Dual purpose enclosed?

[rhalloran]

Hey all - I'm going to get an enclosed trailer, and debating on deck-over vs not.

It looks like some of the non-deckovers have small fenderwells inside; saw a thread about making ramps over them. Not a bad idea.

What it is REALLY boiling down to is simple - deckover axles seem like they're about the same track as the truck; non-deckover, the axles appear wider than the truck. Is that the case? Might not be, looking at pictures - I know on my little open trailer, the axles are truck-width (the tires are pretty far under the deck).

Wondering about stability/pullability in snow. It seems to me that having the trailer tires inline with the truck would make it pull easier. Not a concern?

The other piece - it is going to carry a (light, 1950#) car in the summer. Deckover will make getting the car in/out tricky, unless it is a beavertail (low car).

Collective wisdom? I would _greatly_ prefer to have ONE trailer - I've lived with two for the past several years, and it is a pain. One trailer = several less headaches.

Thanks!


RH

 

[LoudHandle]

I see the non-deckover a pain for both uses. The car will likely not fit between them if as you say the trailers axles are the same width as the truck and hence car. Most of the trailers you buy to haul sleds in, the trailer nor the ramp is rated for loading / carrying a car. At least something to be aware of while you are shopping. My two cents.

 

[Coldfinger]

If you want to haul a car you probably need to get a car hauler based trailer and you can get/order these with V front and a front ramp door too.

With that, you will also get by default the wider axle with tires that track outside the normal track of a pickup.

My guess is the only time you will notice a significant difference in towing is if you're running in snow where the trailer tires have to make their own track thru the snow.

Another thing to think about, though your car only weighs 2000, the same as 4 sleds, that 2000 is not near as spread out as it is with sleds so the floor has to be stronger.

 

[turbolover]

Another thing to think about is what are the axles rated at. With the weight of the trailer and the car do you gave any room for extras? Tires, parts, generator, fuel anything else.
If it is a car trailer built to also haul sleds the car will fit between the fenders. With reverse on pretty much all the sleds (oh wait you cant use the AC reverse. Drive them in) you can drive 2 in and back 2 in. Narrow backends between the fenders and weight distributed better.

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[racerjb]

Most of the multi sport/mid deck trailer are built stronger so that they can haul a car. The ramp is built stronger and the frame is too. Where as the deck over sled trailers are built just for sleds/atvs. I would go with the mid deck. Depending on which manufacturer you go with you just put super glides over the fenders for riding the sleds over. The mid deck will also give you a little more ride height then a car hauler with a v-nose so that you won't be pushing to much snow.

 

[bebaldus]

Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents. I have a car hauler and and enclosed. My car hauler is open deck but when driving around bigger towns/cities i notice the car hauler tracks like poo. I am always curbing it. They are very usefull and if you need both it will work excelent. I also have a razor with tracks on it and until recently i didn't think it would fit in the enclosed so i always hauled it up the hill with the open deck car hauler. I only notice when there is snow it pulls a little harder....but that is why i have a diesel.