Rayco dealer question

[murphy4trees]

Anyone out there tight with a Rayco dealer???
I need to know the dealer cost of a trailer for the RG-50.... Facts not fiction please....
Post or email me...
Thanks,
Daniel

 

[Lumberjack]

Hey I can find out. I have an RG 50 and I can ask my dealer in Jackson monday.

We paid like 30 ish for the trailer and the grinder 5 years ago and 40-45ish for the RG85

Carl

 

[treeman82]

Have you looked into a utility / landscape trailer as opposed to the Rayco trailer? Probably cost about the same, and the utility trailer can be used for other things besides the grinder.

 

[Lumberjack]

We considered getting a utility trailer 5 years agoand I am glad that we didn't. Rayco's trailer is the best way to go IMO. You drice the machine on the trailer, put up the 2 ramps and put the pin in the front and take off. On a utility trailer you would have to have at least 2 chains and binders because the RG 50 is pretty tippy with the outer wheels removed and isn't great with both sets on the back. It wouldn't be a good deal on that 400 dollar trailer when a little kid runs out in front of you, you swerve to mis him and the machine flips off and kills his pregnat mother. (A little extreme)

Carl

 

[Stumper]

Yes, SOOOOOO simple. I built a skid to go in the back of my truck. the Rg12 rolls up and drops into its slot-There are chocks in the front to keep from rolling it to far forward, a low (1.5")bar at the rear that I can pull it over to unload but provides stability-holding things against the front chocks. Side bars cradle the tire sidewalls. The Cutter wheel rests on a piece of Hackberry.screwed on the front extension of the skid. At the rear I have an extension with a pivoting piece of angle iron and a hitchpin, The piece pivots up past center (angling forward) and the pin goes through the handle adjustment flange. I've logged over 100,000 stable miles with that simple system. unclip one pin and pivot the brace down and you can unload/load. With the pin in place it stays right where it is supposed to be.