Airbagged Trailer

Hopefully not a repost. I haven't seen this here before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikzm_4Adz3U

Cool idea!

That is cool and very helpful for loading. Too bad the price is well into enclosed trailer territory (and its an open trailer).

Aw dammit somebody else figured it out, I had a very similar idea to allow a race car to gain ground clearance and have something like a dual-rate spring setup between a typical track coilover and the airbag.

That is cool.

Is he towing that RX-7 with a focus?? Jk, Lol

Wondering how the trailer wheels stay aligned, without a solid axle underneath.

In reply to CGLockRacer:

So while you have my trailer, figure out a way to convert the torsion axles....

I'm not sure how those are attached in the housings, but it sure seems as if it could be converted- the design seems to go with that- the wheels are on a trailing swing arm off the axle- much like the rear end of a 911. If one could gear the area where the torsion springs are located, then the trailer could be lifted. Or, using the axle as alignment bodies, one could convert the spring/dampner to one similar that the airbag trailer uses. It would work.

And my cars would love that.

I'd be content to have the rear wheel work with a solid axle front wheel, so the rear can fully lower to the ground. I think when it comes down to it, I just hate ramps. I'm thinking if you could outboard the leaf spring hangers some how, you could lower the whole thing, and raise it to drive height with air bags.

this is not new, boat movers have been using similar trailers for years to pick boats up off of blocks and carry them away

this has been sketched up by me a few times as well but never built. neat idea.

I've seen a couple home built trailers on bags being towed by minitrucks, which are also on bags. Pretty much anyone that has the fan skills to bag and body drop a truck can make a bagged trailer seem easy to put together.