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[which_chick]

The nice people at the trailer place are putting a gooseneck ball hitch in the bed of my large, green pickup truck. This is so that I will be able to haul around a gooseneck horse trailer, should I ever manage to find one that offendeth me not at a reasonable price.



Gooseneck horse trailers turn in shorter distances than bumper pull horse trailers. They also ride better (usually) than bumper pull trailers. They have neat overhead storage space that's big enough for a human to sleep in, if the human is pretty determined and not very interested in actual sleep. They have better resale value than bumper pull trailers. It's going to be a gooseneck horse trailer.

The problem with gooseneck horse trailers is that they figure you need to haul, along with your horse, a kitchenette, a queen-size bed, a changing room, a portapotty, and a shower. (I only wish I were kidding.) Yer average fancy three-horse slant-load gooseneck trailer costs (used) more than I make in a year. What I want, really, is a metal box on wheels for moving my horse around.

I do not care if there's tack space. I have the gooseneck area for tack space and the amount of tack I have can be secured there with minimal effort. If I'm only hauling my horse and I have a trailer with dividers, I also have the other part of the trailer where I can stash tack. (Not that I'm ever one for TMI, but horses don't generally like to pee in trailers... so, er, flooding should not be a problem.) For local (non-camping) trips with multiple passengers, I have the bed of the truck for tack space. Tack space is the least of my worries.

I do not need or want a dressing room. Dressing rooms make the trailer longer (and harder to turn and park). Also, I can change all of my clothing from the skin out while standing on a clean feed sack in the back of the horse trailer. I have no shame and anyone who wants to peer inside a horse trailer to look at my glaringly white thighs is welcome to the dubious pleasure that such an effort might provide.

I do not need a queen-sized bed. I can sleep in the overhead of the horse trailer, having cleaned it out of tack after arriving wherever the hell it might be that I am going. An inflatable air mattress and some good-sized carpet remnants will dress up the gooseneck space right nicely. (Yes, I fit in the gooseneck space of an average square-front gooseneck trailer. Stretched out, even. They're six feet wide. I am five feet and seven inches long. It's not a problem.)

I want a gooseneck trailer with minimal bullshit space, just a pretty plain fucking trailer, for hauling my horse around. I do not think that this is an excessive want. I would like it very much to cost less than five thousand dollars and have a clear PA title. It does not have to be new. It does not have to be a slant load. It could be a very stock-like trailer indeed.

Fortunately, the winter is a good time to shop for horse trailers. It's the off season.

Comments

you could try to use the conversion to your advantage

[agoucher.livejournal.com]

And shop north of the border. There is for instance Jensen (http://216.223.162.33/onesite/publishsite/index.cfm?pagename=mainpage_template&client_id=jensen&tablename=news&link_id=12114967&linkname=CM%20%2D%20Standardbred%20%2F%20Racetrack) trailers up near us that meets some of your requirements.