Nice trailer and good explanation on why you decided the way you did. Being able to work on the trailer yourself is a huge plus. I think you have been taking it to easy on your intern, her nails look awful nice, not working her hard enough.
With stock trailers it always depends on what you want to do with it. If you’re going to be bouncing through rough pastures steel will hold up much better than aluminum. If all you’ll be putting on it miles on good paved road aluminum works better for that. I say this as a rancher that’s been around both kinda of trailers. My neighbors would all say the same thing. Unfortunately aluminum doesn’t take pasture abuse very well.
@@TheFarmingLife I’m in the Sandhills of Nebraska and even with all the sand some of the pasture roads we have to bounce down get pretty rough. Steel holds up a lot better out in our part of the country
i have a 24' foot that i rebuilt myself and it was a lot of work to do it right. two key things i have done to mine on the repair, was repair the rusted tin/steel out with SS bottom skirt on the inside and found out that horse stall rubber mats work the best on the floor. Also one key thing i do to mine is it gets washed out after every use when we get back. it is easier to clean when it is fresh.
The only differences between the steel vs aluminum trailer we bought was the aluminum trailer was 2000 pounds lighter, and $8,000 dollars more in price. Plus the aluminum trailers have the tendency to crack around the back doors when we are hauling up and down the mountain roads to the summer range
Nice to see Hannah. Aluminum is fine if you can repair it yourself. I think you made the right decision by going with the steel. Keep up the good work.
I think that you made the right decision with the steel trailer. Even if you used it 5 days a week steel may rust but you can fix it yourself. You can weld on it to fix it and paint your repair
Aluminum fatigues and can snap off out of nowhere whereas steel would just bend. If you were hauling every day, aluminum would have been a better choice, but you made a good decision based on your use case.
Personally I'm not a fan of Aluminum. From what I've worked with if a weld cracks it's more prone to cracking in the future! Steel will hold up better and longer.
Here you generally want to keep them in a shed and boxed in otherwise you tend to get them borrowed permanently by opportunists, a neighbour had his pinched of the back of his truck after he stopped by the farm office to pick up the passports for the cows he was moving came back out went to climb in the truck and realised the trailer was gone
I bit the bullet and purchased an aluminum stock trailer in 2013. Happy so far, but, I would have been just as happy with a steel. I don’t feel it’s a whole lot lighter...pulls kind of heavy I think. Oh well...I’m easily pleased. Enjoy your new trailer. The cows won’t care whether it’s steel or aluminum. 😁😁
We farm in Nebraska and we are big into cattle we've had the same aluminum cattle trailer for about 25 years and just got a aluminum stock trailer last year I think they are worth the money
We have a trailer just like that and it rusted fast they didn’t paint behind that bars on the outside and we couldn’t get the nuts off of the studs so we would never go back to that brand
Ryan, a quick tip for the new trailer. Put your foot on the base of the spring when you release the pressure the Jack pressure. It will be much easier on the jack and make certain you never get your finger caught in there when it releases. It Llooks awesome and so does the hood.
I think you made the correct choice! Steel holds up strength wise over a longer period of time from my experience. I do not know if you are considering adding a 3rd axel to help haul heavier loads so DOT does not flag you.
Thanks for the update, for the operation you guys have it sounds like the steel trailer was the best way to go. Rocket looked like he was suffering from a bout of severe depression when he was in the cab of your truck 😂
I think it all depends on the purchaser if your going to be hauling a lot it would be better to go aluminium but if your only going to use it a few times a year steel would be the best route to go
This was our thought process too. Aluminum will hold up better over the road but steel will be a better choice for less usage and frequent off-road visits.
Nice trailer and yah run that hood looks good. Its funny u pull up the drive way at the main farm and i can still see the where the stave silo was lol. Hope u find where its built somebody. Cant wait for the next video Ryan have a good one
I was in the same boat as you last year with my semi. I bought it about 5 years ago, it was an old cheap truck but a great way to get started driving truck (I had no experience either when I started). Did the same thing as you... bough one and learned as I went. After about 4 years, it was really nickel and diming me. I decided to bite the bullet and buy one about 20 years newer, way less miles, and a much nicer cab and options. Not to mention it looked better and drove a LOT better. It was the best decision I made. I got more out of my old truck than I paid for it, so all in all it only cost me about $15k to trade up to a much nicer rig. I know everyone's farming operation and financial priorities are different, but for me it was tough call but I have no regrets whatsoever about the upgrade. Keep up the great videos
Thought question why would you need a 24' trailer for less than 75 cows we had 140/160 cows. We used a 14' then upgraded to a 16' one. Our moves with with cows were anywhere from 6/8 miles the auction marts were 45km to 32km. Not a problem I could understand if you were custom hauling.
