Trailer length for 2 pieces of equipment

Noticed the other day that the deck/frame of our 20+5ft 16klb GN is tweaked, so its time to sell it and get something bigger. Going to get a tandem dual wheel trailer. Plan is to haul our JCB mini-ex, and our Cat 236 skid steer together. The JCB weighs 9500, and is 8ft long(16ft with boom/bucket down). Cat weighs 6500, and is 11'6" with a bucket. Just not sure how long of a trailer we need to comfortably haul em together. Gotta say its gets old making 2 trips, or having to have my brother haul something out since our employee's don't pull trailers.

JD3020 said:

Noticed the other day that the deck/frame of our 20+5ft 16klb GN is tweaked, so its time to sell it and get something bigger. Going to get a tandem dual wheel trailer. Plan is to haul our JCB mini-ex, and our Cat 236 skid steer together. The JCB weighs 9500, and is 8ft long(16ft with boom/bucket down). Cat weighs 6500, and is 11'6" with a bucket. Just not sure how long of a trailer we need to comfortably haul em together. Gotta say its gets old making 2 trips, or having to have my brother haul something out since our employee's don't pull trailers.

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28-30'.

^whs. something I found out is you can never get one too long but can always get one too short. Mine is 30 and I wish it was 36+

30+5 and I would get a deck on the neck!

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I'd love to go 30ft+, but we do a lot of residential and downtown work where space is limited. A LOT of cul-de-sacs where i'm already doing 3-point turns in my f450, and its tight with an 18ft bumper pull. Slightly better with my brothers 05 ECSB and 25ft GN just because it turns so short. I'd like to think i wouldn't be in too many situations like that, but it will happen.

Then I'd get a shorter GN but get a deck on the neck where you can rest the skidsteer bucket or track hoes bucket, save space.

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Our current trailer has a deck on the neck, next trailer will too for sure. But putting the skid steer bucket up there wouldn't work. But both our Cat's have cabs, and you have to have the bucket all the way up or down to open the door. Putting the bucket of the mini up there isn't a bad idea though, although i'd have to watch my height.


This is one of those times i wish i was good friends with somebody that had a 30ft GN i could try-out for a couple days. One of our neighbors has a 25+5 25k trailer, but its hydro-dove. And i know once i spend some time with a hydro-dove i'll refuse to get a conventional dove trailer. LOL

I have a 28' (23+5). I think I'd go longer then 30 if you want to put them both on there and have some room left. If you wanted to carry extra attachments you'd either be good at tetris to make them fit somewhere on the deck, or have a deck up on the neck to set a few things on. Also if you plan to have 16-20k on the deck plus the trailer weight (figure all of 7,000lbs for a quality trailer) I'd get 12k axles and electric over hydraulic brakes. Electric drums suck, poor excuse for brakes. I hate mine.

My 23+5. 10.5' snow box, 7.5' plow standing up right, 72" grapple bucket, 78" dirt bucket up on the neck, and the TL230 and 48" pallet forks on the rear. I think the only thing missing was my bale spears and boom lift, couldn't figure out where to put them safely so they went on another trip.



Same trailer again. 1941 JD "A", Case 445 and 80" bucket, atv on the ramps.


Same 23+5. The 10.5' snow box and my TL230.





Here's the farm's 30+5. Case 90XT and SR270 with rock buckets and then a grapple bucket right up against the front.





Edit. I plan to go with at least a 35ft on my next trailer. 36-40ft is more likely. Hydraulic dove (lets you use all the deck space with equipment instead of loosing the last 4-6' due to ramps, 15k axles with EOH drums, 17.5" tires (with polished Alcoa's of course) extra storage boxes, extra lights, 2 speed jacks, and a winch plate. Costly, but big enough you could still load multiple pieces of equipment on it and still be ok instead of 10-15,000lbs over weight and having zero deck space left.

JD3020 said:

Our current trailer has a deck on the neck, next trailer will too for sure. But putting the skid steer bucket up there wouldn't work. But both our Cat's have cabs, and you have to have the bucket all the way up or down to open the door.

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Can't you unlock the bucket pins on the ground, set the bucket up on the deck then back away all without getting out? Just reverse the process to get the bucket back down.