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 Gooseneck
ball hitches, short bed hitches, 5th wheel
conversions, the list goes on |
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QuickBite Couplers will amaze you. Self
aligns for auto latching trailer hookup.
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Montana Tractors
I've owned several loader tractors
in my decades on the farm, backhoe business & custom haying.
Montana's have what I look, solid easy to maneuver tractor.
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here to answer those tough horse trailer & RV trailer questions,
save you money, & review new trailers, accessories &
hauler trucks."
Visit our new forum, as we search for the
"Truth about Trailers." Andrew Lyons, for
trailer info 1-800-909-7071
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Living
Quarters
Headquarters
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  It’s
official, Dave Smerchek, owner of Titan Trailer
Manufacturing headquartered in Waterville, Kansas,
purchased Logan Coach April 8, 2009. Plans are to
continue producing the Logan Coach brand trailers in the
same town they originated in, Logan, Utah, as a division
of Titan Trailer Manufacturing, Inc.
This
union will allow Titan to expand to the West and Logan
Coach to expand to the East with an economic advantage
in volume and transportation costs. Logan Coach is
keeping their current dealer support team for a seamless
transition to new ownership.
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  2009
Silverado Crew Cab, new 6-speed auto tranny tows a Logan
Coach well in Rockies.
Crew cabs are the new "mini" van with folding rear seats
for hauling cargo inside and cup holders galore.
Factory option trailer brake controller, new for GM 1/2
tons, takes worry....More..... |
 
Trailer Electronic Technology for Safer, Easier Connection.
EZ
is a magnetic connection, powerful magnets. Just get the male end near
the female plug and "pop" it sucks together. A tab slot align the socket
and plug to match the right connections. The male end has two silicone
o-rings, the cables have sealant injected inside, all to make the system
water proof. If you can keep the water out, you can keep the mud and all
the corrosive chemicals used to dissolve ice on the highway out. Spent my share of nights with a flashlight in
my mouth in the rain as I work on trailer lights.
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  EZ - Connector,
RV Pro Plug
and Max Brake Wireless Trailer Light Tester
Those of use
that tow trailers every week know how many times we drop
the coupler on the ball and plug in the wire connection
(and wiggle the connection for contact.) Spent my share
of nights with a flashlight in my mouth in the rain as I
work on trailer lights. Fuel injection and electronics
make our trucks more trouble free, now trailer wiring
and electronics make tracing trailer wire problems a
breeze. What do you do when you don't have someone to
check your trailer lights while you run the blinkers and
light switch?
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  It’s
a new dawn in the trailer industry today as the North
American Trailer Dealers Association (NATDA) announced
the launch of the
NATM
Affiliate Program
which will bring safety and regulatory information from
the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM)
down to the trailer dealers. This is a great
opportunity for these two associations to work together
to better educate the dealers, and ultimately the end
users, on the safety and regulatory information.
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  Step
Above trailer ladder. I've
said it before, most folks don't use their hay racks. Mainly
because it's too hard to get to. A big share of factory hay rack
ladders don't cut it. Too narrow, flimsy or just plain scary.
Step Above is a slide-out aluminum ladder that makes the roof of
your trailer an easy trip and safe. Having the right angle
slanted away from the trailer takes the work out of climbing a
ladder just like your step ladder you use around the house. Step
Above slides out to the ground for just the right slope for
climbing. More.... |
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CNG, is it the Answer for the Fuel Crisis?
 Forget veggie oil, bio-diesel, power programmers and hydrogen water separators. And hear the gospel of CNG/diesel. The beauty of this system is if I can't find a Compressed Natural Gas fill up station, I just run on diesel. We've now had time to run several tanks through our test truck in a loop using both CNG and diesel together at 2 to 1. We reduced our fuel by...... Almost double that with Utah prices, Read the rest as one of the most important reviews this year...
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Melissa's Horse Sense
(Melissa
Brawner) |
Buying and Selling Horses at
Auction.
I walked up to the stall, circling the horse
inside. I put her on the definite possibility list. My
husband and clients looked at me as if I were a crazy person. They
saw a raggedy, thin filly that was full of burrs, rough feet, matted
mane, and a huge gash on her leg. I saw the beautiful fine boned
face, the nice top line, the well rounded full hip, and straight legs.
The filly had a deep calm eye....More..... |
 Preparing
for Foaling. Many of the
horse industries have their mares foaling as close to January 1 as
possible to get the size and maturity needed for their sport. This
results in many “Decembuary” foals, although most barns will never admit
to owning one. The arrival of foals is exciting, but can be heart
wrenching and exhausting as well. It helps to know your mares signs for
foaling, have a foaling kit ready, and know when to call a vet.
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Finding
a Good Farrier
By
Melissa
Brawner;
Finding a good farrier
can be a daunting task to say the least. A good farrier is in
high demand, and usually commands top..
