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If you're going to do it, just build a hinge with a piece of solid bar or thick wall pipe for the pin. 3 pieces welded to trailer, 2 pieces to ramps, bar slides into all of them.
I vote no ramps and just put a winch on the trailer if you ever need it.
I say slide in/out ramps. that way when you load something longer than the trailer, IE tube, lumber, pipe ect the ramps aren't in the way.
my dad has had several trailers with ramps. it is my opinion that ramps should have supports. in otherwords, build supports so that when your front tires make it onto the trailer, the rear of the trailer does not go way down. i have attached a MSPaint drawing to better explain what i am talking about. normal ramps and trailer in black. "supports" in red.
good luck sliding those under the trailer! :flipoff2:
holy fork, are you putting a backhoe on the trailer, or a stripped 4 runner?
My point Ed Zachary
well most of them are for big trenchers. however, the fact still remains, when you drive the vehicle up onto the trailer it will lower the back of the trailer and raise the rear of the truck.
if he is going to make them permanently attached, i see no reason not to add the bracing. if they are removable then that is a different story.
My dad's trailer that I borrowed to tow Coop's Jeep to Clayton a couple years ago has folding ramps with bracing like that. It does help when loading/unloading vehicles and whatnot compared to my car hauler which has slideouts.