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OHT4 Assembly Manual
Shipping Configuration:
We ship all of our Open Hauling Trailers in an upright position, folded together to reduce their shipping costs. The Semi-trucks we
use to ship them charge by the amount of deck space used for whatever you are shipping times the mileage distance between our
factory and your shipping location. Thus minimizing the amount of deck space required to ship a trailer greatly affects the shipping
costs.
Thus our goal has been to configure our shipping layout of each trailer to minimize the amount of deck space required to ship our
trailers. To give you a rough example, if we shipped them lying on their wheels fully assembled an OHT4 would take up over 17 feet
of deck space. We were able to design its foldup shipping design to take us just 4 feet of deck space. The result of this is that you
are paying 1/4
th
as much for shipping your trailer than you would if we didn’t take the time to very carefully design its shipping
configuration. To give you an example your shipping costs would be over $2,000 if we didn’t fold them up compared to the standard
$895 we charge. We do not add any profit to the shipping costs but just hope to break even and will lose money if most of our
trailers get shipped a long distance.
The second thing we have done is to standardize our shipping costs such that everyone in the USA pays the same shipping costs, no
matter how close or how far you are from our factory. We feel that this is the fair way to do this.
So spending an hour or so to assemble our trailers from their standing upright shipping configuration is probably the greatest cost
saving hour you will ever spend.
Upright Storage:
Our other model Open Hauling Trailers are much smaller and lighter than our OHT4 model trailers and can be stored upright in your
garage for winter time storage. However our OHT4XX trailers are a lot larger and heavier, as they are designed to carry a Slingshot
or multiple Powersport toys, which are much heavier than the typical motorcycles that our other model trailers haul. To give you an
example our OHT1, 2 & 3 weigh only 300#, 400# & 500# respectively. The OHT4 weighs about 850# making it extremely difficult for
even two people to stand upright. You could probable install an electric wench on the ceiling of your garage to accomplish this,
however most of our customers just store their bikes on their trailer lowered in their garage as they don’t take up that much more
room than what they are hauling.
Unloading Your Trailer:
You cannot unload our trailers by hand, plus the 70 foot long semi-trucks will not deliver to a residential area. Thus you will need to
locate a suitable business to unload your trailer. Most of our customers have them delivered to their motorcycle dealers; however,
you may have a business that has a forklift truck or know someone who owns business that has one. We have delivered them to
hardware stores, wrecking yards, farms and every other type of business that you can image. We will send you a shipping
information form prior to shipping your trailer that we will need for the driver, giving him the address, days and hours of operation
and the contact information for the person who will be receiving your trailer. We suggest using a fork lift with tong extensions,
which motorcycle dealers have to unload motorcycles, ATV’s and the other Powersport toys they have to unload also.
So let’s get started:
We have built special forklift brackets into a framework that our trailers are mounted on for shipping. Once the semi driver has
removed the hold down strapping, the forklift driver will insert the tongs of his forklift into the channels provided for unloading the
trailer and lift it onto the ground. We suggest a level place preferably close to his shop and preferably on a level concrete slab to
ease assembly.
