Hi,
So I’m looking to sell the three rigids that I have and buy a secondhand tractor unit with a couple of trailers for the various needs we have on the farm (horsebox, Hay & Straw flatbed & a beavertail for moving plant & tractors etc). I like the idea of the manuverability of the steer axle / single axle urban trailers for collecting straw from tight access fields but I need a twin sleeper unit for the horsebox work, so an urban tractor won’t work. If I buy a lowrider tractor unit (thus be able to get a long distance cab), will it be able to cope with standard trailers & the urban ones? My understanding is the urban trailers are on 19" wheels?
All advice welcome!!
Thanks
Paul
Why don’t you look Into buying a dual height trailer that way you could run a standard tractor unit for your trailers
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Low ride unit with a lifting fifth wheel would do the job.
You can find urban trailers with standard size wheels, here’s a pic of the firm I work for’s older urban hooked up to a low ride Merc.
The newer Krone urban we have runs on smaller wheels.
glynn.woodward:
Why don’t you look Into buying a dual height trailer that way you could run a standard tractor unit for your trailers
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Thanks … but all I’m interested in is the manuoverability aspect and having a long distance cab … as cheaply as possible. 
The urban trailer are peanuts second hand but I’m not sure what tractor units can pull them. Obviously, I could buy an urban artic tractor but then I can’t have the long distance cab? … I just wondered if a lowrider tractor unit would enable me to achieve both thinks… plus take a normal height trailer ■■
AJF3011:
Low ride unit with a lifting fifth wheel would do the job.
You can find urban trailers with standard size wheels, here’s a pic of the firm I work for’s older urban hooked up to a low ride Merc.
The newer Krone urban we have runs on smaller wheels.
That looks greatand seems like a great solution, another question …do all lowrider tractors have a lifting fifth wheel?
Diggerlot:
That looks greatand seems like a great solution, another question …do all lowrider tractors have a lifting fifth wheel?
They certainly don’t! In my company we have over 30 of them and only about 10 have dual height turntables.
I wonder also how long a neck some of these urban trailers might have, and there’s a risk of fouling the legs: perhaps that’s something to watch out for.
NIce concept though! I’d be a bit cautious about ground clearance on farm work
Here’s my old lowride truck, I’m not sure I’d want to use one on farm work, unless you are going to remove the front bumper before you start…
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I’m sure there are many urban trailers that have a standard coupling height of about 1250mm, as it allows those that use them, like supermarkets, to have standard fifth wheel height tractor units to pull all their trailers.
Also as Truckertang said a lowride for farm work might get messy, I drive one and raise the suspension for even a slightly rough ground.
truckertang:
Here’s my old lowride truck, I’m not sure I’d want to use one on farm work, unless you are going to remove the front bumper before you start…
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Yep understood, the Lowrider tractors would probably not have enough ground clearance… I guess the only solution to my predicament is to look for urban trailers that are on 22" wheels rather than 19" Anyone got much experience of tandem axle trailes with a rear steer? …does it make much difference? Any issues going backwards?
