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Semi sized utility pole & pipe trailer, good condition
I pulled it home and it pulled great. It has an inverted fifth wheel hitch to tow it with which is what is used on some larger camper trailers and some gooseneck trailers. This is where the kingpin is on the truck and the fifth wheel is on the trailer - just opposite of a semi truck. It uses the same size kingpin as a semi. I made an adapter so I could pull it with a standard semi. I took two kinpins and welded them together with a plate between them. You slide it into your semi tractor fifth wheel and you then have a kingpin sticking up in the air above the fifth wheel to hook the trailer to. I think the trailer was originally built with a normal type kingpin on the bottom for a standard semi, but at some point they changed it over to the inverted fifth wheel type. They added a four inch tall piece of steel onto the front to raise it up to accomodate the Holland brand inverted fifth wheel. They also added four inches to the back of the trailer so that the poles haul level. You could just remove the inverted fifth wheel and reinstall a king pin if you wanted to.
The tires are in very good condition. Two of them are like new. They are Firestone size 11R 22.5 and are really heavy duty tires. They are load range H which is 16 ply. The other two are a little older, but are still excellent tires. They are load range F and are in good condition. I would not be afraid to pull it anywhere on them.
The brakes are air brakes and they work great. The pads look like they were recently replaced, they are good and thick. Every trailer I have ever bought from this company works good, they maintain them well.
The light plug has been removed. There is still a plug wire in place that runs all the way to the back of the trailer. It has places where it is held up on hooks for when you shorten the trailer up so the wire does not drag. It all looks in good condition.
There is no jack on the tounge. They stored it when not in use on a stand sometimes, but most of the time they pulled it behind a Altec digger derrick crane and they used the crane winch line to pick it up and hook up to it that way. It would be simple to install a set of drop down legs or a set of Holland jacks to raise and lower it with. This is a very heavily built trailer. The pictures don't really show how well constructed it is out of heavy wall steel and heavy wall pipe. It is a very well designed trailer.
This trailer is in good working condition.
