Enclosed 4 place with 65" height
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From personal experience, you learn to duck after 1 or 2 hits to the noggen!
favoritos
Well-known member
There is one advantage to short shoes.
I'm sure you can get used to ducking with the lower headroom, but the taller trailer leaves you with more options.
Let's say you want to go to the races and potentially use the trailer for some sort of gathering spot.
Maybe you want to use the trailer to help your friends move for the umpteenth time.
It might happen, . .that you need to use the trailer to do a small overhaul while up in the northwoods.
Maybe, you actually like the finish on the top of your helmet.
No matter how often you remember to duck going into the shorter trailer, you will still have occasions when you forget.
cuzzinolaf
Well-known member
I have a short trailer and haven't hit my head since the beginning. Others have loaded their sleds in my trailer and wacked their noggen. I believe mine is less than 65" as I am no where near close to standing straight up.
borderstaff
New member
I have a snocaps cover on my 4-place and the ceiling is very low - my M8 with a riser nearly touches the ceiling. You can't do much work in there if something breaks and you need to work inside but as far as loading and unloading it isn't that bad. I always sit down and lean towards the inside of the trailer and haven't hit my head yet... For unloading I usually crouch alongside the sled until I get to the nose and then the front door in high enough that I can kneel on the sled to ride out.
polarisrider1
New member
just wear a helmet when loading sled.
LOL - That always works as a last resort!
booondocker
New member
I have two of the taller ones, and seems to me that you limit your use of a lowboy....to just hauling sleds in and out.
Don't forget that those two smokers fog up that lower area very quickly too.
As far as hauling them down the road, they all are road pigs...so might as well get one that can have multiple uses, and you can sell it to someone someday who isn't necessarily going to use it for just hauling sleds.
They roll fine til you hit about 65, then the gas peddle moves down but the speedo doesn't like to move much faster.
Course if the deal is a smoking good one....perhaps it is worth it.
Don't forget that those two smokers fog up that lower area very quickly too.
As far as hauling them down the road, they all are road pigs...so might as well get one that can have multiple uses, and you can sell it to someone someday who isn't necessarily going to use it for just hauling sleds.
They roll fine til you hit about 65, then the gas peddle moves down but the speedo doesn't like to move much faster.
Course if the deal is a smoking good one....perhaps it is worth it.
mjkaliszak
New member
I originally thought that the trailer I bought ( extra tall R&R inline ) was the way to go. For 6K + I didn't wan't to be hitting my "rock holder" everytime I didn't pay attention and remember to duck. This was great until 1 time coming across 55 back from the UP , the wind was blowing across those open fields from the north N-west . The road had some black ice on it and actually pushed the trailer sideways. It scared the shat out of me. Since then I always thought a low - boy might be better, less surface area. The x-tall sticks up 2 feet or more than the back of my suburban. I find that I'm not in & out as much as I thought I would be anyways.
Sled Solutions
Member
Says the midget. LOL
bogiewheel
Member
I would go taller. Evern then, flip up the modular and forget and an open trailer sounds like a good idea.
OUCH!!
But i also have a low covered trailer(sno-cap). No problems here!! And im 6'3.