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I'm looking at a second hand laurie trailer but I need find out the unladen weight.
I have tried googling it but cannot find anything and the company no longer exists.
I was wondering if anybody owned one of these trailers and knew the unladen weight.
It a rear load/unload and will take two 15.2hh.
Thanks
 
No you won't!!! They are old trailers, my first one was about 30yrs old I think when I got it!!! I took it to a weigh bridge, it was a single and weighed about 650Kg from memory???? You'll have to get it to a weigh bridge to know for sure.
 
I have one have no idea on the weights on it, its not very heavy though, even I can pull it when its empty.

I'd be interested in the MAM of it, but theres no way of finding this out.
 
I <3 My Teddi said:
I have one have no idea on the weights on it, its not very heavy though, even I can pull it when its empty.

I'd be interested in the MAM of it, but theres no way of finding this out.
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Trailers without plates use the total of the TYRE LOAD RATINGS to determine the MAM.
A rating of 66 on 4 tyres would give a MAM of 1200 kgs.

As said - weighbridge for the unladen/empty weight

If towing on a B licence without trailer plate the authorities will take the total of the tyre load rating to be the trailer MAM for the calculations for B licence towing rules

If towing on a B+E licence then its easier - simply use the LOWER of these two weights for a loaded trailer
Trailer MAM
Vehicle towing capacity
 
ROG said:
Trailers without plates use the total of the TYRE LOAD RATINGS to determine the MAM.
A rating of 66 on 4 tyres would give a MAM of 1200 kgs.

As said - weighbridge for the unladen/empty weight

If towing on a B licence without trailer plate the authorities will take the total of the tyre load rating to be the trailer MAM for the calculations for B licence towing rules
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Ohhhh thank you. So..... sorry..... where do i find the tyre weights? im guessing its written on the tyre somewhere.
 
I <3 My Teddi said:
Yes it does thank you. My Tyres say 83T
So that 487kgx4 = 1948kg.
So its basically MAM of 2000kg.

Thank you. :)
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I would work on 1800 max because if stopped and weighed they may weigh each wheel individually so trying to fully load the trailer and not overload a single wheel is going to be very tricky
 
competitiondiva said:
No you won't!!! They are old trailers, my first one was about 30yrs old I think when I got it!!! I took it to a weigh bridge, it was a single and weighed about 650Kg from memory???? You'll have to get it to a weigh bridge to know for sure.
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I had a single in 1975 and 650 kg rings a bell with me. Loved it - towed with a car - no probs.
 
My first trailer was a Laurie, weighed it on a weigh bridge when i sold it and it was 605kg with a brand new floor. Beware the chassis rot and we got a real shock when we took the old floor out as from underneath the chassis looked fine but with the floor out there was quite literally a tiny rusty bit holding it together. We had to replace a large chunk of it! another friend found exactly the same problem on hers but they would be old when we had them and this was 15 years ago!
 
Wouldn't touch it I'm afraid.

Friend had a double front and rear unload- it would sway all over the road and bounce something terrible with small ponies in it.

Very light weight, nothing to give it stability....
Friend spent fortune on new brakes, tow hitch, floors, electrics, welding. Her horse starting not to load or travel well at all. Finally she bought an ifor- horse travelled no probs.
 
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