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 Yellowbug65
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| posted on February 27th, 2014 at 10:52 PM |
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Car trailer
Hi , anyone on Brisbane northside have a car trailer I can beg borrow or steal for a price to pickup my bug body on the weekend
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| posted on February 28th, 2014 at 06:54 AM |
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Matilda garage at strathpine. Good rates & plenty of them. Cheers
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| posted on February 28th, 2014 at 02:22 PM |
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try coates hire we hires one last weekend all weekend picked up fri arvo and dropped off mon morning for $150
http://www.coateshire.com.au/branch-finder
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 06:26 AM |
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yes prolly best to hire such a thing
from my experience with my tandem basically lending out is a no no
they usually come back bent n damaged as ppl don't realise how big a car trailer is
then you are left to fix their fook up
I don't lend out my trailers usually unless I know the mate well and know they can drive with a trailer
harsh you may say but when these thing can cost over 4k lending out to a stranger basically not going to happen
$150 is cheap or do a deal with a towie driver.. cash is king 
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 08:14 AM |
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Hey Rose, did the Coates hire trailer come with tie-down straps etc? the hire place at taree (not coates) only hire the bare trailer?
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 09:05 AM |
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A friend of mine borrowed my tandem trailer, and blew all the lights....his truck was 24v. He made good the damage, though.
Now all the lights are LEDs, and cope with any voltage.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 10:50 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by HappyDaze
A friend of mine borrowed my tandem trailer, and blew all the lights....
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I have seen Bloke's do a lot of strange things with trailers.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 11:11 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Special Air Service
Hey Rose, did the Coates hire trailer come with tie-down straps etc? the hire place at taree (not coates) only hire the bare trailer?
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no straps, but good ones are only $18 a pair at bunnings
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 11:16 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by HappyDaze
A friend of mine borrowed my tandem trailer, and blew all the lights....
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I have seen Bloke's do a lot of strange things with trailers.
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Hope you're not being coarse again, Gary.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 11:21 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by h
yes prolly best to hire such a thing
from my experience with my tandem basically lending out is a no no
they usually come back bent n damaged as ppl don't realise how big a car trailer is
then you are left to fix their fook up
I don't lend out my trailers usually unless I know the mate well and know they can drive with a trailer
harsh you may say but when these thing can cost over 4k lending out to a stranger basically not going to happen
$150 is cheap or do a deal with a towie driver.. cash is king
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there speaks someone who knows from experience I would say??
whats wrong with uhaul?
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 12:34 PM |
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uhaul is $125 for 24hrs. did this recently to pick up a car in stanthorpe.
I'm looking forward to building my own VW specific tralier. Car trailers are so oversized for a beetle its not funny.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 01:06 PM |
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Hope you're not being ( )coarse again, Gary.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 06:06 PM |
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Yeah, the hire trailers are bloody big and heavy because of all the reasons h said. I did a short stint at a hire place... their trailer weighed just
under 1 tonne! Most people who hired it would have towed illegally overweight when they put a car on.
If it is just a body you could be better getting a removalist truck on hourly hire. $35hr from europcar. You could even put it on the back of a flat
tray ute with some overhang. If you're adventurous you could do what I did with a floorpan. Buy a couple of lengths of solid timber. Tie them or u
bolt them across a box trailer, then tie the body down to the timber. If you can do it in under 2 hours bunnings will even give you the trailer for
nothing to get your timber home
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 06:18 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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If you can do it in under 2 hours bunnings will even give you the trailer for nothing to get your timber home
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yep, have borrowed the bunnings trailer before, bought something from bunnings then went & got a load if top soil & then a load of road base
from the local landscape supplier (he just shook his head at me) ....back in 2 hours all good.
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| posted on March 1st, 2014 at 11:27 PM |
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Hey , thanks everyone for the replys , got a small truck and it slid straight in the back easy as , no probs
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| posted on March 2nd, 2014 at 12:03 AM |
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| posted on March 4th, 2014 at 12:39 PM |
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I thought about buying a car trailer but want less weight. As long as its wide enough and long enough to carry a kombi thats all I'd want. It can
overhang at the back and front a little (I'd do one with no high lips front and rear so it would sit further forward).
The regular towing guy I use charges $60 for a local tow, about $90+ from the other side of town, he just has a trailer behind a falcon.
Not sure how exxy it would be to have one built, probably more than a ready made one. I don't have the welding ability to make one. Would love a
dolly type that just supports the front wheels and the back rolls but apparently only registered cars can be towed on a dolly trailer.
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