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<blockquote data-quote="DLD" data-source="post: 1402082" data-attributes="member: 19707"><p>I'd pick #3 as the best buy, but depending on where you are and how you use a trailer #1 may suit some folks better. Given a choice I won't pick a Sundowner, I'm just not a fan. I have both a steel bar top (w/ tarp) and an aluminum, but I use them differently. Our aluminum is our "show" trailer - my kids show steers and heifers and we do it a lot. The only thing extra on it is tie rails and extra lights and rubber mats - nothing that keeps it from being a fully functional cow trailer, but we keep it clean and some of our tack loaded most of the time. When we're showing every weekend, it's worth having one ready to go. Occasionally if we need to, we will clean the tack out and haul cows in it, and it works very well for that, too. </p><p></p><p>The bar top is our "cow" trailer, we use it for pretty much everything but showing. I pull it to the salebarn I work at every week, plus a lot more (200 miles a week, minimum). Personally I like it better most of the time. The aluminum is actually cooler because aluminum doesn't hold heat like steel does (grab hold of both on a 110 degree day and see what I mean), but comparing the trailers pictured the steel would obviously have more airflow. The aluminum pulls a little better, uses a little less fuel, but that difference is small in my experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DLD, post: 1402082, member: 19707"] I'd pick #3 as the best buy, but depending on where you are and how you use a trailer #1 may suit some folks better. Given a choice I won't pick a Sundowner, I'm just not a fan. I have both a steel bar top (w/ tarp) and an aluminum, but I use them differently. Our aluminum is our "show" trailer - my kids show steers and heifers and we do it a lot. The only thing extra on it is tie rails and extra lights and rubber mats - nothing that keeps it from being a fully functional cow trailer, but we keep it clean and some of our tack loaded most of the time. When we're showing every weekend, it's worth having one ready to go. Occasionally if we need to, we will clean the tack out and haul cows in it, and it works very well for that, too. The bar top is our "cow" trailer, we use it for pretty much everything but showing. I pull it to the salebarn I work at every week, plus a lot more (200 miles a week, minimum). Personally I like it better most of the time. The aluminum is actually cooler because aluminum doesn't hold heat like steel does (grab hold of both on a 110 degree day and see what I mean), but comparing the trailers pictured the steel would obviously have more airflow. The aluminum pulls a little better, uses a little less fuel, but that difference is small in my experience. [/QUOTE]
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