The ¾ and ½ top trailer are great for catching wild cows that have to be roped and dragged into your trailer. You don’t have to worry about threading your rope through the sides of the trailer and etc. so you can just flip it up over the lazy L and drag the critter into your trailer. The one thing to remember when selecting your rear gate option on this type of trailer is that since you have no bow over the top of the trailer in the back to help support a heavy gate I would recommend the butterfly gates because they are not as heavy as the single swing gate and you don’t have the whole the weight of the gate hanging back there on one corner of your trailer with no support over the top. We will not put a swing/slider on the rear of this type trailer as that gate is way too heavy to have on one corner of this trailer with no bows over the top.
I would not recommend a 6’8” wide trailer or going more than 8’ open in the back. The wider or longer you go on this type trailer the harder it is to hold the back end of the trailer together without any bows over the top. Another thing to think about is if you are going to be roping wild cattle and dragging them into your trailer chances are they are not on the highway or along a good county road. They most likely are in the roughest hardest to get to places that they can get to so you shouldn’t be going back into that type of rough country with the 6’8” wide axle so I would use a 5’ wide or 6’ wide axle for that type application with the butterfly rear gates. Although we have built 32’ X 6’8” wide 3/4 top trailers for customers in the past I just don’t see this as a good idea.
Here at our ranch we have a 16’ X 6’ wide single axle trailer on a 5’ axle (we can pull this trailer with a half ton pickup) to go get the wild ones in or to help a neighbor. Then we have a 24’ X 6’8” wide trailer on a 6’ axle to use around the ranch day to day. Then if we are weaning calves and hauling them to market or to another ranch we have a 32’ X 6’ 8” or my new trailer is going to be 32’ X 7’. We can go 7’ wide on a 6’8” axle without putting a fender on the inside and the cost to get the extra 4” is pretty minimal and it makes the cattle load & haul easier.
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