Weight

[Bucolic]

Can anyone tell me what a M151 A1, with a ROPS installed weighs? There's not a truck scale anywhere close to me. I plan to buy a trailer to haul my 151 and I don't want to overload it. I want to get enough trailer but I want to keep it as small as possible.

[m75]

There is a CAT scale facility closeby in Sun Valley. Located on Lankershim Blvd between San Fernando Rd to the north and I-5 to the south. You could drive there easily.

[Mark]

2442 lbs for the mutt, ROPS--200 lbs

[rickf]

Even the smallest tandem axle trailer will handle the M-151 but if you are thinking of going to a single axle trailer keep in mind front to rear weight distribution and how you are going to load it. Any single axle trailer used for a vehicle has to be pretty much custom built for that particular vehicle.

[Bucolic]

OK, I ended up buying a single axle, ten foot flatbed with a 2,900lb. rated load capacity. Only cost me $2,200. I still need to get my jeep up on it and set up my tie downs. And it fits through the gate, barely.

[m3a1]

You had better double check those tire ratings on your trailer tires.

[rickf]

What TJ said about the tires. I am guessing it is on a 3500 lb. axle and that rating is the cargo weight? That would put the trailer at only 600 lbs.. that sounds like a very lightweight trailer. Also sounds like you spent far too much money!!! I can buy a 7,000 lb. tandem 18 feet long for 3800.00! Brand new. You are going to find that loading a vehicle onto a single axle trailer is like trying to run the teeter-totter at the truck games. As you try to get on the trailer it is going to want to lift the rear of the tow vehicle off the ground. Then once you get it up there you have NO margin for error and also no margin to adjust your tongue weight, which is critical. I am thinking that trailer is not heavy enough for that vehicle. The weight you gave might be the gross weight of the trailer. What size are the tires? Not trying to talk you out of something you want but I do not want to see you get into a bad situation here. As I said, there is NO new single axle trailer out there on the market that will handle a car, only custom built ones specifically made for the vehicle it is towing.

[m3a1]

Not to mention, you start with only ONE tire per side and when that one goes flat, things are going to get real interesting, real fast. However you choose to do it, SAFETY FIRST!