Mechanical vs Hydraulic Goose Neck trailers.

I don't know of any detach that like to work on uneven ground non ground bearing would be the most forgiving

 

I prefer pony motor over a wet kit on truck. Pony motor can operate with any truck you put under it. Wet kits that I have had or seen ALWAYS has a leak of some kind. Electric sucks in cold weather, because you can't start it and let it run to warm up the hydraulics like a pony motor. The pony motor I have on mine is 5 yrs old. Still going strong. Change oil 4 times a year and fresh air filter and sparkplug once a year. Also the 13 hp Honda handles the hydraulics better than the 11 hp do.

 

Yeah that's what I saw when I looked at a Keen truck. That pic I posted is from google images, I did it from my phone I searched 24volt hydraulic pump and the one I posted is an 110/220 electric motor. We used to have a ramp trailer that ran on one but it was 12 volt it looked just like a starter.

 

How do you think an electric would hold up in the Texas heat?

Just long term dreaming, if I were to buy an rgn that ran off a wet kit and had a truck with no wet kit, would an electric motor be the cheapest way to get rolling?

What would need to be done to install either a pony motor or electric onto a trailer that didn't have one?

 

I think it would, you would have to dig a little deeper. The one we had only ran when we were using the hydraulics, it didn't run continuously but it was 12 volt and it was just lifting ramps. I'm not sold on it just food for thought.

 

I would say probably ok unless you were going to use it multiple times a day. I installed mine on my trailer in a few hours with quick disconnect fittings to the hydro lines that were already there.

 

Wet system only makes sense if your also looking to run dump/live floor with the truck...

 

Did your truck at ALL have a wet kit like mine does where just the pump is on the truck and the tanks are all mounted on the trailers?