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Subject Topic: Freddie killed by an unsafe trailer
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Personlisterdiesel
29/11/2016 at 12:29pm
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Quote: If your stating 85% then i agree
But you can tow full 3500kg in low ratio quite safely.
And only in low ratio as in normal drive / gearing you cannot control the braking of 3500kg.

With hydrolic braking system fitted to the land rover or any other car you can even tow more weight legally.



Pardon?

Why can't you tow 3500kg in high range???

We tow 3500kg in our Discovery all over the UK and Europe, not just rated at 3500kg, it actually runs at the full weight, and it's fine.

With power braking, be it hydraulic or air, you can increase the TRAILER gross weight above 3500kg but not the towing vehicle's weights. That went out with the Series 3 Landies by memory.

Our trailer is tri-axle with full braking on all axles. We are currently building another, but v4-wheel this time and it will be put through IVA before it goes on the road.

Nobody should be on the road with faulty equipment, commercially or privately.

Peter


PersonRay Clayton
29/11/2016 at 4:59pm
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Peter
I meant over 3500kg
And the 110 could tow above 3500 if on hydrolic brakes and also only in low ratio for saftey reasons.
It could easy tow above in high ratio but not safe to do it in my opinion.

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Cheers
Ray

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Quote: Originally posted by Opensauce on 27/11/2016
Seeing the hitch does make things a bit clearer. It looks as if handbrake lever is designed to park on top of hitch handle. Perhaps lever was parked with hitch handle on top of it. It is not a design that anybody used to the usual caravan or trailer hitch might be familiar with.


It looks like an over centre type of handbrake rather than a ratchet type. Either way it would not be designed to sit on the hitch handle, simply because as you placed it into the off position it would trap your hand. I would say that it is either bent and should position along side the drawbar or more likely the trailer, which looks like a commercial or plant type, would have had a ring eye fitting for a jaw type drawbar and it has been swapped for the more common 50mm ball type. The ring eye would allow space above for the handbrake as it does not have the handle to lift to latch onto the 50mm ball. As someone else pointed out, there doesn't seem to be a provision for a breakaway cable, although every cable I have seen snapped,usually from people in a hurry unhitching, they break before they can apply enough force to put the handbrake on anyway.



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