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Introducing
Horses
By Melissa
Brawner
One of my favorite things about having
our farm, is that I get to introduce children to horses.
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Introducing
our horse editor, Melissa Brawner. Enjoy her educational
articles sharing her experience raising horses in Colorado.
The first
article is about "Starting Foals."
"Beginning basic
training sounds a bit extreme with a foal, but it is...
The foal learns
to..... |
 I visited PopUp's head quarters in Chanute Kansas
this spring. Kansas, like Iowa is know for making farm machinery. PopUp
Industries is in the part of Kansas, where generations of
welders understand quality metal working, like the Amish bring
quality to RV manufacturing. What better place to make hitches for American trucks and
trailers. I first heard of PopUp because of their SB1 shortbed coupler
(picture below).
With shortbed trucks, now the most popular configuration, I
hear from folks every week emailing me that they just crunched the cab
of their truck with the corner of their trailer. Now what do they do?
More... |
 QuickBite
Coupler: You'll love this coupler and want to
replace what you have ! I did, No more in and out of
your truck to see how close you are to the trailer or if you're
centered and you know how much fun it is asking for help to back
up. You'll hear QuickBite Coupler snap when it's latches.
It self aligns your trailer ball, automatically latches and
locks. It doesn't get easier or faster. Comes with it's own
alignment rods that stick up over your tailgate to
watch through your rear view mirror.
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  On
the road repair welding. The
military has GOWELD and plasma cutters in many of their Humvees, tanks
and armored personal carriers. GOWELD
is very portable, the wire spool is in the handle. Just clamp
the cables to your trucks batteries, run the hose to a tank of
Argon gas or use coated wire and you're ready to weld anywhere.
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The Best Tranny Pans, Differential, and Valve Covers. |
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  PML knows how to keep
you covered! You hear me complaining about oil
capacity on this website constantly. Now I found a way to add 2 or 3 more
quarts of oil to your tranny and differential. The more oil, the more
cooling ability, the longer your truck will stay out of the shop and on the
road! Pulling trailers builds extra heat in your engine, transmission and
axles. You need extra oil capacity and a cover designed for cooling, not the
stamped flat pans and covers truck manufactures buy 100,000 at a time from
the cheapest bidder. It's up to you to give your truck the longest life.
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SUMMIT HAULER
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  Summit
Hauler M2 Freightliner hauler conversions. Custom wood,
lighting, CB, overhead DVD, camera's, LED's, console, steering
wheel, tool boxes, bed and more. |
 At
the All American Quarter Horse Congress in Ohio, I was doing
circle contests with the Freightliner M2 and the GMC Denali
Quadrasteer. Of course the Quadrasteer won. But when I shut off
the 4-Wheel Steer, the Freightliner M2 won. When means the M2
can turn tighter than just about any truck. |
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Acres of Freightliner M2's with the
Summit Hauler conversion. You won't find a better
selection of hauler trucks for your
big trailers.
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USRider Cautions Horse Owners about Carbon
Monoxide Poisoning.
Lexington, Ky., (Oct. 15, 2007) –
Two children and their grandparents from Tomah, Wis., were
killed by carbon monoxide fumes inside the horse trailer where
they were sleeping the night of Oct. 11. The family runs a
well-known Clydesdale horse-breeding operation called Clay’s
Clydesdales. They were in Madison, Wis., for the World
Clydesdale Show.
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Our EZ-Connector Horse Expo Tour started in Denver
Many
New Horse Trailer Products will be Introduced.
See Pictures
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2008
Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra 1500 Series Trucks Only
Full-Size Pickups With Top Five-Star Side-Impact Safety Rating
DETROIT, Mich. -
The 2008 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 Series pickup
trucks have received the federal government's highest
side-impact crash rating - five stars - making Silverado and
Sierra the industry's only full-size pickups to earn this top
rating. More... |
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USRider Shares Tip with Horse Owners to Avoid
Lockout. With
advancing technology, life continues to become a bit easier.
USRider would like to warn its members about is the potential of
being locked out of a vehicle. This can happen when two very
common technological conveniences get too close – your cell
phone may scramble the electronics in your key fob. Instances of
this scrambling have already been reported with the....read
more...
USRider Reminds Drivers, Dangers of Using Cell
Phones While Driving.
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 Truck Accessories
from the Factory or Aftermarket?
We
can't resist accessorizing trucks to fit our needs as well as our personality.
It's common to spend another $3000 on accessories after we buy the
truck. Trailer hitches, brake controllers,
running boards, as well as performance mods to the engine and
transmission, add up quickly. Top selling accessories are....
