I'm just curious as to what everybody's favorite feature of their trailer is, hopefully something that is unique to that brand. Lots of questions about what is the best brand floating around, but the real question is what is the best feature and which brands have them? Hoping to not hear "my trailer is white" or "it hauls all three horses". For example, I have a Logan and my favorite feature is they come standard with drop down windows on the butt side as well as the head side.
Posted 2007-07-31 1:53 AM (#64725 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 189 Location: nashville, In.
My American Spirit has mangers. Where the wall would be between the rear tack and under the managers is open so if I have something long (tent poles, etc.) I can slide them in there.
Also there are emergency latches on the inside of the manger door so if a child would happen to climb inside they could get out.
I also like my outside water faucet that comes standard on this brand of trailer.
Posted 2007-07-31 5:36 AM (#64730 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 1283 Location: Home of Wild Turkey Whiskey
I think the best feature of any trailer is the awning, that's where you spend all your time. I put as big of an awning on my trailers as they will hold. Last one was 22 feet long.
Posted 2007-07-31 10:29 AM (#64744 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 129 Location: Northwest Ohio
We bought our LQ used so we didn't choose what we wanted or didn't want as options. We do lots of dry camping so a toilet and shower were musts for us. But as far as features on our trailer, I love the solar panel battery charger. We can make it an entire weekend with no battery issues if we conserve on the lights and water pump. We also have mangers and under the mangers is a built-in 35-gallon water tank so we can carry water for the horses too. These are items we didn't have on our "must" list but they are awesome now that we have them.
Posted 2007-07-31 10:57 AM (#64746 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 1205 Location: Arkansas
Love the awning, the generator with remote start and mangers on an 8 wide. Electric jacks a plus, too The hay rack and it's water storage..Stud partition so hay etc can be in there for when just I am on the road.. Plenty of room for the horses and a 20 gal fuel tank for the generator, makes life nice....
Posted 2007-07-31 4:14 PM (#64773 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 2953 Location: North Carolina
Butt side drop down windows for each horse. Allows a lot of ventilation while on the road. Or stopped, with both front and butt drops down, the trailer is just like a run in shed.
Haven't seen any other Sundowner with this feature. It must have been a special order. ( I bought it used)
Posted 2007-07-31 7:53 PM (#64780 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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My favorite part of my straight load trailer is the tubed head piece that goes between the horses. Lets in more light and keeps the horses from fussing too much.. also they like seeing eachother better. Before they would always put up their heads to see if they could see the other horse. Now they don't need to. :-)
Posted 2007-08-01 9:02 AM (#64814 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 71 Location: Northern CA
I added a water pump and some outside plumbing to the water tank and now I have the ability to attach a hose and rinse the horses off after riding/showing with pressurized water. It saves time and effort and CA is so hot during the summer, it comes in handy.
Posted 2007-08-02 1:56 AM (#64881 - in reply to #64702) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 148 Location: columbia tn
my favorites refrig/freezer no more ice chest..propane furnace it warms up quick,day night shades,polished alum slat sides all the way down (less white to contend with cleaning) hydrawlic jack for sure no more cranking,drop downs on both sides are great did not order them just happened to be on this one, hay rack could not do without one and the thing that gets the most remarks is the alum wheels, no rusting (so far that is) they really make the trailer... by far the best thing would be for it to be paid in full and that will be awhile... happy trails..
Posted 2007-08-02 9:45 PM (#64963 - in reply to #64962) Subject: RE: favorite trailer feature
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Posts: 736 Location: Western WA
Lots of people have shared some great (and not so great - leaking) features. What are the brands that go along with these features? I started the tread thinking it would be a good source of info for those who are trying to compare trailer brands when shopping. We get alot of questions about specific brands on this board, I thought it would be interesting to share a different perspective and talk about specific brand features.
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