We sat behind a Gardener today who was using their car and a IW trailer to transport his Honda mower, Cow-horn strimmer and a few other items inside the trailer.
All reasonably secure / strapped down within the trailer, but what caught our eyes was the way the trailer was jumping around (partly due to the road surface).
The mower was 'bouncing', the handles jerking up and down, with Strimmer shaft flexing/oscillating.
The driver was doing nothing out of the ordinary (35-45mph) but suspect he had no idea the amount of stress he must be placing on his gear.
It was staggering and even I had not realized the amount of movement taking place (normally out of line of sight) - maybe the trailer was lightly loaded, hence bouncing more than if it were fully loaded.
Re-enforced my view of not carrying expensive, vital gear strapped down in trailer.
However suspect that a ride-on would reasonably ok due to weight and tyres to absorb the movement ???
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I imagine a small trailer with small load isn't to bad
Surely though if a single axle trailer the height of the tow ball wouldn't cause that much of a difference would it??
The big one is no where near as bad.
the height matters I think because the wheels are 8 feet from the tow bar instead of 11 or so on the big one also the axles are lower on the single axle.
More room to "swing" on the tow ball
I just imagined that medium trailer with little to nothing in would be pretty bad still
But I guess once you get into twin axle trailers or bigger even empty they are more stable. Because don't you need to ensure that both axle make even contact??
I had a discussion with my mechanical chap a couple of year ago about this. A few years beforehand, he had a customer who had a small fleet of hayter 48/56 roller mowers being used out of trailers and was having endless problems with them around premature drive failures. Went on for a couple of years. When he swapped back to vans only, the issues went away.
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