Re: What do you use for transport?

I've got a Ranger double cab pick up truck - 4 bales of hay fit in back too without messing the cab interior!

Good value for money to buy used and they hold their value, and tax is same as an estate car. I'd rather have a small lorry but the small amount I'd use it doesn't warrant it.

Re: What do you use for transport?

I've heard freelanders are pretty rubbish. Any one know about Nissan X-Trails, Honda CRV, or Suzuki grand vitara, they're more in my price range...

I think a lorry would be too pricey, its just another vehicle to tax, mot, service etc, and not really worth it for the amount I'd use it.

Re: What do you use for transport?

 We've just got an Ifor Williams 510 (the bigger one) and my friends ford ranger truck tows that with 2 large horses in really well, she also uses it to tow her very large equitek and has never had a prob. I'm lucky as my mum has a massive Toyota Land Crusier which we borrow so means no expensive 4x4 for me to insure :) You can't even tell your towing anything with that beast lol. The upsides to trailer are the fact you dont have to pay tax, mot etc. However if you were to use it enough then a lorry is a lovely luxury :) 

Re: What do you use for transport?

I swopped from a discovery and trailer to a lorry due to having 3 horses 3 years ago. If you have a trailer and 4 x 4 make sure that the weight of your towing vehicle unladen is more than the weight of your trailer fully laden. I was stopped by dept of transport nazis and they were very strict on the weight of my discovery and had i been over the limit were quite prepared to impound my vehicle and trailer until i have unloaded some of the weight from the trailer. 

You also need the extra weight in your towing vehicle to ensure you can stop in the event of an emergency, a fully laden trailer that needs to be stopped suddenly will cause untold damage and upset (for all concerned) if the vehicle towing it cant stop it in sufficient time!

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My husband is a mechanic and he has nothing positive or repeatable to say about landrovers in general, but particularly freelanders!  He also says that the newer freelander models do not have the legal amount of brake power to tow horses and are best left to mobile hairdressers!  We have an Isuzu trooper and it really is a workhorse, we use it to pull a Bateson trailer and our horses are all now over 16hh, the largest being 16.3.  We also have a Mercedes Atego lorry which we converted ourselves, it used to be a delivery lorry for a furniture company so we had to stall it and fit it ourselves which is much cheaper than buying one ready  done but you do need to know what you're about.