The first time I saw a Brenderup
trailer was in 1985 in Switzerland when we took a trip there. A Swiss
endurance rider drove his to a ride we attended with his Volvo station
wagon.
Just as a matter of curiosity, what
DOES a Brenderup cost? And what country manufactures them?
"they don't make cars that can pull a trailer" -- why would you
want a car when you can have a small truck and a small trailer.
I
personally don't want to drive/own a truck of any size. I want my stuff
protected inside the vehicle, I want to sleep inside the vehicle, not in a
truck bed, and I want comfortable seating for passengers and dogs. So I
kept my small SUV and bought a Brenderup. Everyone knows the B's are
light-weight, but many people do not know why these funky-looking trailers are
different from American two-horse trailers. The difference is that they
are specifically designed to be pulled by a car. In Europe where they
originated more than 60 years ago, there aren't trucks, so they got creative
with the engineering. Besides the tongue weight being 1/3 of a comparable
American 2-horse, the Bs do not use electric brakes like American
trailers. They use Inertia brakes, so the trailer never pushes the tow
vehicle, and stopping with a full loaded trailer feels no different than
without any trailer.
I have the largest model, Baron (only model with
decent tack room), and it is touted to be able to tow a couple of 18-h horses
with a car. I got to test their advertisement during the recent fire
evacuations when I used my 6 cyl. small Jimmy SUV, to tow a load of two 18-h
dressage? horses (from high-dollar Middle Ranch). Went half hour on freeway,
then down some steep, winding roads to their destination ~ no problem with
speed, handling or braking! You could not even fit two 18-h horses in an
American slantload, let alone pulled them 35 miles with a car as a tow
vehicle. Granted, the B's are expensive and funky looking, but there is
a reason for it.
Terry "May the Horse be with
You"
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:32:11 -0700 Subject: Re: [RC] Equestrian culture
may be fading into the sunset-California From:
richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx To: merryben@xxxxxxxxxxx;
ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Exactly.
And for the comment that it's too bad "they don't make cars that can pull
a trailer" -- why would you want a car when you can have a small truck and a
small trailer. You can still pull a 2 horse trailer with a small truck,
like a F-150. You don't "have to have" a 1 ton dually diesel and a LQ
trailer.
Not so long ago most people pulled light trailers with light trucks, that
was the norm, not the exception, like it is now.
