A short story and pictures from a newbie.

hi and welcome

welcome Busta
the roll cage is meant to go on the Jimny not of the trailer :S

looks good, how do you get the dumpy bag off - simply drag of using brute force?

like the concept, could maybe winch dumpy bags on to it ?

but dumpty bag of "stuff" = tonne = so that;s too much for a Jimny is that right ? :S confused
is is right we can only tow 300 kg

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Halford wrote: is is right we can only tow 300 kg

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only if the trailer is unbraked

Thank you all for the friendly welcome.

Halford; The bags are raised and lowered onto the ground using a hand winch. The trailer floor is taken out and the back of the trailer detaches so you can drive clear of the lowered bag. No brute force needed! The bags are 1 cubic meter- almost twice the capacity of a 'dumpy bag', but as logs aren't nearly as heavy as sand or gravel a full bag weighs between 350-450kg.

The trailer is un-braked and weighs up to 550kg with a bag full of logs, so it's over the Jimny's un-braked limit but tows fine thanks to the long drawbar and good balance. All the weight is concentrated in a small area over the axle, with a nose weight of about 25kg. This trailer is the first prototype. Mk2, which I will be building soon, will be braked.

After praising the Jimny for its light weight, I managed to sink it!

I was in a very boggy area of the woods that I probably should have avoided, but where's the fun in that?! The problem with this ground is that once you cut through the 'crust' of grass and dead leaves it's just bottomless soft peat. Once the trailer dropped through I was just pulling a dead weight and the Jimny dug itself in!

After pulling the Jimny out with a tractor on flotation tyres, I went back with some longs strops and rescued the trailer with the Jimny.

Once I've bought a set of mud terrains I think I'll be saving for a winch!

Given the boggy ground I think your next bet would be to fit wider tyres on the trailer to spread the load as that is a lot of weight concentrated on those skinny wheels.

Also, I'd bring the Jimny tyres down to around 15lb and keep a twin-cylinder air compressor in the Jimny for inflating the tyres quickly when you get to firm ground/road. A set of auto-deflators can quickly bring the tyres down and only cost about $60. Twin-cylinder compressor should set you back about $130.

For your Mark 11 trailer, set up the axles to be the same width as on the Jimny and for preference, the same stud pattern as the Jimny, makes life easier.