This trailer is for sale on a used auto lot in Ogden for $7900. Appears to be in great condition. I was interested and got them down to $7350 including the $399 "dealer fee", (pre-tax). But it still didn't set well for me to pay that much for a 12-year-old trailer when you can buy a brand new Diamond C deckover for around $10K. Anyway, here it is if anyone wants to take a stab at it.
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Jon,
I sympathize regarding the age and asking price, and especially the BS dealer fee. My impression, for what it's worth, is that the Maxey is a dedicated snowcat trailer, and built in lower quantities. The Diamond C is probably a standard deckover trailer sold for a number of applications.
To compare apples to apples, is the Diamond C also a tilting trailer, and if so, how does the tilt system work? I THINK the Maxey uses an unpowered hydraulic cylinder that acts as a damper, but otherwise it works via gravity.
It does look like it's in excellent shape and a very nice design....
Our DMC 1450 came with a trailer similar to the Maxey. I thought it was a Maxey and reached out to them for some help. There was no VIN data plate, and at their request, I sent photos to Maxey. They told me it wasn't theirs. Doing some more research I found out that DMC had some trailers built to their specs which looked like Maxeys, but weren't. I mention all this because two of the tilting deck frame members were cracked. We think at some point in its life a previous owner used the trailer to transport a heavy four wheel vehicle and with the weight in four points, as opposed to more evenly spread out with a snowcat's track system, the frame cracked. I wouldn't call it a design or engineering flaw as we think it was being used for a purpose for which it wasn't designed. Just some food for thought...
