transporting carriers

[Douglas Greville]

Originally Posted by Rob Beale

weighs about 1 tonne, so figure less for the cut down hull, and any rust holes.

In NZ the towing vehicle must be heavier than the towed trailer plus load.
This means any load in the towing vehicle helps with traction and stability.

I too have experienced a jack knifed tandem trailer, fortunately at a slower speed. Key lesson for me was keeping the centre of gravity forward of the centre of the axles, (maybe over the front axle?)

Most light vehicles allow only 500kg as the total towed weight.
You probably need an SUV or big ute, (Falcon etc) to tow 2000kg or more.

best wishes
Rob

Rob

I don't want to start an argument, but I am very sure a carrier hull weighs a lot more than 1 tonne. I have towed an LP2 bare hull but with
all road wheels, on a car trailer and can remember it as feeling a lot heavier
than that. Car trailers are typically 750kg by themselves and with anything heavier than about 850kg exceed the rating of standard passenger car
towbars (1600kg) (Falcon/Commodore). Thus, unless the towing car has a Hayman Reese style heavy duty bar PLUS tow pack (auto trans cooler at a minimum) then something is likely to break.

A totally bare hull, with no warp axle, no warp bogies, no rear boggies,
no rear plate and no air scoop would have to be around 1/2 tonne to 3/4
tonne lighter. However, most hulls I have come across typically were
not that bare. More likely was a cut down hull but with most of the
undercarriage still on it and that is heavy stuff.

I once had a warp axle with bogies that had been cut out of a hull and the bloke I sold it to told me that it weighed 750kg when he took it over a weigh bridge on the way home. There was the minimum of armour still around such
that the person who cut it out had stayed in as tight as he could with the
Oxy torch when cutting the hull.

Regards
Doug