Equipment Trailer Improvements

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I have been unsuccessfully looking for several days for ideas of how to improve my gooseneck equipment trailer.  Could you share pictures and ideas of how you have made your equipment trailer better than the way you got it?  Things like winches, lights, ramp stabilizers, chain racks, etc.Thank you for the ideas,Doug
Reply:A bit of a vague question.  Tell us what u use it for and want to do with it then u will probably get better replies.  Or ask a specific question like How to make a chain rack on a gooseneck trailer and post up pic of the trailer in question.Tiger Sales:  AHP Distributor    www.tigersalesco.comAHP200x; AHP 160ST; MM350P,  Spoolmatic 30A; Everlast PowerTig 185; Thermal Dynamics 60i plasma.  For Sale:  Cobra Mig 250 w/ Push-pull gun.  Lincoln Wirematic 250
Reply:Why don't you post up a few pics of your trailer and list a few goals to better help us understand the direction you are trying to take the project.I break things for a living...
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Reply:My trailer is nothing but a 25' flatbed gooseneck trailer.  I'm just looking for things that people have done to their trailers.  I'm not looking for anything specific.Thanks, Landman.  Those are the kind of things I'm looking for.  Simply great ways to improve my trailer.
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Reply:Holy Crap! 17 pages of "ideas" fighting through adds in all the pictures. but I managed to get through it. A lot of the set ups were just plane scary. but some were pretty good. Like the guy who built tiedown inserts to go into his stake pockets. but I gotta say the guy who hooked his break away chains to his bumber instead of the hitch. Really? COME ON!There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:Makes ya kinda wonder what your following.....i did like the stake pocket tiedowns...
Reply:Originally Posted by a1998z3Makes ya kinda wonder what your following.....i did like the stake pocket tiedowns...
Reply:Hopefully in front of it and going up a hill.
Reply:by in front of it, I was refering to heading the oposite direction.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:OK....roger. You are correct.
Reply:No pictures. I have a winch on the front of mine. I use it alot more than I ever thought I would when I installed it.
Reply:. Originally Posted by ThorsHammerHoly Crap! 17 pages of "ideas" fighting through adds in all the pictures. but I managed to get through it. A lot of the set ups were just plane scary. but some were pretty good. Like the guy who built tiedown inserts to go into his stake pockets. but I gotta say the guy who hooked his break away chains to his bumber instead of the hitch. Really? COME ON!
Reply:Originally Posted by ThorsHammerHoly Crap! 17 pages of "ideas" fighting through adds in all the pictures. but I managed to get through it. A lot of the set ups were just plane scary. but some were pretty good. Like the guy who built tiedown inserts to go into his stake pockets. but I gotta say the guy who hooked his break away chains to his bumber instead of the hitch. Really? COME ON!
Reply:Heres some stuff I like on an equipment trailer. (wish list)toolbox for binder cheater bar, hyd jack, lug wrench, chains, binders and straps etc.D ring tie downsstake pockets for attaching sides to trailerratchet strap wincheswinch toolboxes under deck on sidesfork attachment carrier under deckstabilizer jacks at end of trailer below ramp attachmentside marker  lights, backup lights, preferably led, conspicuity tapelocking spare tire mountgreasable bearing capschain "key holes in" deck if steeldeck on top of goose neckfuel tank for equipment"The reason we are here is that we are not all there"SA 200Idealarc TM 300 300MM 200MM 25130a SpoolgunPrecision Tig 375Invertec V350 ProSC-32 CS 12 Wire FeederOxweld/Purox O/AArcAirHypertherm Powermax 85LN25
Reply:Originally Posted by hillbillyfabNo pictures. I have a winch on the front of mine. I use it alot more than I ever thought I would when I installed it.
Reply:An upright warn 8274 is the best electric winch u can put on a trailer as the free spool speed is about 3 to 4 times faster than any planatary winch.   I have one on my trailer. Also add a wireless remote so u can run it from anywhere near the trailer...   otherwise go with one of the Harbor Freight winches.   The 12K lb can be had underf $300 when they are on sale.   How bout a swing out loading crane off the top of the 5th wheel assembly?Tiger Sales:  AHP Distributor    www.tigersalesco.comAHP200x; AHP 160ST; MM350P,  Spoolmatic 30A; Everlast PowerTig 185; Thermal Dynamics 60i plasma.  For Sale:  Cobra Mig 250 w/ Push-pull gun.  Lincoln Wirematic 250