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Upgraded Trailer Features and Axle Ratings

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DO NOT buy a trailer until you see this.

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This step introduces an upgraded 14,000-pound trailer, which Josh refers to as 'on steroids'. Key upgrades include a built-in toolbox (welded for structural integrity), a heavier 6-inch channel frame, significantly more tie-down points (5/8-inch D-rings between every second stake pocket), a larger fender step, and a 1/4-inch wall fender (3/16-inch thick). It features two 8,000-pound Dexter axles, which are designed not just to haul, but crucially, to *stop* 16,000 pounds. The discussion also touches on the deceptive practice of some manufacturers using larger hubs on smaller-rated axles.

Goal: Understand the enhancements and true weight ratings of an upgraded trailer.

Tools and materials

  • 10k Dexter Axle Dexter — Comparison of different axle sizes and ratings
  • 7k Dexter Axle Dexter — Comparison of different axle sizes and ratings
  • 8k Dexter Axle Dexter — Comparison of different axle sizes and ratings
  • Upgraded Equipment Trailer Rice Trailers — Showcasing enhanced trailer construction

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>> This is a critical thing to understand. And so, now as we go over here, this is kind of like your next level up from that trailer. I would say this is like a 14K on steroids. Okay. So, he, you know, we took a little bit of TRT, a little bit of performance-enhancing. So, you instantly get a built-in toolbox, built-in storage box on this, and that's all welded to the trailer. So, it does give you a little bit more structure there. Um, this one will have a heavier 6-in channel frame on it. You get a lot more tie down capabilities on it. You got four there. You've got >> Yeah, pretty much in between every ST pocket, we'll put one of these 5/8 D-rings. And then you got three at the front on that as well. >> Step back here. You've got a a bigger fender step on this. Um, and then we go to a this is a quarter wall fender on this. So, this thing it's and a 3/16 back on it. So, it's it's it's very very tough. Moving down to your axles, you got two 8,000 lb Dexter and they're meant to stop 8 uh 16,000lb. So there there's a difference in the in the hubs and you can probably cut to it and show the actual difference in the hubs. So a lot of people are building these 8,000lb axles or a 16k rated trailer, but it's pretty much just a 14K with bigger studs >> axles side by right now. And this is a 7K axle. >> 7K. Yeah. >> Okay. So seven here, eight, and a 10K. But people are calling this 7K and 8K. >> Well, they kind of change a few things around on the hub and they just make the studs bigger like what's on that 8K. But the thing about it is is it's rated for seven rated to stop it. It's not rated to stop 8,000. That's why you got to get to a bigger brake and a bigger hub, drum, bearings, bigger tube, all of that to rate 8,000 to to stop it >> to stop 8,000. >> Then you go to 10,000. So, we get that much more bigger. Um, same uh same studs and everything, but just massive bearings. Just a lot bigger. I mean, >> and look at the tube. >> Yeah, look at the size of the tube on it. So, it's torsion ride, too. So, you know, torsion axle. Uh, torsion springs on it. Not springs, rubber springs pretty much. But that's what it is. So, what would you rather ride on, you know? >> Right. So, that's your seven, your eight, and your 10. But a lot of companies are calling those sevens. >> They call it a hybrid. Yeah. >> A hybrid. >> Yeah. So your tube, everything essentially the same size. Only…

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