Sunday, Oct 23, 2016 at 17:37
Preferred construction would be the drawbar material continues to the back of the trailer, i.e
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Some of the trailers that I used in the Armed Forces had draw bars like that. They were single tubes around 100 in diameter and about 5 mm thick.
I can also remember seeing many all wood trailers years ago. They usually had a single length of wood running from the coupling straight back to the rear end of the trailer. I can't remember seeing a broken one.
Tow trucks were the same. They carried two long lengths of hardwood. You slid them under a car and hooked up the rear ends to the axle housing with chains then lifted the front end of them.
The draw bar on my little trailer is 75 x 50 x 3. The two tubes run back past the front spring eye and are welded to the side rails just in front of the axle.
The front eye of the spring is positioned
well below the height of the rear shackles in order to create a bit of roll understeer into the supension in corners.
The axle is 600 mm from the rear of the box while most of the heavy items like
camp overs etc are above or behind it.
The spare wheel hangs under the box just in front of the axle. The ball weight will be no more than 40 kg.
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