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opnspaces wrote:To dedmiston, I'm curious, is the poster banned from posting on the forum or just prohibited from posting about the folding trailer?
He’s gone. Banned.
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dedmiston wrote:opnspaces wrote:To dedmiston, I'm curious, is the poster banned from posting on the forum or just prohibited from posting about the folding trailer?
He’s gone. Banned.
No discounted pricing on a Madmax folding trailer for you LOL.
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Danger Don wrote:No discounted pricing on a Madmax folding trailer for you LOL.
Yep. It's no fun to use the Dad Voice, but somebody has to do it.
No folding trailer for me though.
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deltabravo wrote:I'd use it at home for yard cleanup. I'd tow it behind my Polaris Ranger, but there's far cheaper and lighter trailers for that duty.
I have a small utility/dump type trailer that I hook behind my riding mower for that. It's made for riding mowers. The rails come off. The front, back, and sides also come off if you need a flatbed trailer. It also tips up to make a dump trailer.
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Not seeing any advantage over a small utility trailer.
- If you are driving around, just tow it.
- If it's at home, we had a pulley set up in the garage to lift the tongue so it sat upright against the wall.
- It's not particularly hard to back up a trailer or if you unload it a small utility trailer can be pushed around by hand (Get a wheel type tongue jack if you need to do this a lot).
If you are really that challenged backing a trailer, consider one of the swivel wheel trailers.
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Bobbo wrote:You say the license plate swivels down so it is visible when retracted. My state does not license utility trailers, so the trailer would have no license. The license plate that is blocked is the tow vehicle's plate.
For states that do require a trailer license plate...kind of a gray area.
If no part of the contraption is touching the ground, is it legally still a trailer? If not, is it legitimate to show a trailer license plate?
I don't know the answer but seems like an opportunity for a speed trap cop to tack on an extra ticket and let you fight it in court.
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The fact that this discussion made 3 pages is amazing….or evidence of cabin fever…
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valhalla360 wrote:Bobbo wrote:You say the license plate swivels down so it is visible when retracted. My state does not license utility trailers, so the trailer would have no license. The license plate that is blocked is the tow vehicle's plate.
For states that do require a trailer license plate...kind of a gray area.
If no part of the contraption is touching the ground, is it legally still a trailer? If not, is it legitimate to show a trailer license plate?
I don't know the answer but seems like an opportunity for a speed trap cop to tack on an extra ticket and let you fight it in court.
Buford T Justice might not care too much about tags hidden by a trailer or anything else in the Post Covid driving world when you take into account the average speed is 90 mph and at least 2 cars blow through every red signal in the US when it turns LOL.
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Danger Don wrote:
Buford T Justice might not care too much about tags hidden by a trailer or anything else in the Post Covid driving world when you take into account the average speed is 90 mph and at least 2 cars blow through every red signal in the US when it turns LOL.
Basically don't want to give Buford an excuse to pull you over. Blend in with the herd so to speak.
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I can commend the designers for their ingenuity. It is neat. However, I don't think they consulted the intended market for folks that actually need and use a trailer. I don't always think the "If you build it they will come." adage is always correct.
I agree that at a show you might be able to snag a newbie into seeing how cute this is. And possibly get them to buy it. (I'm sorry I missed this unit at the Springfield Show. I was there, but have no interest in trailers, so even if I did see it, I'd just walk by. Oh well.)
In reality, not being able to open the tail gate on an SUV or minivan is a HUGE issue. Before we got our motorhome, I purchased a trailer-hitch mounted trunk for our minivan for our longer trips. I had to pay a fair amount extra for the type that pivoted away when mounted so you could access the tailgate and what was stored there. Without that access, we couldn't use that space. That would negate the purpose of using the hitch mounted trunk. If you can't access the stuff in the back of your vehicle because the trailer is folded up, then where would you put it? Oh yeah, in the trailer, so you don't need it to fold. But...now you can access the tailgate. So....just leave the trailer down.
The only time I could possibly see this as being helpful that hasn't been mentioned is in toll road calculations. You'd save an axle in toll costs. I doubt those savings would ever come near to the cost of this unit.
Blocking the vehicle's rear license plate is DEFINITELY a no-no. Our hitch mounted trunk has a lighted license plate frame and brake & turn signal lights as well.
Again, this is an interesting idea, but I think it's a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist for most, and when it IS a solution, it raises new problems if you try to use it.
As a business, I hope they do well. But if I were them, I've be working on the design of Version 2.0. ![[emoticon]](https://forums.goodsamclub.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
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