Channels like this are why I spend my time on RU-vid. Being able to fix the machines by yourself is a big money saver. This traier is gonna look really nice on the upcoming videos.
we have a 2013 all aluminum Adams Trailer and it still looks new and very easy to clean plus we keep it under a shelter when not in use. it also weights less and easier to pull. Plus the resale value is better.
Perfect purchase, it fits your budget and what your looking to use it for aluminum is nice but I agree too high priced for occasional use, it is good for some people, you just have to find something that fits what you need it for.
Ryan. I sent you a message before that the hood should be able to be fixed and you “GOT it Done “ Ryan you should put a Moose catcher on the front from Canada. Those things just push deer and moose and then the trucks run over them. Seen it happened driving across Winnipeg at night blood all over the road and dead deer. That is the way it is in Canada
I’ve been a trailer mechanic for 5 years now and i can say that if you constantly (and i mean after every use) clean it all out and paint anything that may have a scratch or missing paint, steel will last 15-20 years. However aluminum takes no maintenance and will easily last the same. The best trailer i know of is a Gore horse trailer. Steel frame aluminum body. It’s expensive but I’ve seen 40 year old gore horse trailers selling for the price of new stock trailers just because they hold value so much.
Ryan, early on you said that a new after market hood would cost "twelve fifty". Well I thought that meant 1,250, it was only when you said a used hood might cost 24 hundred that I realised that your your "twelve fifty" was (probably) 12,500. Then at the end you said the new trailer cost "twelve five", well I was fairly sure that was 12,500. I do hate to appear to be nit picking, but the original "twelve fifty" was somewhat vague to this Scotsman.
Hey Ryan, I think you guys made a great choice on the trailer. I was thinking about something though, can you spray the floor of the trailer with a bed liner to keep the poop and muck from rusting out the corners/floor? I know they have do it your self kits- just an idea... Great to see Big Red back together again. Spring planting is just around the corner. Take care and be safe :)
Aluminum if your running highway most of the time. Steel for rough roads and in and out of fields alot. Every Aluminum we ever had cracked all to pieces at the welds
Aluminum is lighter means you can haul more cattle. A real commercial truck body shop can rebuild those hoods and I'm not talking about truck country.... they dont make money unless the sell you a new hood
Totally agree. Aluminum are really nice but more money and more money to repair. Guys say they don't break or rust but those are the guys that trade them off every 3 years lol. To be honest steel isn't a whole lot heavier unless it's a REAL INDUSTRY'S or a NORBERT. Those pull real heavy but very sturdy built!!
Oh a good week or 2 ago, i told Travis about my Aluma-Line 30ft. 7.6 inches wide, 3 axel. I would of sold it for $24,400. I sent him a e-mail. Electric over hydraulic brakes. With new copper / stainless brake line in put on it. Others rusted out in 4 years. These are for Life. 3 brand new tires on it, other 3 are half, lets say, Spare, 2 jack stands. I just used it for my own hauling / small farm. I retired from the cattle business. That trailer /steel, looks like a piece of junk already, sorry to say. 17.5 inch wheels, 16 ply tires. Load range H. I overhauled the brakes, when i got done using it in the winter of 2018. Not used since. The rear hinges, 5 of them for the gate, i took pins out, sanded them & anti seize them. Caledonia, MN area. Not that far from you guys.
Just one more tip for you that we’ve found in out stock trailers: all of them have wood floors and putting in stall mats greatly increases the life of the floor. At least in steel trailers that is.
I've got stall mats in my cattle trailer and after 8 years the wood underneath still looks brand new. I do make a point to power wash the trailer after every time I use it, and that includes pulling the mats out and washing the wood floor underneath.
Malik's brother's sister's cousin never said anything about fixing hoods. Not to be confused with Malik's sister's brother's cousin, but Malik's Cousin's sister's brother will.
