@Hickey builds them on the side now, get your order in quick before he gets bogged down with trailer builds
The Jeep Dolly
- Thread starter Hickey
- Start date
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Shhhh. That's sorta still secret. 😎
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
There are definitely a few things I would change for a more non-personalized version. It's not much work if I didn't go OCD on the floors and tie downs.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I've thought multiple times about building something like this for my Buick. Super low and probably pretty long to keep the approach angle appropriate for low hanging headers. @ebryson trailer works excellent to haul my Buick but the 4-5' ramps leave me loading it on a hill or similar. Not being 4x4 and having 600+ ft lb of torque, ramps are more exciting than I'd like them to be
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
A tilting deck would be nice for cars like yours.I've thought multiple times about building something like this for my Buick. Super low and probably pretty long to keep the approach angle appropriate for low hanging headers. @ebryson trailer works excellent to haul my Buick but the 4-5' ramps leave me loading it on a hill or similar. Not being 4x4 and having 600+ ft lb of torque, ramps are more exciting than I'd like them to be
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
I've thought multiple times about building something like this for my Buick. Super low and probably pretty long to keep the approach angle appropriate for low hanging headers. @ebryson trailer works excellent to haul my Buick but the 4-5' ramps leave me loading it on a hill or similar. Not being 4x4 and having 600+ ft lb of torque, ramps are more exciting than I'd like them to be
I ended up loading my lowered El Camino on my 16' car hauler a couple times and it has super short ramps (because 4x4's).
My solution was to pull the rear tires of the truck up onto 4" blocks, tilting the back of the trailer down. It worked quite well, I could load my car without hanging up on anything... it was close, but did the job.
BCGPER
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- Location
- Sunny Arizona
Loading low cars is simple. Just pull the back of your truck up on ramps, that puts the back of your trailer just above ground level. My 34 is extremely low on the front and center, this method has never failed me.I've thought multiple times about building something like this for my Buick. Super low and probably pretty long to keep the approach angle appropriate for low hanging headers. @ebryson trailer works excellent to haul my Buick but the 4-5' ramps leave me loading it on a hill or similar. Not being 4x4 and having 600+ ft lb of torque, ramps are more exciting than I'd like them to be
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
As it sits right now, I can't even get my fist under the header collector. I do have some white oak 4x6 blocks with a mitered end. I'd just throw them in the bed of my tow rig. They work exactly like you're saying. I'll have to rig up a way to haul the blocks in the Navigator.
Blocks are also awesome jacks for when you get a flat trailer tire. Loosen the lugs, pull fwd onto the blocks (or back if you lost a front tire), swap out the tires and back the trailer off the block. Handy jack without the jacking part
The car will be getting a bit of a lift (stock springs) relatively soon. That should help.
rholbrook
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- Location
- Kaysville, Ut
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Towed this junk to Sand Hollow. Averaged 13 mpg on the way down, though I had a nice tail wind. Had a brake/tail light go out on the trailer after some road debris severed the ground wire. All fixed now.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Brennan made a video about his similarly built trailer. We both have 4 years on these trailers and well over 10k miles.
Last month I attended Trail Hero, and I had to trailer the buggy in and out of the park each day. It’s so simple and quick to load/unload and tie down.