A 2007 H & H TRAILER CAR/SLED HAULER trailer just sold in Moose Jaw on an SGI total loss bid.
It might be worth a shot to see if you could locate who bought it to see if you could rent it if you`re in no big hurry or for the next time around.

 

I wish it was a Shelby I was hauling home!!! But yeah it's my Cobra that I need to get to my parents farm. I check into the one from SGI, thanks for the heads up.

 

hope you get something figured out Colin.

 

I`d try to wait till spring, even a little salt goes a long way on car bodies....

 

I wish i could wait until then but I may need to move it within the next couple of weeks. It will be hard to drive it in the winter, since I have never done that before. I'll be the slowest guy on the road (or the fastest!)

 

In that case even a open car trailer with wrap it up real well would be better than driving it on a saltly road....IF you can`t find a very close location to store it. If you drive real slow everyone will pass spraying you, if you drive fast then you`ll spray yourself.
In the case of one of My Mustangs driving it on a salt/potash laden highway would be my very last resort, something like my last act, just before
death.....

 

wrap her real good in flannel bedsheets and tarps. wrap the bottom first, then the top, keeping all the seams facing rearward. salt sucks. not only does it wreck our vehicles, but its wrecking my garage floor too!!

 

I think I may just do that if I can't find an enclosed.

 

You guys are going a tad overboard. Salt will hurt a vehicle yes, but if its getting hauled on a trailer, unless the road is kind of wet, the salt will not spray that much.

What I would do is haul it on an open car trailer, protect the front of the car with a tarp or whatnot, then when you get it where you are going, just rinse it off really well. Take it to a carwassh nearby and take er easy the rest of the way there.

 

This may be plan B.

 

Where are you towing it from/to? Im not sure where herbert is, but I have an 18 foot car trailer.

 

Surge brakes are a hydraulic brake system activated from the trailer coupler with a master cylinder on the trailer hitch. Any pressure on the coupler such as braking or slowing down on the tow unit puts pressure on the coupler resulting on hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinders. Th harder the tow unit brakes the more pressure from the coupler brake cylinder to the wheel cylinders. Needless to say you can`t back a trailer up with surge brakes though there is a lock out for the brakes when backing a trailer.
The salt/potash on the roads is terrible when wet. Only slightly better when dry when this crap dries to a fine salty, corrosive dust reaching into small areas on a car body that very hard to wash good enough to completely remove all of it. One trip shouldn`t do too much damage but why risk it?
Remember that car bodies rust mainly from inside out starting inbetween & underneath in the seams. You don`t see rust untill it`s pretty bad, almost when metal is already getting crusty.
When ricers were first deported from Japan in the late 60`s/early 70`s they were almost rusty by the time they rolled off the boat....Cars near the Gulf of Mexico rust from the top down by the saltly humid air.
Did I mention I really hate salt/potash on our roads.....

 

Herbert is down near Swift Current and it is going from here to my parents farm near Leross (north of Fort Qu'Appelle). That may be a bit far to come get the trailer but I appreciate the offer. I think my Dad found an open trailer he will bring down next week and then take back for me.

 

I do too fom i hate salt and rust period

 

thanks Fom!!!