MegaHitch,
protect your trailer investment. Don't let your trailer
end up in another state re-titled as a homemade trailer
and sold by a thief. Fits most bumper pull trailer
couplers. See why it's better that anything you've seen
yet.
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Gooseneck
ball hitches, short bed hitches, 5th wheel conversions,
the list goes on
Gooseneck
Easy Coupler is
the new deal you'll want to check out. Do you know if
your gooseneck coupler is latched? Rough roads,
Interstates shake things loose
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Tilt-Tie,
the Highline for your Horse Trailer.
Spring loaded Tilt-Tie swings out from your
trailer wall. Seven ft. off the ground
like a highline, but you don't have to look for
trees to tie to.
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Read my Weight
Distributing Hitch article. WDH
is common with RV travel trailers as they
should be will most bumper pull trailers.
This is an important subject for trailer
safety to have the best control for a
trailer that has leverage on your truck or
SUV.
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"We're
here to answer those tough horse trailer & RV trailer questions,
save you money, & review new trailers, accessories &
hauler trucks."
Visit our new forum, as we search for the
"Truth about Trailers." Andrew Lyons, for
trailer info 1-800-909-7071
Email
Horse trailer supplies.
Finally
ABS brakes for trailers !
Fast, smooth
and safer than any brake system we've tried.
We took our test trailer to the race track,
smoked the brakes, burnt the seals and
proved how dramatically superior hydraulic
disc rotors, electric-hydraulic actuators,
ABS modules and a trailer brake controller
that networks with your trucks computer can
be. Electric brake drums didn't stand a
chance in our side by side comparison. A big
step toward safer trailering on our crowded
highways and unpredictable weather patterns.
Share this detailed report about the
difference ABS trailer brakes can make.
Behind the Scenes of
MrTruck's segments for Equestrian Nation on RFD TV
If
you go to the National Western Stock show
this month, you'll see a horse trailer on
it's side. Not something you see every day.
Makes it easy to see how the floor and roof
are made. The Cimarron horse trailer is in
Transwest Truck Trailer RV's booth. That
thinking outside the box is why I go to
Transwest to shoot video for my segments.
I've been in many trailer dealerships and
factories around the country and haven't
seen a shop equipped like Transwest. If they
don't have a piece of equipment they need,
Andrew Lyons (General Manager) will build
it.
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New features with EZ-Connector;
they've always come with dummy plugs to keep the connector ends
clean and give you somewhere to store your trailer plug. Well
now the female end comes with a self-closing door instead of a
dummy plug and the storage end for the male plug has a
self-closing door. The truck end (female plug) door has an
over size O-ring to keep the connector pins clean. It also has
metal embedded in the door for the earth magnet to draw
the......
Learn more...
Express Corral,
More Room, Easy Setup System
Up in fifteen minutes, down in 10. It's a
nice kit that comes in a diamond deck plate
aluminum storage box. 6 inches wide,
will fit on running boards, fenders or put
it in your trailer or truck. You can use the
aluminum storage box on the ground to power
the electric corral. Very portable, you
could use it to selective graze, night
corral on pasture and fence off trees and
hay stacks when you're not using it with
your trailer to camp on trail rides.
You can hook several Express Corrals
together to camp with lots of horses
separate or together. The posts that come
with the kit are insulated with multiple
clip heights so you can use it with full
size horses to mini's.
More details....
PickupTrucks.com
and MrTruck.com present the 2011 HD Pickup
Truck "Hurt Locker" Towing Test. Towing at
the trucks max capacity, we travel, deserts,
mountains, extreme grades and trailer brake
test at 100 degree plus temp.
Part one,
Part two...
GMC
Sierra 3500HD Wins Best Overall HD Truck;
2011-08-15 DETROIT – The GMC Sierra 3500HD
won PickupTrucks.com’s “Heavy Duty Hurt
Locker” comparison test, a grueling showdown
among industry heavyweights that included
towing 19,400-pound fifth-wheel trailers up
and over some of the most demanding grades
in the United States.
