Advantages: Lightweight, easy to tow, retain value, smart. Disadvantages: No handle on inside of jocky door.
After afew years of having horses and paying for transport I decided to buy a trailer after careful consideration. I had never towed before and did not have a vehicle suitable for towing. It was not a decision taken lightly. I had considered buying a lorry but contemplated that the costs would be considerably higher to sustain another roadworhty vehicle in comparison with higher daily fuel costs to run a 4 x 4. (correct me if I am wrong). I bought a suitable towing vehicle and an IforWilliams 505 which was about 5 years old. This cost me £2500 (I have had it nearly 2 years) from a reputable dealer and had full service history. It may cost more from dealers but at the time it was the best option for me as I didn`t really know what I needed to check from a safety angle. Also looking at the advertisments at the time, there were not ...
I bought a new Iforwilliams p8e livestock trailer (Oct 2008) and on collection I discovered that it had no hitch lock. They did provide a free key ring - pity there were no keys included.
I wrote to IforWilliams and they eventually sent a very poor excuse for a lock which actually does not fit the hitch. It looks to me like they never thought about providing a hitch with a built in lock? A bit suprising as they know just like everyone else how vunerable they are to being stolen. They lock they sent me is like something out of a Christmas cracker and should stick out of the side of the hitch with nothing much sticking in to lock it. Consiquently it could be struck off easily by half a house brick or anything else lying around.
How can I take the trailer out and park it up with a reasonable degree of confidence that it wont be ...
Advantages: turn up in style! Disadvantages: check it's been made properly!!!
We bought a brand new IforWilliams Hunter trailer to carry my two large competition horses and thought i had made a really good investment! My 17.2 fitted in lovelly and it towed to its first competition a dream.
When we got there, it turned out to be a nighmare!
On parking up and jumping in through the jockey door, I was horrified to be greeted by a stream of blood running like a river to the front of the trailer and see my young mare standing trapped against the side as the partition has slid across and wedged her just below her fetlocks. It was amazing that she had not freaked out and made matters worse. On summoning some help we managed to lift the partition back off of her and replace it and lead her out to seek vetinary attention.
12 stiches later (and a nice sized vets bill) we were ready to roll, but how was I going to get ...
