Trailer stabilisers?

[fizzy]

The old sheep trailer I had was a single axle and perfectly balanced. I would carry about 1.5 tons of pallet blocks in it. No jockey wheel and I could pick it up with 1 hand and spin it around. When towing there was about zero downforce - in fact you could hear the coupling rocking on the hitch and yet it was totally stable and never gave me any trouble.
The worst journey ever was towing a Bateson hydraulic tilt twin axle trailer on the motorway behind my Discovery. The wheel ruts were a nightmare and I spent the whole journey trying to avoid them.
I thought it was the trailer at fault. After this happening a few times I changed the front tyres on the Discovery - perfect never a problem again! There was nothing visibly wrong with the tyres either but they obviously has an effect!

 

[normspanners]

It's not always weight behind the axle...

it mostly is weight behind though I have towed all kinds of trailers for many years the only big wag I have had was a davy brown tractor that wouldnt fit far enough forward on my plant trailer, it was fine at 30 but go 2mph over and I could feel it start going, also when going down hill makes a massive difference it is when the trailer starts to push because it exasperates the situation, I was on the dual carriageway and looked down and was doing 35 and going slightly down hill, also at that point bus was overtaking and caused the sucking effect, well it started and was taking me the full width of the dual carriageway the bus backed off and gave me space, the best thing is to go with it, do not fight it, if it wants to take you, let it, then slowly try to reduce speed people say to accelerate it is no use trying to accelerate because if caused by speed what are you going to do when you've accelerated to a faster speed then ?? if you have to brake,say on a down hill decent only brake when the rig is in perfectly in line then you can brake reasonably hard, then off again as it goes off centre.
I was wagging for what seemed like ages, it took the twin axle trailer and long wheel base tranny and shook it like a dog with a rag and that was, as said at 35 mph it wasnt a problem, but it could have been had I not had the space , I continued with my eyes glued to the speedo and had no issues up to 30.

 

[Gritineye]

Sometimes just matching the trailer to the vehicles capabilities helps..

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