Bought this today - Pic heavy AKA The Trailer

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Post by metelmickey » Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:59 pm

my next door neighber has one on his discovery and tows a 3 horse horse box on it and has no trubles.
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Post by CHR15E » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:22 pm

With it lowering or raising the towball?
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Post by metelmickey » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:48 pm

it was lowering, the car sits quite high compared to the horse box.
but it should work either way around.
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Bought this today - Pic heavy AKA The Trailer

Post by thamestyres » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:56 pm

i used to have a three position plate to raise up the tow hitch when i had my sd1, that was lowered, so i raised it up and i towed a box trailer up to scotland fully loaded (to the roof) they work ok as long as they are thick plate, and towed countless cars, it was a proper work horse as well as a fun car.. regards ricky
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Post by pauleilio » Sat May 18, 2013 11:04 pm

Very impressive. Best trailer I've seen and you don't need a trailer board. Nice work!

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Post by CHR15E » Wed May 22, 2013 4:26 pm

Thanks, haven't used it much for a while unfortunately.

Been busy with life. :roll:
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Post by BlueRover » Wed May 22, 2013 9:58 pm

Chris, nice to see you're still about. I doubt there's much point of an 800 trailer on an 850 Volvo. I'm surprised you haven't started on a suitable trailer for the new loves of your life.
I see Brad has bought another 800, well, it was a bit obvious he couldn't stay away for long.

Take care of yourself.

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Post by CHR15E » Thu May 23, 2013 5:18 pm

I pop in time to time. :D

It's nothing to do with the trailer, just life is very busy at the minute. I haven't been camping since last August. :roll:

I have thought about a trailer, maybe one day.

Car wise I don't see buying another 800. I don't miss the cars themselves, though I do miss knowing them inside out.
V70s haven't replaced them exactly. I bought a few last year and got a newer for my dad, but with things as they've gone I've had that and kept the V70R I had.

Everything else has gone! Haven't had only 2 cars for quite sometime. :lol:
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Post by CHR15E » Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:38 am

Sadly due to the bad winds we had in November the trailer has been quite badly damaged.

An old unused aerial's pole snapped during the night and broke through the roof and smashed a roof tile which part of hit the roof of the trailer.

I know that doesn't sound much but it's made a nasty dent and cracked the filler from where we plated the sunroof. A lot of work to sort it out.

Here's a short video of the slate falling. Excuse the quality as it's a screener of my CCTV using my phone plus all the compression on photobucket.

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We did have a little fun pulling the aerial down after. Coax is pretty strong it seems and doing it by hand didn't work so we used a car.

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I now have to decide if it's worth the time and effort to put it right?
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Post by SJG » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:04 am

That is a shame Chris, especially after all the time, money and effort you spent on it
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Post by CHR15E » Wed Dec 30, 2015 12:24 pm

Very much so, I need to have a chat with my brother and see what he thinks as bodywork is not my thing. Plus it will need a full paint afterwards.

Have to catch him when he's in a good mood. :)
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Post by BlueRover » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:12 pm

The drive looks really empty.... :(
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Post by CHR15E » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:21 pm

Yep, times have changed.

Still have 4 cars between us and 4 trailers. Luckily my brother had the 406 at the time or my Mondeo would have been hit too.
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Post by Slamm » Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:34 pm

That's a pain, your last half of an 800 as well.

Not quite as bad as my mates car when all the snow came off a neighbours roof, was only a Ford Cougar though so made about £500 of improvements :lol:

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Post by CHR15E » Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:13 pm

Ooops, not good. You hear of it happening but never think it will happen to you I guess?

I don't want to scrap it really but I need my brother to look at it and work out what's next.
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