You are welcome to your opinion and what works best for your operation but totally disagree. I have owned aluminum goosenecks for over 30 years all of them Eby Ruff Necks ZERO issues and amazing resale. None of the door issues you spoke of. Not many steel cattle pots left on the road so all those guys can’t be wrong. I’m sure a lot of bull haulers would disagree with your comment concerning aluminum being a poor flooring choice.
The old steel trailer seemed to be rusted out at the bottom where manure and urine could get to it. It might be a good investment to have the lower half of the walls and about 6 inches out on the floor, sprayed with bed liner. Especially heavy into the area where the wall meets the floor. Another investment, but still less overall than an aluminum trailer. 😎
I would say whatever suits the farm and application the majority of small trailers here are aluminium but unless you go an expensive route we're limited to generally 3.5ton(ne) that you can pull with the 25ft+ tractor trailers it is more mixed usually though it's aluminium with sheep decks or steel with cattle but you're again limited to about 20ton(ne). HGV lorries and they are all mostly steel or at least steel framed, I would second the washing out when fresh even if it's on the majority of the muck but spending an hour washing out the majority on one panel because a State Vet is sure a stain is actually fresh poop during a disease out break kind of does that to you. Also though who say aluminium doesn't corrode it does it just appears white and powdery.
the guy that moves my live stock, like today, went and picked up 2 cows with calves, his trailer is aluminum, every time he gets stuck there is no place strong enough to hook a chain to, to pull him back words , you have to some how fish a chain under it and hook on to a spring. then the chain is trying to lift the back of the trailer off the ground from the long span from the back to a spring or sling one of the wheels witch then cant turn, it a huge pain, every time, he had the in side hings brake a few times as well as the back door slid and hing side brake, the trailer only 3 years old, but you can wash it and unless you busf it all the time, it looks crappy from the coronation you get on aluminum, like a boat, add in road salt in winter and it looke even worse, he says if he wanted to keep it looking nice he would have to spend hours buffing it after every use
My own preference is aluminum livestock trailer; just like the looks of aluminum compared to the steel trailers; I know looks over being practical? As for corrosion: if you do not clean them out after each use they all will corroded; even the aluminum. Just like using the aluminum grain shovels as a dairy barn gutter shovel; in which they last about a year.
Put pete Hood on there truck double its value sorry up grade ya shakers are shakers find a good cab over 😆 farmer's all had them back in the day ya find good deals just make sure if big fleets buy. 500 make sure about 500k is when they trade pretty good lotta automatics seen ya shift 😆 sorry we all learn but alot of good used trucks out there right now just sayin
great video ryan steel is a good way to go cause if needed you can weld on it if needed what sucks will rust in the long run but as along as you keep up the matinace you be just fine very nice trailer and the new hood for big red looks great if you were to get anouther semi witch one wood you go with new used what make and model ruffly thumbs up and shared
HOW MUCH IS YOUR DIESEL LEAKING MAN????IF ITS LESS THAN A GALLON A DAY ITS NEGLIGIBLE. BIG DIESELS PUSH FLUID OUT EVERY DAY. TOP IT OFF AND KEEP ROLING...
With all the companies that sponsor your channel, maybe you should get Peterbilt to give you a new truck to use! Peterbilt and tempte could get a lot of sales from your channel!!
Steel is much easier maintained. Break something, weld it yourself amd hit it with some spray paint. Only hauling a few times a year? Powerwash it out and that thing will last 20 years easy.
Ryan i like the new trailer nothing wrong with steel And if you are thinking about upgrading big red don't go volvo they have alot of issues i drive 2 hauling milk tank trailers go with kenworth, peterbilt or international . if you go with mack get a model before volvo bought them how about an R model maybe wes pandys if he has not sold it yet you know it is been rebuilt and well taken care of 😀
Nice job on the truck hood! Steel is in my opinion is better you can always weld it up if any repairs are needed .. not that you can’t weld aluminum.. but steel is much easier..
Steel is much better if you are in it for hauling, if you are in it for show then get the shiney one. My dad's steel trailer is 30 years old and we only have replaced the floor twice. Bulls try to tear it up but can't.
Had to pause and look at time remaining Thought yeah still plenty o time to frighten up yer fingers Trying to adjust the hood with many eager helping hands Good job no lacerations or amputations Been there
