In-line trailer length?

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Harski

i found the same problem when we borrowed our friends inline and we were towing it with my excursion which is a one ton. When you get next to a semi u start swaying like crazy it makes me not want to buy an inline at all



when we were towing back and forth between illinois and the u.p. last summer our fuel mileage dropped by 1/10th of a gallon towing behind the excursion when we switched from our side by side to the inline both of which had the same load

Seems odd on the mileage. I know that you do need a longer trailer when going to the inline style. Maybe the added sidewall?
Our mileage does vary quite a lot based on driving conditions.

We did get a different inline midseason and it has a longer V and hitch. This trailer seems to pull much easier. We used to get vortex wind between the trailer and the back window on the burb. It would get annoying to listen to the window being sucked open partially in strong headwind driving. The longer hitch and v seem to have stopped that issue. It is also easier to get into the box of the pickup or back of the burb while the trailer is still hooked. We could not fully open the tailgate with the shorter hitch.

You can see the difference on the hitch length in these two pictures.

 

[lvr1000]

tounge-what's that?

I normally tow my 7X29 Legend with an Expedition WITH LOAD LEVELING. I figure I have at LEAST 1500 lbs on the tongue. Had to go with HD truck tires cause the P265's had too much side play. No sway or wind issues, but if I'm half asleep at the wheel, passing a semi at a huge speed difference, will pull me in.

Can't believe the 1/10 mpg, are you comparing apples to apples?? (same load, wind conditions, speed, temps) With a side by side, I've had 5 mpg difference on the same trip, wind was the ony difference.

 

[winter_time]

i am comparing apples to apples we did about 4 trips with these two trailers our side by side is a steel haulmark 4 place with the flat front and the low ceiling we couldnt believe it ourselves but it is true. I do not know if this is true or not but one of the family friends claims that he too felt the trailer get pushed around by the wind from a semi and he claims it is because of the wind hitting the v due to the high amount of surface area of the trailer and the big gap between the car and the trailer and it allows the wind to push the trailer all over the place. he also claims that our friend that owns the trailer doesnt feel the sway because he has the steped up cap which allows the wind to hit higher on the trailer thus hitting less of a surface and causing it not to be pushed around by the wind but when it is behind our excursion which is about two feet shorter than our friends truck with the cap we really feel the wind because it has more surface to hit.

 

[LarryD]

Get load leveling hitch and sway bar from NAPA and vortex is gone.

 

[trailerman]

stop into big os trailers in Portage. they offer to let you pull an inline and after pulling all sorts of the wide deckovers, i will never own a deckover snow trailer again. because of the lower deck height of the inline model (load in front door) my 6 year old son loads the sleds vs the step ramp doors of the deckovers. Also much more vesitile trailer. I haul lawn mowers and have helped many people move with my inline, because it is lower and less steep on the ramps. Out west sledders also like the ease of pulling at high speeds vs the deckovers that tend to almost start to get lift because of the deck over the tires.