Looking for good ideas.....

[matt_aggie04]

DAS NICE!!!!!!    I still want a stock trailer and if I can sell the regular 20' GN trailer I have and pocket a little money I will prolly buy one.  I could leave my mule in it and just back up to it load dogs and go.  I like to think that I may own a mule (4 legged) one day and the stock trailer would allow me to haul that as well.  But if I can't sell my trailer for enough money I may build a little trailer that I can take with me and still haul hogs out with.  Hopefully I can sell the trailer I got now and avoid having to build a small trailer but time will tell.  

Matt

[longshot]

Brute,
How is it backing the wheeler and getter off the trailer?   That is my only concern there but that is HECK of an idea!!
Longshot

[Circle C]

Matt,

   Here are a couple trailers we use when hunting.  The first is a half top that might work well with your mule depending on how tall it is. BTW that picture is about 1 mile from where we hunted yesterday. Looks like a different part of the state though. East Texas piney woods, vs rolling hills with hardwoods. Seriously 1 mile apart.



This is the stock trailer that Mandi and I use the most. It is a 24x6 with two cut gates and a 4x5 escape in front. holds an easy 8 dogs chained in front. plenty of hogs in the middle, and 3 horses saddled in the rear. Or as a side job it will haul 12 head of heavy bred brangus PACKED in there.




Brute, I too like your trailer setup. I had a hitch put on the rear of my new trailer just for the purpose of hauling a little trailer like that in tandem. 

[matt_aggie04]

Nice trailers there Chris, I like the half top alot, was it a 20' trailer?  I need to find a good used trailer, if you run across one let me know  
That country changes so much in a short distance, even where we were yesterday it changed pretty drastically from oak to pine in a some areas.
Matt

[Circle C]

The white trailer is a 20' the red is a 24'

If I was buying another trailer today I would buy a 28' x 6'8" triple with 3 gates, 1x3 tube sides, and metal top. with 4x5 escape.    However the 24' has served us well for several years.  With the 20' Hanover that I had, I always needed an extra  cut gate, and that extra 4'


You will find that most 20' stock trailers are going to be setup with 12' front and 8' rear. Which will be an issue with your Mule, as I think you stated before that it is 10' long.   You can get the cut gate moved to a 10/10 or an 8/12 as opposed to the common 12/8.  Or just get a 24 with 6/6/12 .

If you like the half top trailer, you will be more likely to find a deal on one out west near your deer lease. They are not that common in this area. But they are real handy when it comes to loading cattle out of a pasture.  You can also drag your hogs to the trailer horseback, then toss the rope over the top ball, and drag the hogs into the trailer.

[BRUTE]

Brute,
How is it backing the wheeler and getter off the trailer?   That is my only concern there but that is HECK of an idea!!
Longshot

I used the regual ramps and it was not bad at all. If I would have had a ramp built on the trailer it would have been even easier. I also use to pull an old single axle cattle trailer (1 momma cow type) behind the atv for getting hogs out of traps. It also fit behind the atv on the trailer.

Matt:  I thought about chopping the top off of the dog wagon I got and building a hog wagon. But by the time I cut all that off then build off it new I could darn near build the new trailer. Plus it seems like such a waist... I probably only use it 5 or 6 times a year but it is really handy those five or six times.

[BRUTE]

If any one is looking at stock trailers check out Fair West. Those are pobably the most solid built of any on the market and are reasonable priced. Definatley worth the money for what you are getting.

[Russ]

Here's the rig our quail guides use, little fancy (boxes and truck bed Aluminum) but you could do the same thing or use steel to make it. Instead of tie downs for the Ranger he has a bar in front and a pivot one on the back that wedges the UTV in place on the trailer, you can see the post for the back one above the tail light.

[Circle C]

looks like some of the rigs we see in Pearsall on occasion.

[BRUTE]

Here's the rig our quail guides use, little fancy (boxes and truck bed Aluminum) but you could do the same thing or use steel to make it. Instead of tie downs for the Ranger he has a bar in front and a pivot one on the back that wedges the UTV in place on the trailer, you can see the post for the back one above the tail light.

That's like 50-Gs in dog boxes there...  ... Having hog dogs in a rig like that is like wearing camo when you go hunting.

[Circle C]

Brute,

   Check out this place for some STOUT stock trailers.

http://www.easleytrailers.com/

I have pretty much stuck with Gooseneck, Neckover, and Hanover for stock trailers in the past. I have seen Fair West trailers, but I never paid them much attention.

