Ifor Williams Trailer - eye hooks breast bar release advice pls?

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

Has anyone that has the newer style 403, 506 or 511 Ifor Williams trailers with the breast bar release system and eye bolts on the outside please advise me as I've not really seen these "in the flesh"

How many eyes are fitted to your trailer as standard?

How many do you have to undo to relase the breast bar? One or two?

Does the wheel brace that fits inside these come with the trailer when new?

Are they easy to do?

Many thanks for your help and advice with this.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I've got a 510. I recently posted on another thread about how easy it is to drop the breast and/breech bar on an Ifor, having had to do it myself in an emergency. The principles are the same for the 510 and the 511, but is easier for the latter due to it being fitted with eye bolts, rather than an allen key fitting.

You would need to release a single eye bolt on the exterior of the trailer to allow the bar to drop down inside the trailer. I was able to drop the bar using just an allen key despite a 550 kg horse being straddled over the bar. The wheel brace is supplied with the trailer, and replacements are readily available.

 

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

Thanks Tiddlypom thats very helpful. So the brackets inside to hold the breast bars, do they only have one "bolt" through them or two? From the outside there seems to be four in a square shape, but only two brackets? So I am assuming the top two fix the top bracket and the bottom two fix the bottom bracket.

 

[FfionWinnie]

There's only one bolt per bar, the extra bolts are for the other height you can put the bar at.

 

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

That explains it then FfionWinnie - but there are two bolts level with each other at the upper height selection then two bolts level with each other at the lower height selection? Why is this do you know?

 

[FfionWinnie]

Lol I'm going to have to look again now and get back to you, maybe it is two per level! They are easy to undo tho and I did get the tool with it but you could use loads of things to undo it, anything that would fit in the hole.

 

[9tails]

There are two bolts per bar.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Ha, think it's me being muddled ! Sorry,all. It's two bolts per bracket.

510 breech bar, exterior allen key fittings. Now updated for the 511 etc with easier to use bolts, but otherwise similar principles. The upper row shown above held the bracket that we released when the late chesnut git got hung up on the breast bar. There was no serious damage done to the trailer, we refitted the bracket, loaded him back up and took him home in disgrace.

Breast bar in normal travelling position. (I have had a third lower set of brackets added as a retrofit option, the lowest height is for small ponies.) A normal double trailer would have 16 brackets (8 each side of the partition).

Breast bar hooked in place for travelling.

Breast bar dropped for front unloading. It drops to a similar angle if the exterior bolts are released.

 

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

What a fabulous and full reply Tiddlypom. Your pictures show it all, and now I know for sure what they do and how it all works, thanks so much for taking the time to explain it all and show pictures as well.