Stock hauler. Will this work?

[Kingfisher]

I will try and post a picture tomorrow. There is a what looks like the pipe top frame from a
goose neck cattle hauler at the auction barn. I think i have a flat bed steel floor trailer i can " latch" this to
and have a decent stock trailer for way less than I can buy one today new. The fires in Texas have really gobbled up the stock trailers and I really don't want to spend that much ( $3500 plus) on a trailer that will probably spend a lot of time as yard art. This " top frame" with a nice rear door looks like it will sit on my car hauler without much work. I am worried about fender clearance since I have not put a tape on it yet. If it do not bid high it might be worth the effort. I can quick release pin it and have a dual purpose trailer is what I am thinking. Anybody every pulled the top frame from a goose neck and recycled it other thAN for scrap metal? Thanks in advance

 

[Angus Cowman]

I will try and post a picture tomorrow. There is a what looks like the pipe top frame from a
goose neck cattle hauler at the auction barn. I think i have a flat bed steel floor trailer i can " latch" this to
and have a decent stock trailer for way less than I can buy one today new. The fires in Texas have really gobbled up the stock trailers and I really don't want to spend that much ( $3500 plus) on a trailer that will probably spend a lot of time as yard art. This " top frame" with a nice rear door looks like it will sit on my car hauler without much work. I am worried about fender clearance since I have not put a tape on it yet. If it do not bid high it might be worth the effort. I can quick release pin it and have a dual purpose trailer is what I am thinking. Anybody every pulled the top frame from a goose neck and recycled it other thAN for scrap metal? Thanks in advance

a few companies used to build a combination trailer where the racks came off and you put boards between the fender rails and you had a flatbed maybe that is what you are seeing a removable rack off of one of those trailers
a friend has a Neckover Brand that was built that way and I know a few others companies did it as well

 

[jedstivers]

If trailors are short in Texas then go elsewhere. They are not short anywhere else.

 

[Brute 23]

They make galv tops that slide in flat bed trailers. Have all the gates and every thing.

http://rangergate.com/trailer_insert.htm

 

[baleflipper]

The sides on cattle trailers are realy part of the frame. They are like trusses. Putting loose Racks on a flat bed will work but not for heavy use. These type trailers have been tried many times over the years. The original Gooseneck trailers were built in Bryan college station in the early 60s. The people that designed them knew structural design. If the Trailers are kept clean they last many years,I have a 1980 model that is still sound.
I would consult them or Call PJ trailers in Paris Texas area. There are over 200 trailer manufactures in the Paris Texas area.
Gooseneck has been sold but they are still in Bryan,Neck Over is in Troup Texas,near Jacksonvile. Any of these folks can help. Magnum in Austin builds a cheap light trailer.

 

[circlew]

Kingfisher- I would just buy a good used trailer. It'll sale better if you want to get rid of it. If you just pin a slide in on a car hauler you've got a couple 50 cent pins to get a couple thousand dollars worth of cows to the barn with no problems. One accident and you could and would have wished you had bought a real trailer.