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Location: With my son on the water | It seems like the Tandem axle trailers have many advantages but the one comment by everyone is they are hard to move by hand.
For those of you who have tandem axle trailers could you give me a true sence of what hard to move means?
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| Pretend your a bird looking down over a single axle trailer. When you try to streer the trailer the trailer tounge goes either right or left. When you are turning the trailer the axel is the pivot point, one tire rotates clock wise the other counter clock wise (assuming the trailer is staying in location and moving by hand). Turning the trailer is easy because each wheel can move freely.
Now your the same bird looking down on a dual axel trailer. when you go to steer the boat left or right, which axel will the rig pivot on? The answer is the axel with the most traction, so in order to turn the trailer (again by hand) you must over come the force required to slide the two tires on the axel with less traction (the tires will act like they want to roll off the bead of the rim). Really what your doing is dragging one axel along for the ride when turning sharp at the slow speed of moving by hand.
Normally you do not have a light boat if your trailer has two axels, so that makes it all the much harder, thats why the tip from the previous post said to rise your jack all the way or lower it to get as much weight off one axel so it wont have alot of grip and makes it easy to han move.
Moving a dual axel trailer strait foward and back ward is almost as easy as a single, its the axels fighting each other when turning is what makes it hard to manuver by hand
Edited by anzomcik 1/8/2014 8:18 AM
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Location: 31 | btfish - 1/8/2014 6:50 AM
It seems like the Tandem axle trailers have many advantages but the one comment by everyone is they are hard to move by hand.
For those of you who have tandem axle trailers could you give me a true sence of what hard to move means?
Thanks and have a good day :-)
Hard to move in that I can hardly budge my heavy dual axle boat and trailer when hooking it up... it's not even worth the effort if it’s off by 2-3” and it’s easier to just realign the tow vehicle (unlike my single axle boat trailers in the past that just had to be kind of close). I keep my rig in a pole barn and can only move the boat with my tow vehicle or skid loader with a ball hitch on the bucket. |
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