2012 HD Upgrades announced....
Whether you are
new to horse trailers & need some extra help
or you're a veteran and want the best
trailers, you owe it to yourself to visit
Andrew Lyons and his crew of horse folks.
Buy your horse trailer & truck together or
separate and get the right advice on
matching your needs the first time.
Cimarron's New EZ Angle Hay Rack Ladder
Do you use your
hay rack? Most horse trailer rack ladders
are not easy to climb nor are they very
heavy duty. Cimarron knows how to make
ladders that don't bend or flex, one of the
best factory hay rack ladders in the
business. You can lift your bales, gas can,
bags of feed and spare tires right up the
ladder. Having the ladder pull away from the
trailer at 22 degrees makes it less work.
It's hard to climb straight up a barn style
ladder.
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Gooseneck
Easy Coupler; Do you know
if your gooseneck coupler is latched? Bulldog couplers are on
the majority of gooseneck trailers for decades. We've all used them
and cussed them when we have to pry the handle up to unlatch and
teeter-totter our belt buckles on the truck bedrail to reach in and
get them latched or at least hope we have them latched.
Folks tell me
about what they don't like about their trailers and gooseneck
couplers are a popular complaint. I hook and unhook my gooseneck
every week, in the rain, in the snow and in the dripping heat.
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Rollin’
Rollin’ Rollin’ … Keep that Trailer Rolling…’
By Stephen
Louie “Hosspuller”
One
of the worst things to happen with a horse trailer is a
mechanical break down on the road. If you have never been
there, thank your lucky stars. There are... reasons Read it now....
GanderLock, when you're
serious about Protecting
your Gooseneck Trailer and Tack
Protect your trailer
as well as your expensive saddles, bridles,
tools and flat screen TV.
Goosenecks
are different
from bumper pulls, if you just lock the
coupler, the thief's loosen the set bolts,
slide out your adjustable coupler and put
their own back in and away goes your
investment. Think about what happens when
your trailer gets stolen, arguing with
insurance companies, banks and the police.
I've been lucky not to many things stolen,
but when it happens it makes you sick.
Read
the Review...
MegaHitch, Trailer Lock, Peace
of Mind in a Box;
In this economy trailer theft is up,
you'd be surprised how fast a stolen trailer becomes a homemade
trailer and re-titled in another state. Thief's are like coyotes,
they adapt fast and look for easy targets. Don't be the easy target.
It's getting common, someone telling me their white stock trailer
was stolen while parked at a sale barn or at a fair grounds equine event.
Desperate times increases the population of desperate criminals and
trailers are an easy target.
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Auto Flex
from
www.LBCTrailers.com has a complete
pickup truck leaf spring replacement with an air
suspension. It bolts on the same place as the
factory leaf springs. Self levels, improves
ride, braking, steering and handling. Comes with
compressor, tank and dump valve and tap for
using on board air for you tires etc. Also a
complete trailer air suspension.
Towing on Extreme Grades;
Up and down steep grades are stressful on
brakes, transmissions and nerves. All new
diesel pickup trucks have grade shifting
automatic transmissions and exhaust brakes.
Grade shifting transmissions while in “tow
haul” mode will automatically downshift if
you are going down hill, when you apply the
trucks brakes. The goal is to save
your truck and trailer brakes. Diesels with
exhaust brakes...more
towing grades
2011 Heavy Duty GM's, More
Power, More Frame and More Suspension:
For 2011 GM went massive truck improvement,
as in frame, suspension, payload and towing
ability puts Chevy and GMC HD trucks at the
top of their segment. It's improvements we
all want and of course the power and fuel
mileage have also improved. The new
suspension keeps the power under control and
tires planted on the pavement. The new
exhaust brake adds stopping power to grade
shifting from the Allison tranny and
larger brake rotors this year. Read
the review....
Transwest Opens New
Store in Kansas City! Kansas City, MO is the new home of
Transwest Trailers second location. Opening their doors in
August 2009, they offer parts, service and cater to all your
horse trailer & hauler needs with 160 trailers to choose from.