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New Truck Repair Technology
comes to Horse Trailers
 If you follow
my articles, you know how big a fan of new technology I am. At the new
Transwest Truck Trailer RV facility, is an
awesome machine called a Road Simulator. Looks kind of like a dyno, but
does use rollers to test brakes rolling resistance and balance. Transwest uses it to test all their new horse trailers so
they are ready for your roads. It can find
just a torn axle seal leaking on the brakes. It would surprise you how
many "new axles" on new trailers are over greased, limiting your trailer
brakes ability. With the kind of traffic we
pull trailers in, testing brakes becomes routine. And worn suspension
maybe be causing your rig to ....More....
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As the
popularity of Living Quarters in Horse Trailers grows, they become more
like RV's, and 5th wheel RV's are converting to more gooseneck type
hitches. |
 Now
there's help for the short-short beds
towing horse trailers and racecar trailers. New from PopUp, the
SB116. The long short bed solution. It's "16" inches
of extension. Before you loose your pickup trucks rear window or
worse, check out the solution. Shortbed trucks are the most
popular. But the trailer manufactures don't know it yet. Finally
backup with the tailgate down and without hitting the propane
tanks.
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 Logan
Coach review, Logan built steel trailers and then in
2004 they added the XT & XTR aluminum skinned horse trailers as
consumer demand for aluminum skin trailers grows. I toured the
Logan factory, seeing new innovations I hadn't seen before. Like
the rod on the drop down windows that you can easily reach no
matter what your height is. Even the slam latches on escape
doors (right) are lower than I've seen on other horse
trailers....More... |
  Transwest Truck Trailer RV,
Visit our new facility on I-25. Large selection of LQ horse
trailers, Haulers and Toterhomes.
Super, full service shop, for trucks,
trailers and RV's. 15 paved acres of trailers & trucks.
More... |
 BrakeSmart,
the
BEST trailer brake controller is back!!! I haven't seen or
tried a better one & would be glad to review all challengers.
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 New
Hart, Cimarron, Logan Coach horse trailers. Large selection of Living
Quarter's. Large
selection of hauler trucks, Freightliner M2, Ford F650, C4500 & bigger.
Call for prices,
1-800-909-7071
Transwest (TrailerWest.com)
Horse Trailer Inventory,
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Top Horse/RV Trailer, Truck &
Accessory Reviews and News |
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 Rollin’
Rollin’ Rollin’ … Keep that Trailer Rolling…’
By Stephen
Louie “Hosspuller”
One
of the worst things to happen with a horse trailer is a
mechanical break down on the road. If you have never been
there, thank your lucky stars. There are... reasons
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 Stop
tire cupping, vibration and
premature wear on those expensive
truck, RV & trailer tires.
Centramatic automatic wheel
balancers have been saving money on
tires for semi-trucks for over
twenty years. Now you can
automatically balance your tires,
wheels, hub and rotors or drums
while you drive. A balanced tire
doesn't cub, vibrates less & lowers
the tire sidewall temperature from
less flexing, giving you longer tire
life. 5 year warranty, made in the
USA.
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  We
camp at Tiger Run in Breckenridge & Circus Circus Koa in Vegas. We installed
Power Vision mirrors,
Hell-Ya
Hitch Helper, Valley Odyssey
brake controller and Truck Bedz. An "off-road" toy
hauler that's made like a tank, you can get to the prime remote
locations for 4-wheeling or just a HQ for
outdoor adventure.
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Read my
Weight Distributing
Hitch article. WDH is common with RV
travel trailers as they should be will most
bumper pull trailers. This is an important
subject for trailer safety to have the best
control for a trailer that has leverage on
your truck or SUV .
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New Trailer
Safety brochure from
NHTSA:
Click here to order yours.
Remember my formula for pulling a trailer, that the
Truck or SUV's Wheelbase
+ Width + it's
Weight = degree of
Control of the Trailer. Safety equals
matching truck to trailer.
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NEW and Improved
You're going to love this newly redesigned
PopUp 2 Hitch.
Smoother acting and
trouble free. They've made the best hitch even better.
One pull of the handle to
raise the ball is all it will take to convince you that this is the
hitch you want. Simply pull the rod to raise the ball and push
to lower it from the wheelwell of
your truck.
More
info....
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 Transwest
Truck Trailer RV,
selling Hart, Cimarron and Logan horse
trailers.
Whether you are
new to horse trailers & need some extra help
or you're a veteran and want the best
trailers, you owe it to yourself to visit
Andrew Lyons and his crew of horse folks.
Buy your horse trailer & truck together or
separate and get the right advice on
matching your needs the first time.
New &
Used Trailers--Trucks
made for Towing--Trailer
Repair & Upgrade--Truck Performance
Products.
Read more about where
MrTruck asks trailer questions.
Call Andrew Lyons
1-800-909-7071 email
alyons@transwest.com
TrailerWest.com
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