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Customization, Deck Material, and Suspension

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Did I buy the wrong Trailer?

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Jacob further details the customizability of Diamond C trailers. He explains that while the standard paint process is used, custom colors like the 'Kubota orange' seen on the trailer are available for a slight upcharge, allowing customers to match their trailer to their truck or equipment. He highlights the deck material, 'Blackwood', which is a rubber-infused lumber product. This material is lighter than traditional composite decks, offering increased strength and reducing overall trailer weight. He also reiterates the differences between torsion and spring suspension systems.

Goal: Explore options for customizing trailer appearance and understanding performance-enhancing materials.

Tools and materials

  • Custom Paint Kubota — Matching trailer color to a tow vehicle

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how fast was that and then versus if we were at the old trailer we'd be here another probably two or three minutes still yeah trying to get it off the ground and you guys that know look at that and you know I don't see a safety pin in that no safety pin requires safety pin required Demco does not I mean they don't typically a couple of Manufacturers are going to send you the required you know extra safety pin or whatnot and Demco sells it to us just like this and they say there's not an additional pin required all right let's go through the specs on this thing what are the axles on it two seven thousand pound leopard axles custom paint or standard paint so standard paint process but it is the orange is a custom up charge we have eight different colors that are no charge but on the orange it is up charge slightly over standard and if you guys really want to go nuts and you buy yourself a brand new Ford pickup truck Chevy I'd swore at some of you guys sorry or a ram and you have a very specific color like like you have here with Jacob's truck you send him the color code and you can match any color as long as you have the color code and you guys can be rolling down the road with your trailer exactly matching your truck yeah it's pretty close very close I mean the powder formulas will come out maybe slightly different but it's like a shade or so I mean most like 99.99 everybody's thrilled how close it actually gets so it definitely it's cool that that is something that's somewhat unique because all the other guys they just want to pump out as many black ones as they can get and so definitely with us colors is a it's something we really enjoy doing and like this I mean if somebody was to steal one of these like they did your other one it'd be a lot harder to hide you know obviously that's I call it cheap insurance when I do videos on the colors because I'm like number one people see you coming number two they know Stanley is on the job and number three it's a whole lot harder to hide if they were to steal it so good points that I never thought of okay so let's see how she operates Jacob so this is a mechanical ledge it's what it's just the extra um it's the it's the main hold down latch that holds the bed in the down the travel position so it's easy spring pin now we're open and so right now there's a hydraulic valve here this is the open position this is closed position and that close stops it to where it won't open it's a hydraulic lock valve so the main…

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