Standing out from
the crowd to maintain product quality and customer service is
what has made this company successful for the last 30 years. Transwest
only carry a premium line of products: Cimarron, Logan Coach,
Outlaw Conversions & Summit Haulers. More...
The
New Logan Coach; an
efficient leaner Logan sticks to what they do best, galvanized
steel frames, aluminum skin and good looking value. Call it the
resale value trailer. Bottom line, "beauty of aluminum and
strength of steel." One of the few composite trailer brands
that can go head to head with high end aluminum trailers for
longevity.
Always
improving and keeping it's roots with galvanized Flo-Coat steel
frame coated with Vortex, more..
Cimarron
Premium Trailer Review, 10 Years to the Top
Even in the current recession, Cimarron Trailers is improving,
expanding and zeroing in on efficiency. The factory is
staying the same size, but putting out 25% more
trailers. There is a handful of aluminum trailer
manufactures at the top in premium trailers. None
surpasses Cimarron current models. The top trailers need
smart engineering, custom doors and windows, top
components, strong beautiful welds etc. The result is
quality uniformity on all trailers from roof to axles.
Where else would you build horse trailers, but the heart
of
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Hybrid Air/Torsion Axle with 8 inches of travel,
almost 3 inches of
drop for lowering the trailer to load. It's a soft ride
that will keep your horses fresh when you arrive at your
next event.
The price will surprise you.The whole story....
Trailer Electronic Technology for Safer, Easier Connection.
EZ
is a magnetic connection, powerful magnets. Just get the male end near
the female plug and "pop" it sucks together. A tab slot align the socket
and plug to match the right connections. The male end has two silicone
o-rings, the cables have sealant injected inside, all to make the system
water proof. If you can keep the water out, you can keep the mud and all
the corrosive chemicals used to dissolve ice on the highway out. Spent my share of nights with a flashlight in
my mouth in the rain as I work on trailer lights.
See the review....
Melissa's Horse Sense
(Melissa
Brawner)
Horse Blankets
“Oh mom, it is just
awful! Those poor horses are just standing out there in the all of that
snow. They are probably freezing! Can we put coats on them like the
horses in the barn? Please?” The kindhearted requests came frequently
from our foster kids. Most of these youngsters have never been on a
farm and do not know much about farm life, but it warms my heart to hear
their requests. It opens doors for discussion and learning, and best of
all, the animals can crack through the shell that develops around
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Buying and Selling Horses at
Auction.
I walked up to the stall, circling More.....
Preparing
for Foaling. Many of the
horse industries have their mares foaling as
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Finding
a Good Farrier
By
Melissa
Brawner;Finding a good farrier
can ..
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Introducing
our horse editor, Melissa Brawner. Enjoy her educational
articles sharing her experience raising horses in Colorado. The first
article is about "Starting Foals." "Beginning basic
training sounds a bit extreme with a foal, but it is...
The foal learns
to.....
Eureka!Saddlematic
™
Revolutionary
Motorized Saddle Rack.
Finally you can stop wrestling your saddles in
and out of your trailer and lifting them over your head. Saddlematic will
bring your saddles to you. New electric model and a
swingout for your rear tack. See the whole story and how they work.
Click here...
Specials on Ford F650
Conversions, Cat and Cummins Diesels in Red, White and Black.
Call
1-800-909-7071
New Truck Repair Technology
comes to Horse Trailers
If you follow
my articles, you know how big a fan of new technology I am. At the new
Transwest Truck Trailer RV facility, is an
awesome machine called a Road Simulator. Looks kind of like a dyno, but
does use rollers to test brakes rolling resistance and balance. Transwest uses it to test all their new horse trailers so
they are ready for your roads. It can find
just a torn axle seal leaking on the brakes. It would surprise you how
many "new axles" on new trailers are over greased, limiting your trailer
brakes ability. With the kind of traffic we
pull trailers in, testing brakes becomes routine. And worn suspension
maybe be causing your rig to ....More....
