5x8 or 5x10 utility trailer
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10-06-2007, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MisterCMK
hmm, maybe I should take my buddy up on his offer to let me use his pickup and 45' gooseneck trailer to go haul my leaves/grass/sticks to the compost. 
enjoy your choice - you were the only one to decide what you needed. sounds like a good choice to me.
#38
10-07-2007, 07:26 PM
I am a welder by profesion and teach welding at our local highscool with all the trailers I have built or worked on for people over the years I would suggest a 5x10 or even a 6x10 for the applications you are going to use it for I would also go for the Afram type tounge and the tubeing frame over the angle for more duribility and not that much more weight try to get a trailer with a 3500lb axel and spring assembly if posiable in the long run you wont regreit it most of these come with 15in tires and have a 5 on 5 chevy pattern. as for tilt or gate versions I like tilt you can have a slide in talegate made if needed to keep things from slideing out
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10-08-2007, 10:42 PM
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like i said the 5x10 will be the most used trailer, just remember it is back there when backing up, i somehow know this. fixing a truck bedside cost more than the trailer, i installed a headache rack on the front of the trailer so i could see(remember) it back there... dont ask me how i know?
#42
10-11-2007, 03:36 PM
Originally Posted by sp metalman
I am a welder by profesion and teach welding at our local highscool with all the trailers I have built or worked on for people over the years I would suggest a 5x10 or even a 6x10 for the applications you are going to use it for I would also go for the Afram type tounge and the tubeing frame over the angle for more duribility and not that much more weight try to get a trailer with a 3500lb axel and spring assembly if posiable in the long run you wont regreit it most of these come with 15in tires and have a 5 on 5 chevy pattern. as for tilt or gate versions I like tilt you can have a slide in talegate made if needed to keep things from slideing out
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10-11-2007, 09:56 PM
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10-15-2007, 05:49 PM
Originally Posted by atillett
thats the standard on mongoose trailers, has been since he started making them in 1992. you could get different sizes but it is up to the customer. it really depends on the mfg, but down here in this part of tx it is the standard......
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10-18-2007, 10:41 PM
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he probly did not get a mongoose, but that is the standard down here, our company owns 14 trailers, and all but the 3 tandems, are 5 on 5's. the only exeption is one cargo and it is a 4.5 pattern. im sure it probaly depends on location and america is a large country..im sure that neither one of us is wrong, and im pretty positive that there is not a govermental policy on "standardized" trailer tires. it is just what is common here..