trailer ,I bought it because the beef farm down the road from me has all eby trailer and they beat the living hell out of them and they hold up so I fingered that my draft horse would not do halve as much to the trailer as the cattle do.
Posted 2008-05-27 2:36 PM (#84756 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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Posts: 2828 Location: Southern New Mexico
You can get an adaptor to fit your 5th wheel so it will use a gooseneck ball. We have one and use the ballfor both our camper and horse trailer. Ours came as a "free" adaptor with the camper from the dealer but they sold them for about $300 I think.
Posted 2008-05-28 10:37 AM (#84808 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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I have to agree with Terri in having the adapter to fit both a 5th wheel and gooseneck trailer. I had one of these for about 9 years now and it works great. The big benefit to it, aside from strength, is that you do not lose the bed of your truck to some big hunk of metal for a 5th wheel hitch. Dealers will tell you that they are "easily removed". Baloney - with 2 men and a boy, you still get a hernia trying to get that puppy out of the truckbed and on the ground. As to the new trailer question, take a look at the gooseneck packages that have the "warmblood" options with a 7' 6" height and wider stalls. If you only have two horses, there is a 2H straight load WB option that is nice from Featherlite. I just purchased a new 3H slant GN with the warmblood for myself as I have some large horses (16H) that took up too much room in my old straight pull trailer.
Posted 2008-05-28 1:55 PM (#84819 - in reply to #84631) Subject: RE: Needing a New Horse Trailer
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You might consider a 2+1 style. That way you could haul your horses and the wagon (depending on size) or 3 horses, or 2 horses and a golf cart, etc... Careful going with a slant load with your Percherons. I have a Percheron cross that I have a tough time fitting in most slant loads. Some brands have wider stall widths than others. Speaking of slant stall widths, be sure to measure the actual usable stall width, not what is listed on the brochures. There is a difference most of the time.
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