U-Haul Trailers, How Many Pins?

Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:
Totally ignored, yet everyone else just repeated me, lol

It's Pinside, did you expect any thing different?

Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:
I just rented on the other day and it was a new trailer! (Wow!) and it had about 12 anchor points.
If you can, inspect them beforehand and look for the news ones, those multiple anchor points were awesome and really held the games in place

Plus those new flip top tongues are easy peasy, no more screwing them on and busting your knuckles.

PSA: DO NOT secure anything to the wooden sides. They will pull off the wall and can damage your machines and the trailer.

#41 1 year ago

MDM

Black_Knight

Quoted from flynnibus:
Tip for you... you will generally struggle to get straps around/behind the small bumper rails most U-Hauls use. They don't have big enough gaps behind them to feed the hooks through, etc. So get some nylon line while at the U-haul store, cut about 1' pieces and tie the ends of a piece in a knot to make yourself a small 6-8" loop that you CAN feed behind the bumpers and create self-cinching tie points. Then use those loops to connect the ratchet straps to the walls.

As I said above, do not secure your machines to these rails. They will pull off the wall due for the weight of the machines.

#44 1 year ago

MDM

Black_Knight

I’ve never seen a 5x8 bolted. They glue them and use little nails. The rails are to protect the trailer walls not your cargo.

But if you guys want to risk your machines more power to you.

Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:
Totally ignored

7 months later

#56 11 months ago

MDM

Black_Knight

OP
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:
Got 5 back home in the 5x8 uhaul from Pinfest. It fit a Modern Stern (James Bond), Gottilieb EM (Vulcan), Bally Williams (Dr. Who), P3 Multimorphic, and Xenon (head removed). As a lesson learned it is much easier getting the pins into the trailer leaving the front legs on, leaning them over onto their front legs in front of the trailer, then lifting the back end onto the trailer and standing it up. I actually left the legs on the last two for transport that way with no issues. I woudl also note that if you have any extra pool noodles laying around they are excellent for wedging inbetween machines to keep things nice and tight in the back yet still cushioned.
[quoted image]

Just dumped the trailer for a real hauler. Got 9 machines in with a lot of extras, one of them an oversized Evans Bowler…
Had room for 2 more machines but wife said no.

Not sure my explorer would have pulled a fully loaded 6x12 back to ATL very well through the mountains.

Now I just need to add a hitch and …..

80519813-FBA3-4EA9-BA09-5AE2A94CDDC1 (resized).jpeg

8998E11A-72A7-4B74-8C5F-569FAFFFDE6C (resized).jpeg

#58 11 months ago

MDM

Black_Knight