Rollback or Truck & trailer? hauling etc - Page 3

Originally Posted by Libertytow

Diablo if you must have a tilt bed check to see how it tilts is it a J style or sliding pins i bent the J"s in and basically totalled the trailer the sliding pins can get caught on a off centered load i.e right pin moves before left resultiong in twisting on the pins and frame i prefer trailers with ramps and winches if i need to lift the nose aof a car more put down wood and ramp it

i "ld recommend a 3/4 to 1 ton truck gas truck and a trailer20-21 feet long i prefer duallies but if your starting out the overhead is ALOT higher

It's not a must, it's just that I used to do this many years ago and had a rollback and life was easy. But I don't want to spend the money / pay the insurance for a rollback. So I was thinking that a tilt bed would be similar. My main concern is cars with no wheels.



Thanks for the input.

hey guys sorry was away for a bit been online alotttttttt looking up...

seen a car hauler , i think he said it was a car trailer? iunno i know the add says it can haul equip and a car..so i called asked him what it was he did say it has a flatdeck with beaver tail and then u hook up another set of ramps, he wants like 4 grand for it, comes with winch hooked up i guess, uhhh what else its a 88 ford... sounds like i should go have a look would be nice if i could see what it looks like instead of wasting his time.

what does a beavertail truck look like? i wasnt to interested because he said it needed another set of ramps but if the winch could pull a car up i would be happy with it.... i know he said flatdeck with beaver tail&winch, NOT a rollback...

i want to have a few uses for the truck i buy i noticed the guy saying ithas the lift stuff for a dump truck, that sorta made me wanna buy it , iwant a truck that i could do a few things with ya know

i was watching gears on speed yesterday and they had a trailer on there telling you what you could do with a winch and how to keep your battery charged up to winch the vehicles on to the trailer.they had a solar powered charger mounted on top of the tool box that keeps the battery charged up to full charge to run the winch.i just thought i would pass that tip alo.g to you guys.

Our trailer is similar to this one. Cost $4,000 new. 18 foot deck. 14,000 lbs. In your search for a trailer I would suggest finding one with attached ramps, versus the slide in ramps. They are heavy as hell and at the end of the day it's just a lot easier to flip up the ramp, lock it in and go. Should the ramps ever need removed, (and we have a few times), a pin is removed, then the bar that the ramps ride on slides out. Another thing I like about it is I can slide the ramps close together to run 4 wheelers up.

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

Depends on the trailer.

I hauled one of these:



With one of these:



Towing it with one of these:



Was picking up 2 step vans at the time. One ran, other didn't. Didn't have a winch, so I put 3 chains together, positioned dead van at trailer ramps, then used other step van parallel to trailer to pull dead van onto trailer. Hope that makes sense. I suck at explanations sometimes.

2500 or 3500?.. whats a truck like that worth?..what year is that one?... what a older dually worth? i think iv made up my mind.

don't short yourself go 3500 i just told someone to buy chevy lol f350 would be my choice get 1 ton you have to with that trailer

Truck is an 08 F350 4X4 with the V10
Since the truck is my office, It has heated leather seats

Also has the BOSS V plow for winter money
I consider snow to be a Ca$H crop



I use a short 2 car trailer that lifts the first one, slight beaver tail on the back
Ramps slide into the back of the trailer just under where they hook onto the trailer >> Easy out of the way storage
Ramp ridge goes all the way across the back of the trailer so I can adjust the width of the ramps as needed
2 winches incase 1 breaks
3 hand winches (marked with red arrows) with 4" straps along the side so if getting a car I know I am going to scrap, I just toss the straps over the top
Lots of D rings >> You never know what you will be getting
Also holes in the deck for hooks





Plow lights as back up lights >> Low beam
Switch to turn on high beams as work lights when needed

Originally Posted by TERROR

This is true in alot of states, here in ny any pickup over 5990lbs has to be registered as commercial..or you can be like me and transfer your plates and rock passenger plates on your dually

to answer the OP, it all depends on what you are doing. I use a rollback at work for hauling scrap and cars and it is much easier but if you dont scrap enough to warrant a rollback a truck and flatbed trailer will do just fine

Florida is like 5000 lbs. I just got a 1 ton dually and the only difference I saw was that they charged me more and you renew Dec 31 instead of your birthday. You also had to choose a max weight including passengers. The min was 5999, but that would be pretty much the truck and driver with one passenger. I choose 7999. I would have to look and check what all I was charged, but I think in the end my yearly reg cost will be like $175.

equipment trailer
tandem axle equipment trailer. tag along. 10-12,000 gvw. made by superduty. completely new brakes[ shoes,actuators,plates , springs etc] solid deck. fenders done a couple years ago.

This looks nice, it has a 16'x82" deck. 8 lug wheels, 6000lb axles. (Tires/wheel could match my truck, good just in case for spare situations)

Think its worth the price anyone?

Get a Benlee system..Alot more money, but worth it in my mind. They sell crushed car haulers I think.