As the
popularity of Living Quarters in Horse Trailers grows, they become more
like RV's, and 5th wheel RV's are converting to more gooseneck type
hitches.
Now
there's help for the short-short beds
towing horse trailers and racecar trailers. New from PopUp, the
SB116. The long short bed solution. It's "16" inches
of extension. Before you loose your pickup trucks rear window or
worse, check out the solution. Shortbed trucks are the most
popular. But the trailer manufactures don't know it yet. Finally
backup with the tailgate down and without hitting the propane
tanks.
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Transwest Truck Trailer RV,
Visit our new facility on I-25. Large selection of LQ horse
trailers, Haulers and Toterhomes. Super, full service shop, for trucks,
trailers and RV's. 15 paved acres of trailers & trucks.
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New
Hart, Cimarron, Logan Coach horse trailers. Large selection of Living
Quarter's. Large
selection of hauler trucks, Freightliner M2, Ford F650, C4500 & bigger.
Call for prices,
1-800-909-7071
Top Horse/RV Trailer, Truck &
Accessory Reviews and News
Stop
tire cupping, vibration and
premature wear on those expensive
truck, RV & trailer tires.
Centramatic
automatic wheel
balancers have been saving money on
tires for semi-trucks for over
twenty years. Now you can
automatically balance your tires,
wheels, hub and rotors or drums
while you drive. A balanced tire
doesn't cub, vibrates less & lowers
the tire sidewall temperature from
less flexing, giving you longer tire
life. 5 year warranty, made in the
USA.
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NEW and Improved
You're going to love this newly redesigned
PopUp 2 Hitch.
Smoother acting and
trouble free. They've made the best hitch even better.
One pull of the handle to
raise the ball is all it will take to convince you that this is the
hitch you want. Simply pull the rod to raise the ball and push
to lower it from the wheelwell of
your truck. More
info....
Battery
Maintenance and Pulse Technology Conditioning with Solar can
Double your Battery Life. Batteries
keep us rolling and give us conveniences in our trucks and
trailers. But if you don’t maintain them, you’ll be stranded and
surprised. I run a lot of toys from my eight 12 volt outlets in
my truck, from my cooler to my motion detector in the trailer.
Diesel trucks use two 12 volt batteries for extra power to start
a diesel engine. Living Quarter horse trailers usually have two
deep cell batteries that can be drawn down and last a long time.
With 4 batteries between your truck and trailer, proper
maintenance is important. There's new technology that can do
most of the work for you. Sulfation is the
largest cause of battery deterioration.
SolarPulse
Industrial Solar Charging System is a product that reenergizes
the sulfates and charges your batteries with sunshine,
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It’s
official, Dave Smerchek, owner of Titan Trailer
Manufacturing headquartered in Waterville, Kansas,
purchased Logan Coach April 8, 2009. Plans are to
continue producing the Logan Coach brand trailers in the
same town they originated in, Logan, Utah, as a division
of Titan Trailer Manufacturing, Inc.
This
union will allow Titan to expand to the West and Logan
Coach to expand to the East with an economic advantage
in volume and transportation costs. Logan Coach is
keeping their current dealer support team for a seamless
transition to new ownership.
Press
Release....
Michael
Terry Receives Distinguished Outstanding
Member Award: (March 1,
2011 - Topeka, KS) The National Association
of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) presented
Michael Terry, Cimarron Trailers, Chickasha,
Okla., with the NATM Outstanding Member
Award Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at the Awards
Luncheon during the NATM 23rd Annual
Convention and Trade Show in Albuquerque,
N.M. The Outstanding Member Award is
presented each year to an individual who has
made significant contributions to the
trailer manufacturing industry.
Terry has
been active in NATM since its inception in
1987. He was one of the eight trailer
manufacturers at the first meeting in
Chickasha, Okla., Sept. 22, 1987. Terry was
elected as one of the founding members of
NALTM (National Association of Livestock
Trailer Manufacturers) and was immediately
elected as the first....
Read the release...
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is an ideal electrical
connection for your trailer.
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