Go to the manufacturers to ask the weight of the float and check things like the flooring, which can be made of a honeycomb material to keep the weight down and that has been known to fail. Take someone who knows about floats to check out a prospective purchase and if you can, get them to go over it. By far the safest braking option is electric brakes, which most floats have these days.
The biggest issues I see with floats that come to me are wheel bearings, axles, and springs. If the float is used regularly, a yearly service is the best way to avoid problems.
Find someone that is willing to have a good look at it and remember there is a minimum of a month guarantee according to consumer protection regulations.
The maximum allowable total mass of a laden vehicle as specified by the manufacturer. This includes all occupants, fuel, load, and any add on accessories. The mass of the trailer at manufacture, empty and unhitched. The total mass of the laden trailer when it is unhitched.
The mass transmitted to the ground by the axles of the laden trailer when hitched to a tow vehicle. The total mass of the tow vehicle and trailer, both fully laden.
The mass placed on the tow ball by a laden trailer. Update your browser to view this website correctly. Sometimes, manufacturers might specify tow coupling positions required to meet the towing maximums.
The limits given assume that the brakes of the vehicle and the trailer - where fitted - are in good working order. It is important to remember that even if you meet the load requirements of your vehicle manufacturer, you are still required to be able to stop from 30kmh within 7m. Your float's lighting is looked at during its warrant of fitness, so we won't go into detail here. However, it is important that you understand the situation with towballs.
If you have a problem, your warrant garage should already have brought it to your attention, and resolved it.
However, it always pays to check. Drivers need to be very careful to use matching couplings, as there is a risk they can come apart if they do not match. Some couplings are designed to deal with both ball sizes. Really, you should not, for safety's sake, mix and match these couplings under any circumstances. Your ball and coupling should be marked clearly. If you're in any doubt, get your garage to check it out.
In terms of overall dimensions for your float, some of these can only be checked when your float is attached to your towing vehicle. Hook it up and check it against this diagram from the Land Transport Safety Authority. It is also important that you can complete a degree turn within a 25m circle. While doing this, no part of the float or vehicle may touch, apart from the coupling. The changes have been well publicised in the media with the intention of making it clearer what is required of motorists at pedestrian crossings, special vehicle lanes such as cycle and bus lanes and roundabouts particularly multi-lane roundabouts.
All drivers towing other vehicles must ensure the brake connection between vehicles are correctly connected so that the brakes of towing and towed vehicles operate as intended. The real cost of running a horse truck Towing a horsefloat - have you got it right? What's the best second-hand vehicle for towing a horse float? Sometimes depending on the horses, length and body, we have known a Why do you have a chestbar in your angles The beauty of our system is that horses can be secured back against the side wall, with their chests and bodies held, and their heads able to lower and relax.
Compare this to the normal angle, where the bays are too small to start with, but still in a braking situation, the horse scrambles forward trying in vain to stop itself crashing into the side wall, sometimes ending up on its rump on the floor or in some documented cases where front teeth were knocked out refer to media releases for more info on the angleload chestbar system and how it has revolutionized the angleloaded traveler.
What makes a scrambler and what does it do? Nobody has any real idea about why a horse starts scrambling. Some say it could be initially a middle ear infection, or it becomes claustaphobic, gets bitten by something causing panic, and loads of other reasons. Scramblers can show signs from very little to major catastrophic incidences. A constant kicker, to load shifter, to pawing, sweating profusely, to scrapping the side wall with their hooves, to falling over, loosing footing straight or around a corner, to going right up the side wall and falling right over into the other bay.
No matter what a horse does, it is very scary for the horse and owner, and never appears to get any better unless a complete change of the way the horse is travelled is done. The side wall in the float will show you the evidence of whether your horse scrambles. How do you measure your angle bays Unlike a lot of manufacturers we measure where the horse actually stands, tip of the nose to crack of the bum.
If we were to do what others do to get a sale, our bays would be 3. Our 3 horse deluxe with a small extension and an overall length of 5 mtrs weighs 1. If you had a 4 horse well built float it would have to be in the region of 2 ton with a maximum of still the 3.
Not many horses x 4 or gear would only weigh 1. Why do you use hardwood planks Hardwood or iron bark has been used in stock trailers and trucks centuries, and the Queenslander is built using this timber. We think if its strong enough to withstand the harsh QLD weather, then it will be fantastic in a horsefloat!
It gets harder as it ages, and urine and manure do not effect it. We leave a 5mm gap between our boards to release the moisture coming from above and below. Compare this with ply, whatever the name or rating number it has, timber glued together, will never withstand livestock on it for 20 years, sometimes not even as long as the warranty of the float it is in!!!
Why do you use gas rams on your tailboards Gas rams make even the heaviest tailboard, child and woman friendly. Aare easy to replace when needed, are inexpensive, and are much more pleasing to the eye than the old spring. Why is your tail-gate hot dipped galvanized We began hot dipping all our tail-boards 12 months ago, due to the fact when floats came back in for servicing, the tailboard was always badly chipped, paint off in big pieces, and the appearance was tacky and down graded an expensive investment.
Even with barefoot horses this still occurred due to it being a well worn, high traffic and in some cases downright stubborn to get on area. We did not like the way they looked or the fact without quick touch up, the steel would begin to rust. Thus the hot dipped tail-board and it will probably outlast the float itself!!
Why do you rust proof We live on a very big island, with most of the population being close to the sea. The chassis and under all components like side padding and stoneguard are protected with industrial strength rust proofing as these areas always hold moisture and begin to rust first.
If we can do a simple thing like this to ensure your investment lasts the longest it possibly can, then how does that rate our quality and attention to detail in regards to the rest of the float? Why have you got stainless strike plates everywhere Like with rust proofing, we care about your investment and want it to last. Putting strike plates on all high wear areas like door edges, and tailboards will stop the paint chipping off and exposing it to rust.
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