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Mobile home tires, and axles

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37chief

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I have a 16 ft Big Tex trailer. The axles were a tube, connection the wheels. It didn't take much weight to see the tube bend. I had a pair of axles made with a solid bar, much stronger than the original axles. They may be mobile home axles. I don't know for sure. They have 14x5 6 lug solid wheels makes me think they are. I have had them on my trailer for around 15 years. I can still get 14.5 trailer tires. my question is what's the difference between mobile home tires, and standard trailer tires? I see them on the internet with a load range of G, so they must be able to hold the weight. I use my trailer for hauling my tractors locally. No long distance hauling. Any thoughts? Stan
 
I'm not sure of the difference.

However, I have an 18.5' car trailer that I built on two mobile home axles in 1986, and all I've used on it are mobile home tires. It's been all over the Midwest. Denver, Minneapolis, Des Moines, etc., plus numerous trips to the Omaha auto auction, Salina, KS auto auction, Sioux Falls, SD for rebuilders, and all other manner of local hauling. Nary a complaint.
 
Pretty sure there is an issue with DOT certification of the MH tires. That's why the sidewall says "for mobile home use only". I wouldn't want to get pulled into a scale inspection or in an accident with them on a trailer. Your choice.
 
Built this one in 1976...been around the world at least a few times.
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This spring I did some spring work on my trailer. It runs the mobile home style axles. I had actually had acquired enough actual trailer tires, so I swapped them all out. A real trailer rated 14.5" tire weighs about twice as much as a mobile home tire.
 
there are different ply ratings and tread design used with mobile tires,if the tread is round faced they ain't much good most likely 8 to 10 ply,on the other hand if the tread design is flat they will be 14 ply and up which hold up well because of the greater ply rating and amount air pressure they run
 
U better be careful .those will come off going down the road they will come off saw it happen twice .once it was me
 
There is quite a difference between 14.5 trailer tires and mobile home tires. I was able to tour a tire plant many years ago. Was told by the guy making mobile home tires,"these are made on Fridays with anything left over from everything else we made during the week. They are expected to make 1 trip from the Mobil home MFG plant to the sales office and 1 trip from the sales office to the mobile home site". His exact words guys. I sold dozens of both, went to 100% trailer tires in the last 10 or so years I owned the tire shop. To my knowledge 14.5 trailer tires were not avialable before that time. Overall they were lots heavier than mobile home tires.
 
We have a cattle trailer, and a flat bed trailer (both with dual mobile home axles) we built 30 something years ago. The original mobile home tires are finally showing their age. The cattle trailer, and its old mh tires is still in good shape, usually use it twice a year, roughly 60 miles per year. The flat bed we retired this year because we use it a lot, didn't have too many problems with the mh tires, threw a couple of caps off on 90/100 + degree days. The problem with it is all the pivot points in the suspension are worn enough that its not worth fixing, plus its at the point that it needs a new floor.
 
Mobile home tires and axles are used over and over and over again. Back in the 90s I worked for one of the places that made mobile homes and I hauled a lot of axles and tire back to the factory where they where put on a new home and used to get it where ever it was going.
 
(quoted from post at 07:56:37 11/22/17) Mobile home tires and axles are used over and over and over again. Back in the 90s I worked for one of the places that made mobile homes and I hauled a lot of axles and tire back to the factory where they where put on a new home and used to get it where ever it was going.
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My sisters next door neighbor moves, and sets up mobile homes for a living. They still use the axles, and tires on other new mobile homes unless the owner wants to keep them on.
 
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