drop-deck trailers for hire in the UK?

[Justme]

Most American ones use air suspension I believe. I can't really say about weather that be legal in the UK but I doubt it.

Virtually all lorries have them.

 

[Justme]

I've been trying to imagine how you'd hydraulically/electrically do the lift thing.

I think if I was doing it I would make the axle slide back & forward on a slope section.
Even if it failed mid move its totally safe.

Only other big unknown for me is suspension capacity type stuff. It's hard to test for a 1T weight without having 1T test weights. Leaf springs seem to be the way, but choosing and sizing them? I must admit,

You buy them in weight rated sets.

 

[Robbie260]

Virtually all lorries have them.

Yes but lorries have the air supply to start with and they fail safe even if the air bag fails they are supported by the axel and its Bumpstop before it hits the ground. I'm not entirely sure how that is built into the drop deck car trailers I have seen but there must be some way of doing it.

 

[6ply]

Is it lifting it on to collect or lifting it off when you get home or both that's the challenge?

I have used my local builder merchant a few times to pick stuff into a trailer with their hiab, few quid for their tea fund and makes life easy

Flat bed car trailer is another option, if you have skates you could winch it up, done similar picking up a J&S 540

When my FIL sold his BP mill, we stripped the head and table off it, lifted it with an engine crane and reversed the trailer under it

Good luck

Apologies for resurrecting an old post, but I'm considering doing the same with a Bridgeport. Any idea what it would weigh minus the head and table? Under 700 kg or is that being hopeful?

 

[James1979]

Apologies for resurrecting an old post, but I'm considering doing the same with a Bridgeport. Any idea what it would weigh minus the head and table? Under 700 kg or is that being hopeful?

@fizzy willl know if think

Resurrection has led me into a wormhole and I’ve downloaded this

https://www.knottuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Trailer_Lowering_Systems.pdf

Need to build a new trailer so it looks like it’s going to be a lowering one

 

[fizzy]

Apologies for resurrecting an old post, but I'm considering doing the same with a Bridgeport. Any idea what it would weigh minus the head and table? Under 700 kg or is that being hopeful?

Complete they weigh about 950kg.
We can ship them through our pallet networks if palletised properly. That's how I moved mine. Will just go on a tail lift.
Yes I would think 700kg minus head and table but they are very heavy to move.
PM me if you want pallet shipping details.
A lot easier than messing about

 

[6ply]

After I posted my question I found these BP component weights. Removing the head and table would make a big difference. Head needs work anyway.

 

[indy4x]

Apologies for resurrecting an old post, but I'm considering doing the same with a Bridgeport. Any idea what it would weigh minus the head and table? Under 700 kg or is that being hopeful?

Dunno, I have lifted a Bridgeport into the back of a Transit van

Head and table were removed, lifted with an engine crane and the reversed the Transit rather than try and push the engine crane