rare find

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi all - ever since I became involved with Carriers my dream was to obtain one of these trailers. Another MLUer has one of these but I will let him respond.

A Northern Territory pioneer and trucker, Kurt Johannsen, bought twenty three of these trailers after the war and converted them to the first self tracking trailers for carting cattle. He described them as "they had two big wheels and stub-axles welded onto the frame and a spare tyre and wheel, all with big almost brand new 1125 x 20 tyres on them"

The above is an extract from his book A Son Of The Red Centre, a well worthwile read.

Bob

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi again - looking at teh second image I would say these trailers were towed by a Blitz, besides which that goes with the era. The other exciting thing about this trailer is that it retained its nomenclature plate.

Bob

[George McKenzie]

There is a maximum weight in Canada that a single axel trailer can haul and it is much smaller then a carrier.I have the 8 ton Fruheauf lowboy trailer that hauled carriers and cats .It has the dolly in the front for towing .The brakes are air brakes. I can pull it with my Diamond T wrecker as it is air brakes allso . But it won.t be going far as it only goes 38 miles and hour at 3 miles to the gallon . I have hauled carriers with my two 7000 lb axel trailer with my 3/4 truck with no problem .The 3500 lb axels are too small for this

[Matthew Reid]

The laws go province to province for axel weights.

The maximum single axle trailer weight in Alberta is 9100 Kg's (20,000 LBS) w/duals 7700 kgs (17,000 lbs) w/super singles 4700 kg's (10,000 lbs) w/singles

So I think the Carrier at about 7500 lbs and the trailer would come just under the maximum axle weight for Alberta

Matthew

[George McKenzie]

We had a 500 gallon fuel tank on a single axel trailer and were told to get a tandem trailer .I'll do some checking on this . I know we never see them any more on the road . To haul a carrier with duals it would be over width or you would have to put the carrier above the wheels .With tires big enough to carry the weight it would be a pretty unstable load .

[Bob McNeill]

Mongrel thing to load with a flat tyre, had 1/2 tyre off each side. the mud guard appear to have been army fitted. Once on the ground again all wheel nuts came off easily, big brake drum.

[Keith Webb]

Glad I don't have to remove those tyres!

[Matthew Reid]

Originally Posted by George McKenzie

We had a 500 gallon fuel tank on a single axel trailer and were told to get a tandem trailer .I'll do some checking on this . I know we never see them any more on the road . To haul a carrier with duals it would be over width or you would have to put the carrier above the wheels .With tires big enough to carry the weight it would be a pretty unstable load .

Ya those figures were right off the Alberta Motor Vehicles Website in the regulations.

And the question is who told you. Police certainly do not always know the regs. We used to get flak for pulling the M101CDN Trailer behined the holiday trailer (Caravan for our brit friends) The Holiday trailer was NOT a 5th wheel but no where in the regs did it say the primary trailer had to be a 5 wheel. Now the regs have changed and they specifically state that the primary trailer must be a 5th wheel.

Alberta and Sask are the only provinces in the Country I belive that will let non Comercial vehicles double up trailers.

I think they may have asked you to get a tandem axel trailer cause you may have been over weight when the road bans are inplace in the spring.


Matthew

[George McKenzie]

I think it was that hauling a heavy load with singles and you had a flat tire you would loose control of your vehicle .