Newer Dakota/Trail King grain trailers

[flea beetle]

Looking at a set of these. Have two lodeking steel tridems and a steel lodeking super b. Will I be disappointed with the Dakota?

Read they had cracking issues around 2012. Are those issues fixed now?

[Taiga]

Looking at a set of these. Have two lodeking steel tridems and a steel lodeking super b. Will I be disappointed with the Dakota?

Read they had cracking issues around 2012. Are those issues fixed now?

Is it a really good deal? I would stick with Lode King or Doepker if you find a set you like.

[flea beetle]

Is it a really good deal? I would stick with Lode King or Doepker if you find a set you like.

That is the problem. Most for sale right now are either overpriced junk, or way grossly overpriced new.

New steel doepker are almost $160,000. Paid $88,000 new for loaded up lodeking in 2013.

[Tucker]

There's the problem. This price of steel or aluminum is going to kill us. I'm rocking my 2012 Wilson as long as I possibly can. The 80's debacle started with sharp decline of commodities but expenses didn't follow down for another couple years. That killed farms. They didn't have the absolutely crazy price of equipment or parts to deal with though. It's not the bad years that kill farmers. It's the good years that they think will last forever. Hammer/checkbook time I think. Maybe I'm just sour that yesterday an 09' 570R that needed a concave/sieves/chopper/RB fees/trucking/had a strange rattle still f u cking went for $103k!

[Taiga]

That’s the annoying part, steel is back to where it has been 5 years ago but prices are still high. I guess the high priced inventory has to get worked through the shops before prices start coming down. Trying not to buy anything for the next 12 months.

[blackpowder]

Just my 2 cents.
If you can, even used, get riveted aluminum. An airplane is riveted for a reason.
Wilson,Timpte, Doepker whatever.
Steel is born to die.
Agreed a painful part of the cycle to buy anything.

[flea beetle]

Just my 2 cents.
If you can, even used, get riveted aluminum. An airplane is riveted for a reason.
Wilson,Timpte, Doepker whatever.
Steel is born to die.
Agreed a painful part of the cycle to buy anything.

These aren’t a necessity. I can hang back. Just they look like nice trailers, and reasonably priced for what they are. Not a deal by any means though.

Looking at putting a truck and trailer on commercially with a local hauler for the winter to keep one of my guys busy during winter. Can easily just use my existing trailers.

[blackpowder]

Ooo, the old buying a job game.
Good luck 🙂

[flea beetle]

Ooo, the old buying a job game.
Good luck 🙂

Lol sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do.

[Generation 5]

Lol sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do.

Is this something you do every year? Put commercial plates on semi? Apparently there lots of work out there for b trains considering doing this myself as we are downsizing the cow calf side of the operation. I can't sit in the house all winter but sometimes would be nice to have a few weekends off in the winter. Cow calf side makes this near impossible lol