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Subject Topic: Which jockey wheel? Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonStillnowiser
11/8/2018 at 7:58am
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Advice please.
Since increasing the payload of our trailer by swapping it's 500 kg Indespension suspension axles for 750 kg units I need to fit a jockey wheel.
I have looked around on the web and there are a lot of options.
ebay and Amazon are unreliable in their recommendations.
I quite fancied a Maypole but they get a lot of bad reviews. Has anyone got opinions on Kartt jockey wheels? This is a heavy trailer and a lot of manoeuvring is done on grass. Do we need a pneumatic or foam filled tyre?

I need your experience. Have you been there? What worked for you? Is there a premium brand?

Our next venture is in three weeks.   Help asap please.


PersonThe 2 Tops
12/8/2018 at 12:44pm
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I would think a pneumatic wheel would be the best. It is less likely to dig in on soft ground than a solid rubber one.
Haven't come across a foam-filled tyre, so cannot comment, except to say it would probably still be better than a solid rubber tyre.
Bertie.

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PersonDanvan
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Hello Stillnowiser,

my reply to your post depends on if you have used a jockey wheeled trailer before please?

Dan.


PersonKelper
13/8/2018 at 10:03pm
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Inflatable one .... best all round option ... IMHO


PersonStillnowiser
13/8/2018 at 11:16pm
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Hi Danvan

No never used one. Never needed to. Changes to trailer weight (and my advancing years, and alright glass back) mean I am looking for all the help I can get.
But I do need to move it on grass.


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Personpepe63
14/8/2018 at 11:32am
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Up until recently, I would said pneumatic without question, however(and I know they are different items)having recently replaced all of the tyres and tubes on my HD sack truck and 2-wheeled wheelbarrow(thinking that'd see 'em good for a few years)only for 3 of them not to hold air for more than a couple of days,no matter how much I've fettled with the valves/tubes, I'm now not so sure...
(and they weren't especially "cheapie" ones..)

The jockey wheel on my brother's caravan is solid, but is pretty wide (similar-ish to a golf trolley)and that doesn't appear to dig in when being man-handled...

Do you really need a wheel?(as it may add to the drag?),could you not make do with just a prop/leg?


Personrustyfrog
14/8/2018 at 9:47pm
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Hope the OP wont mind me hi jacking his thread, but I dont think my question requires a fresh heading.

I have a van with the standard Al Ko hitch and jockey wheel.
The wheel is the original very unforgiving hard solid type, and I would like to sway for a pneumatic or puncture proof soft type.
Is there one of the same diameter etc. that would be a straight swop?

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