[Russ]

Here's the rig our quail guides use, little fancy (boxes and truck bed Aluminum) but you could do the same thing or use steel to make it. Instead of tie downs for the Ranger he has a bar in front and a pivot one on the back that wedges the UTV in place on the trailer, you can see the post for the back one above the tail light.

That's like 50-Gs in dog boxes there...  ... Having hog dogs in a rig like that is like wearing camo when you go hunting.

That's why he welds his own LOTS cheaper that way . About that rig total (not counting truck, trailer and Ranger, just the boxes for all three) would be about $25-32,000. I don't like the quail rig he has on the truck (too high) but the one on the car hauler in light steel would be SAWEETTT!!! I know some hog hunters down here use older model trucks with the orginal steel quail rigs on the back (flat bed with four boxes level on each side, seat on top of them like Brute's) and like them for hauling everything.

[longshot]

$25-32,000

   Is it just me or is $25K a little out of most hog doggers budget for a dog box?
Longshot

[Circle C]

Longshot,

     I hunt hogs because I cannot afford to hunt birds    We joke about not being wealthy enough to bird hunt. Gotta talk to Matt_Aggie if you want to know what it is like

Truth is, hogs are fun for me. Birds.Not so much.

[jlingle]

No, it's not just you.  Do you have any idea what my wife would do to me if I came home with a rig like that?  Let's just say I'd better be able to live out of it, 'cause it ain't never gonna get parked in my.... errrr her driveway again.

Very nice rig, though.  Perhaps a fuzz out of my price range (my dog box was made out of scrap from dad's metal pile) but a very nice rig anyway.

[mley1]

Looks like they are definately serious about their bird hunting.

[matt_aggie04]

Well I think I may have found the answer to my trailer problem today!

I had a gentleman decide that my 20' flatbed was worth more then I did and payed me pretty good for it.  Coincindently I found a trailer during lunch that cought my interest on the computer so after selling mine I drove the 60 miles to take a look at a 1984 24' Neckover stock trailer.  Afraid that it may be a basket caseI went anyway because the price was REALLY good.  Upon arrival I found a CLEEEAAAN trailer that looked like it had had hardly ever been used.  The elderly lady that owned it said it belonged to her ex husband and they had bought it new in 1984 and kept really good care of it and then had it sand blasted primed and painted a few years back.  Before I hooked on to it it had not been moved in three years so it has a little green on the white tarp and on the paint but is just what I was looking for.  I need to add an escape door in the front but other then that I like it alot.  I will post pics of it tomorrow.

Matt

[BRUTE]

Good deal Matt, now the fun begins.

Circle C
Those are some nice trailers... wonder what the prices are like on them? There are no dealers near here though.

Ya the seat on that truck looks awfully high. It is sitting on a double decker box though, most are just one and the seat I have been on. (When the bosses take me, can't afford to go any other way )

I am still trying to get Matt to build me a bed for my MULE out of regular steel....   Matt, I will trade you a dog trailer for a bed?

[matt_aggie04]

You wouldn't want me to build another bed like mine, it would cost you too much.     If you really do decide that you would like for me to build you one pm me and let me borrow your mule for about a week and I will have you fixed up.  If you had a 610 I could build it off of mine but I don't have access to 3010 for measuring and fitting.  One thing that I will say is that I really like having my bed and I don't think my mule would be near as handy with out it.  We might be able to do some horse trading, let me know what you got....

On this bird hunting thing I will let yall in on a little secret and that is you gotta approach it like hog hunting.  Me and my cousins all have bird dogs and and none of us have ever paid for a single one of them.  We are lucky enought to know people that got them started years ago and my cousins and friends breed their own bird dogs.  These dogs are bred right and they turn on extrememly early (hunting well by 6months old).  Combine that with a place that has a great quail populationa and bam, you are in business.  I really enjoy bird hunting, there are few things that are better especially with your own dog but the kicker and the thing that keeps me from having more bird dogs is the short season.  It is hard to feed a dog 12 months and only really hunt it for 3 months out of the year. 

[Silverton Boar Dogs]

Brute & Circle C...Easley Trailers and Reyas Trailers "Reyas is made by the old Easley factoey" are the best built trailers on the market. I have owned both. 5x16 half top single axle gooseneck will be about $8,500. They are built to use and will hold up better than anything else I have seen.

Matt... That Neckover sounds perfect. They are well built trailers I pulled a 28' for several years. I have been looking for one just like the one you found.....so if you need to sell for some reason I am in the market.....

Paul T