[Steam-engine] Hauling trailer preference

[Mark]

Jeff,

What is legal height there?
Also, I assume by low boy you mean something like a detach where you are 
very close to the ground?

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JEFF LUND" <lundmachineworks at yahoo.com>
To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Hauling trailer preference


> Mark,   We alway use a low-boy.  With canopy we are
> just barely legal height on the trailor.  We have a
> large Minneapolis which is hard to pull on level
> ground.  I always steam on, and when possible
> steam-off.  I have to have at least  60lbs to hold it
> safely as we come off the trailor.  We use rubber
> dairy mats to keep the engine from sliding on the
> trailor, and from damagine the deck.
>
> Jeff Lund
> Lund Machine Works
>
>
>
> --- Mark <mark at ironacres.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, here's a question for the list. For those of you
>> who drive your own rig
>> and haul your own engine, what type of trailer do
>> you prefer? For reference,
>> I'm talking about semi-trailers here. The two
>> options I can see are a lowboy
>> detach (about 18" off the ground) or a deck over
>> lowboy (about 36" off the
>> ground). I think the detach would be nice in terms
>> of having the engine low
>> to the ground. But my experience is loading a lowboy
>> detach with a cold
>> steam engine is not the smoothest process. A regular
>> lowboy puts the engine
>> higher but is easier to load since you can back
>> right up and just winch it
>> on.
>>
>> Comments, thoughts, know of a reasonably priced
>> (hobby price) trailer for
>> sale?
>>
>> Mark
>>
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