Trailer length question

[bwaters932]

Hello all, long time lurker here with a dilema. I am in the design process of a gen ben but I have a bit of a snag. I want to design the trailer with a receiver in the back for my dirt bike and a platform in the front for the wife's four wheeler. I figure for the deck of the trailer with the fourwheeler and a 8' benroy is only 12' and should be fine, then I second guess myself. I will be building the trailer myself. Any ideas?

[bobhenry]

Why not concider a 4 place snowmobile trailer. Perhaps even a tandum axle.
You can side load the 4 wheeler and the bike and sleep 6' wide from side to side in the center cabin. With a little thinkin' the quad's perch could become a settin' porch with the aid of a fixed roof or a removable canopy.

They all don't have to be teardrops !

[bwaters932]

I'm sure that this is going to sound off but i'm trying to keep it relatively light weight so it can be pulled with my wife's explorer if desired. With wanting to pull it with her rig that rules out the wide trailer, we have decided to keep it to 5' wide and that also makes a tandem hard to do with her rig. I am strugling with axle placement, because the quad will not always be on the trailer so I don't want a funky tongue weight... so many scenarios so little time....

[droid_ca]

New Build "The Castaway" check out his one it might help
http://tnttt.com/viewto ... t=slideout

[bobhenry]

I'm sure that this is going to sound off but i'm trying to keep it relatively light weight so it can be pulled with my wife's explorer if desired. With wanting to pull it with her rig that rules out the wide trailer, we have decided to keep it to 5' wide and that also makes a tandem hard to do with her rig. I am strugling with axle placement, because the quad will not always be on the trailer so I don't want a funky tongue weight... so many scenarios so little time....

Apparently you have never pulled a tandum. With properly placed axles and correctly balanced the tongue weight is far less than a 2 wheel trailer.
My 8 x 20 flat bed trailer pulls far better and easier behing my 1/2 ton pickup than my largest teardrop ( Chubby) My next build will be on the larger size and it will be on a tandum axle trailer. Build as you see it being used and enjoy the fun of building as well as camping in it , what ever it becomes.

[KIDZAGN]

just for an idea go to LITTLE GUY TRAILERS web site and check out the
6-wide sport model. A guy I work with saw one did some measuring and plans to haul a 4 wheeler & Dirt bike on thr front.