Rice trailer

[Jayr]

Hi Guys

I have a treble badminton rice trailer in need of new axels and braking system. I’m in egham Surrey, could anyone help or point me in the right direction.

 

[Rowreach]

If you do a search on here there was a thread about someone who does spares for Rice/Richardson a while back. May still be in business.

 

[Jayr]

Will have a look, thanks ?

 

[Merry neddy man]

If you put " Rice Richardson " in the search box in the top righthand corner of this page it will throw up lots of threads , it will take some time to read them but the answers will be there.

 

[Dexter]

You wont find Rice spares for these. There wasn't many made and they weren't stocked routinely. But its not difficult to get some made up. Google for a supplier near you, give them the measurements and weight limit you want and they will make them up. They should come with hubs, backplates and brakes attached. You will then need to attach a brake cable as I think the Badminton used a rod. Its an easy job but a trailer mechanic will do it if you cant or dont want to.

I'd factor in it being expensive though. I think the axles on these were 1750kgs each which arent going to be cheap. Depending what you want the trailer for you might be able to downrate the axles and save some money. The box and frame isn't particularly heavy on these, about 1200kgs from memory but it was designed to take 3 horses, so had a 3500kgs weight limit. If this is for conversion you wont need anywhere near that capability

 

[Jayr]

You wont find Rice spares for these. There wasn't many made and they weren't stocked routinely. But its not difficult to get some made up. Google for a supplier near you, give them the measurements and weight limit you want and they will make them up. They should come with hubs, backplates and brakes attached. You will then need to attach a brake cable as I think the Badminton used a rod. Its an easy job but a trailer mechanic will do it if you cant or dont want to.

I'd factor in it being expensive though. I think the axles on these were 1750kgs each which arent going to be cheap. Depending what you want the trailer for you might be able to downrate the axles and save some money. The box and frame isn't particularly heavy on these, about 1200kgs from memory but it was designed to take 3 horses, so had a 3500kgs weight limit. If this is for conversion you wont need anywhere near that capability

Thank you, I have found a company but I’m struggling with giving accurate measurements of the axels. I’ve even offered to pay someone to do this for me with no luck.

 

[Dexter]

I'd take the floor up and do it that way otherwise you need to jack it up and get underneath, but I'm not a fan of that and always go in through the floor.