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air bagged trailers
- Thread starter cybrfire
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sounds like a super idea. if it realy works.
4xcrazy
3/4 ton status
just need a constant air supply going to the trailer,,,just like the semi-tractors
TeK
1/2 ton status
i know a few people that have them. Some of the guys I cruise with at mini-truck shows use a bagged dually to haul with, have a bagged trailer, carrying a bagged mini-truck. Looks great going down the highway when the trailer throws just as many sparks as the truck.
DEMON44
Low-Tech Redneck
IMO, starting to go that way is a slippery slope and not neccisary. Like he said you need constant air for load leveling and suspension cycling so you're gonna need glad-hand connections...then why don't you just put air brakes on it......then you need your Class 1 to drive it......then why don't you just buy a used low boy shorty.....then....then.....
but thats just my oppinion. tri-axle leaf sprung gooseneck is an A-Ok trailer for about anything I can think of short of hauling an excavator behind a dump truck
but thats just my oppinion. tri-axle leaf sprung gooseneck is an A-Ok trailer for about anything I can think of short of hauling an excavator behind a dump truck
torsion axles ride nice. and dexter axle makes one up to 10k per axle. uses dulls and 5" wide shoes in the drums electric.
afroman006
1/2 ton status
I actually had this idea, but on a horse trailer. Horses are bitches about loading up into trailers and even bigger bitches about unloading so if you have a way to raise and lower the trailer it would make loading and unloading those $100k show horses much safer. Horse people pay stupid amounts of money for **** like that. I'm sure you could mount a remote electric pump on the trailer its self to run off the auxilary circuit on a normal 7 prong trailer plug.
I was just kicking it around. Torsion axles will probably be the way I go if I ever get around to building a trailer. Had never seen a gooseneck with airbags and didn't know why. Probably due to the need for a constant air supply.
4xcrazy
3/4 ton status
but, air ride trailers ride SOOOOOOOOOO much nicer,,,,
alittle frustrated at my company, they are buying brand new flatbed trailers, and spending extra money for slider winches, but nothing in the suspension department, still the rough riding spring ride setup,,,,oh well, they don't care if our kidneys are beat to mush, thay get to sit in a nice cozy little office all day
if i had the option of trailer suspension, for horses, or if i did car hauling or something like that daily with heavy stuff, i would pay the extra money for the air ride setup.
alittle frustrated at my company, they are buying brand new flatbed trailers, and spending extra money for slider winches, but nothing in the suspension department, still the rough riding spring ride setup,,,,oh well, they don't care if our kidneys are beat to mush, thay get to sit in a nice cozy little office all day
if i had the option of trailer suspension, for horses, or if i did car hauling or something like that daily with heavy stuff, i would pay the extra money for the air ride setup.
