dvb668w

dvb668w

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Hi,
I’m thinking of buying a Sankey trailer to use with my Ser landy… ok not a problem there but the issue is most that are for sale at a half descent price are miles away…..

So the question is,

Can you invert a drop plate on a CAR tow bar and attach a nato hitch to tow a empty Sankey trailer?
(Ill use a trailer board to cover the military wiring)

Thanks Andy
 
borrow a car trailer and put it on that.

Round here i can rent one for £40 a day i think.
 
I have exactly the same issue in that I need to pick up a Sankey trailer with my car as it's on my way home from work and there's no way I can take my Landy. As far as weight and capacity is concerned this is well within the car's limits and I have no issue fitting the NATO hitch to my car. My concern is how much ground clearance I'll have from the bottom of the Sankey chassis when it's hitched.
Has anyone on here done this and how close is it?
I do appreciate that it will be quite an angle and it makes it nose heavy although it will only be towed empty to get it home.
I'm also not in favour of inverting a drop plate, hence the question over ground clearance.
Just in case anyone needs the trailer model it's a Mk2 wide track.
 
it wont tow......you'll scrape the base along the ground unless you raise the nato hitch to fender height!

Don't be a moron, take the landy
 
That's what I was trying to find out, wasn't sure of the chassis height. Taking the Landy to work isn't an option so I might need a separate trip.
Is your reply based on fact or is it just an opinion as you're keen to call me a moron without knowing what knowledge or experience I already have.
 
my reply is based on the fact that you're going to have to put a hitch on a car that isn't designed for it and use a home made set up.......

you're also going to have a hitch raised over a foot past where its meant to be on a piece of sheet steel with a large trailers weight acting upon it and no back bracing for said hitch.

Theres a reason people tow these with landrovers and other similar height 4x4's
 
I did it to bring home a Sankey with my Disco .. but that was a proper drop plate and receiver hitch, simply inverted. That brought the Nato hitch to the right height. I seriously doubt a normal car would ever be safe to do the same, the trailer simply wouldn't ride correctly and would be ripe for a tug .. and rightly so!

As said, hire a trailer, or pay someone the diesel and a beer or three to fetch it for you.
 
Why can't you take the landy to work?

Also if they are miles away, go in the landy, potter along, stopping for a brew now and again and make a day of it :)
 
I drove for 17 hours yesterday with my Sankey......**** Southern drivers crashing everywhere turned a 10 hour trip into 17
 
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