can you identify my rice trailer please?

[abbiegirl]

HI i was just wandering if i put a pic up of my Rice trailer would anyone by chance be able to identify the model and give me some more information on the towing weight of it etc please? There is nothing i can see on the trailer only Rice, Crosby, Leicstershire
It is an older model rear unload.
I have e-mailed Rice and they have not returned my e-mail so i am hoping some of you nr may me able to shed a bit of light

The dimentions are approx

5ft wide
9ft long ( box only)
just over 7 ft high

originally it was a blue/grey colour

 

[eml]

Rice sadly no longer exist, I think they were taken over by Richardson.

It looks like an old Rice Eventer rear unload to take 2x 15hh.

 

[abbiegirl]

Thankyou
have just googled rice eventers and it is very much like mine now to find out the towing weights etc lol!

 

[abbiegirl]

Does anyone know how i would go about getting some plates made up for this trailer? would it be poss to take it to my local weigh bridge and get the plates made from there?
Also sorry to be a pain in the butt but would they be able to calculate how much the trailer would carry etc too? (ie all the info i need on the trailer weight) and how much would it cost?
thankyou

 

[rtk]

Contact Richardson Trailers, they are near York. They took over/ merged with Rice and have information on all the old trailers.

Get the chassis number off the front and they will tell you exactly what is it, when it was made, what weight etc.

 

[abbiegirl]

got the info on my trailer - and another question regarding downgrading the mam weigh

Managed to ring rice richardson and gave the nice man the measurements of the trailer he narrowed it down to 2, one of them being an eventer trailer
The Weight on these trailers are very light (0nly 610kg unlaiden weight with a mam of 1423kg!) ( he is going to ring me to confirm later )
My jeep has a mam of 2200kg making me just over the weight limit to to tow the trailer legally BUT ........................ i have recently replaced the floor with aluminim ( lighter than wood??) and am wandering if i could have the trailer max weight"down graded" to about 1250kg and if so how would i go about doing this?
Thankyou

 

[edd]

Can I find out the weight of my rice trailer by the serial number