AC Trailer?

In general, all you get from CL these days is tire kickers and lowballers. They get mad when you won't sell it for scrap weight or less.

I've had two or three calls on the trailer so far but all were at least 6+ hours away.
I had a guy email then finally call me on another trailer I have listed. He was from CT, about a 3 1/2 hour drive from here without traffic. He had me measure it, give him several specs, then he asked for directions and my address. (Keep in mind he replied to an ad on South Jersey CL). When I told him he's looking at roughly 8 hours round trip, he backed out, saying it was too far to drive.

 I sold the trailer the next day to a guy who drove up from Florida to get it. When that guy got here he tells me he had no idea NJ was so far from FL???

I listed an old camper I inherited over the summer, it was in OK shape, but it was about 40 years old. I had no interest in it so I listed it for $800 cash. I got several dozen emails but no one ever showed up to even look at it after about four months.

Then one weekday about a month ago, I get an email from a guy saying he's up this way from Texas and saw my ad. I gave him my address and he came right over. He was driving an older Toyota Prius, complete with a shiny new trailer hitch.

He looked the camper over, handed me cash, hitched it up and drove away. Again, no tag, no light hook up, nothing, not even a place to hook the safety chains. Three days later he emailed me a pic of him with his car and the trailer in front of the bulkheads in Galveston, TX.

It wasn't a huge camper but it was still 26ft with a tandem axle. My half ton pickup definitely knew it was towing something.  I couldn't imagine towing it with a small car, let alone without a trailer brake hookup.I did notice in the pic he sent that he added a set of those cheap magnetic towing lights from Harbor Freight. I suppose that was easier than figuring out how to connect a 7 pin RV plug to a Prius with a hitch.

I still wish you were closer, but I'd be looking at a 200 mile round trip.

I just can't justify killing a day off to come get something I really don't need.

Around here that thing would be gone in a heartbeat. AC and Simplicity are king around here with a few green machines here and there and there's a large Wheel Horse following here.

There's also the issue that NJ doesn't title trailers, and bringing a trailer from NJ to PA is a nightmare. If it don't have an actual title, it takes a lot of legwork here in PA to get it registered. From what I understand, Delaware is the same way.

 I lived in NJ for a few years back in the 90's, I brought my boat and trailer with me from PA. Since we didn't title boats here in PA back then, getting a boat title there took two trips to the state police barracks, a certified letter from Fish and Game here in PA, and three trips to the DMV to get the boat registered. The trailer was another issue, since the trailer was older, it had only a 6 digit VIN, which NJ wouldn't recognize. After a trip to the state police, four to the DMV, someone finally just told me it needed to be registered as homemade because no matter what I did the NJ DMV computer will never accept the original VIN. So I registered it as homemade, forfeited the original PA trailer title, and all was good. Until I moved back to PA 15 years later. The boat was no big deal, just a fee and I got a new PA title for it, but PA refused to recognize a NJ 'Homemade' trailer registration. They do not acknowledge the NJ DMV generated VIN and insisted on more proof of ownership. I ended up just selling the thing in NJ and buying a new trailer in PA. PA wanted me to find a PA trailer manufacturer who would certify and issue a VIN number on my old trailer, most wouldn't bother, the few that would wanted more than the trailer was worth.

Dusty

I'm thinking I should have left it where it sat.

I think what I'll likely do is weld some sides on it and make it into a leaf catch trailer for my lawn vacuum.

I've been watching this for some time, finally got around to signing up.

I see this trailer still listed on CL in south Jersey, didn't it ever sell?

If that were around here it would be gone in a blink, I can't imagine it still being for sale?

I sold one just like it two years ago for $950 in half that condition. Mine needed tires and lots of metal repair but some guy drove down from NH to get it, he rented a Uhaul when he got here to get it home. I'll never forget how he and his son loaded it, sort of like a pole vault flip up into a box truck.

I went to a farm auction a few weeks ago and there was one of these there that looked identical to this one. They had some sort of sprayer mounted on it and it was badly rusted, it had the same Snowco decals on the fenders and Allis Chalmers decals on the sides. It went for $500, but they were most likely after the sprayer as the trailer was completely rusted through.

On this one here, the decal looks as if they missed the boxes when they stamped it, or the stamp was misaligned. There are a few marks but no complete letters on a few boxes.

I've been using it to haul my zero turn between here and my other property down the road. It works great since I can back on and back off, its wide enough for me to spin the mower around on the trailer so I don't have to pivot and tilt it forward.

If a collector wants it, I'd let it go, I sort of feel guilty using it like it is without a proper paint job. I'd just as well get by using an old snow mobile trailer or any 8 to 10' landscape trailer.  I actually have a tilt deck that was built to carry a ditch witch that I could use as well.