trailer towing for a 46 v8

I occasionally pull a custom made 5x10 ft trailer made of 4" channel that carries 5 hit and miss engines. Estimated weight is 2500 maybe 3000 lbs. The truck is a 49 stock F-1 6 cylinder with a 3.73 rear. It pulls capably but I anticipate stops. Trailer has electric brakes, but no hookup on the truck.
 

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Old Henry said:
One thing I learned by sad experience with surge brakes (on a boat trailer). You can not back up a hill with them. The slope of the hill applies the brakes and the harder you try to back up the harder the brakes are applied.:(
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All the ones I have ever seen, had a hole in the tongue that you put a pin in to lock the moving parts together. Put the pin in and you have no brakes. Back up all you want.
 
Torchie said:
Hey Brendan.
Looks like a shot from the Lucy and Desi movie "The long, long traier Trailer"
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Right on. My second favorite comedy (second only to "What About Bob?").
The trailer in the film was a 3+ ton 36-foot 1953 New Moon that cost $5,345.00 at the time. The trailer was built at the New Moon Homes trailer factory in Alma, Michigan. The car was a 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible with a flathead V8 engine that put out 125 hp at 3700 RPM. For those that haven't seen the movie, the full weight of the trailer tongue was not on the car's trailer hitch. It was on a "slip dolly" that was essentially a free castering set of wheels on a small axle that carried the tongue weight of the trailer. It had a coupler that hooked to the ball on the back of the car so no load equalizer bars were needed; the car simply pulled the trailer, it didn't bear any of its weight. The slip dolly carried the weight. In several scenes in the movie you can see the dolly in action as the car pulls the trailer down the road. (See in last hill climb picture below.) During the scenes of pulling the trailer in the mountains, the 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible was replaced with a larger but similar appearing 1953 Lincoln Capri convertible. The distinct Lincoln grille is clearly evident in a shot as the car rounds a curve. The more powerful Lincoln (which was equipped with a 205 HP V8 engine) was needed to pull the heavy New Moon trailer up and over the steep grades of the Sierra Nevadas where the scenes were filmed. The dangerous mountain road featured in the movie is Whitney Portal Road which leads up to Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. The Owens Valley is seen from the hairpin turn featured in the film. It was always amazing to me to watch that huge trailer being pulled by a convertible. Hard to believe. I don't think I'd try towing that one with my '47.:(

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Pete said:
All the ones I have ever seen, had a hole in the tongue that you put a pin in to lock the moving parts together. Put the pin in and you have no brakes. Back up all you want.
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All the trailers i have built that i installed hydraulic brakes on had an overide also. Marv
 
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