ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Trailer ratings

Re: Trailer ratings

Sullys Maze (Sully@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU)
Sun, 4 May 97 09:19:19 PDT

REPLY TO 05/03/97 23:23 FROM ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Trailer ratings

My tidbit: I have a '90 Logan Coach, two horse modified stock, 12X6 slant
load, front lighted tack room I can stand in, all steel, weight 2140#. This
trailer is a delight to maneuver empty or loaded, and has that stock
advantage of holding about 50 bales of hay when you fold the door/divider to
the wall. My two mares have used it as a temporary stall with the divider
folded flat; room enough for one to turn, not enough to try lying down.
Major pain: rust, the usual. (BTW, anyone have advice for efficient
do-it-yourself rust inhibition/treatment? I'd love to have this trailer in
aluminum, sometime when I'm indep wealthy. My V6 gets real slow on these
Virginia hills with it.)

*I have a similiar size trailer, but a Morgan, which is a "cheaper"
trailer than the Logan. I got it new in 95, and the first week I
had
it home, I spend quite a bit of time "killing" any rust spots I
saw, and also caulked the heck out of all the seams. Then, I also
waxed the whole darn thing, though in retrospect I wish I had just
done a kerosine wash. Anyway, despite sitting out in the weather, I
have had very little rust form. I also clean out the trailer every
fall (before winter rains), and kill rust, and then hit those spots
with rustoleum paint, then grease all hinges and moving parts. The
trailer looks pretty darn good, except all those places there OTHER
people's horses kicked!

*I am also very happy with the hinged tack room divider. At camp,
you can pin it back to the wall, and have the entire inside of the
trailer to set things up in. I also bought the trailer without
any partitions for the horses-I feel it is safer to haul that way,
the that the less "things" inside the trailer with the horses, the
less for them to get caught on.

Karen

(Wonder if we could stimulate Consumer Reports (or similar org.) to do a
detailed study as they now do on trucks? Sure took them long enough to
start on pickups! Have to say I'm a big fan of CR...wish we had one for the
specialty items as well as the general use items. Who knows? Maybe they or
someone would consider it, in light of the numbers of HTs out there...
Or maybe such a study has been published. Anyone know?)

Sally Spangler (stepnout@swva.net)
Sally (stepnout@swva.net)

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