Trailer Mounted Or Fixed Site Rides Which To Buy

Start With How Often It Moves

A ride that stays on one pitch for a season should be bought as a fixed unit, because you pay nothing for the trailer chassis and you get the footprint back. A ride that moves more than three or four times a year should be bought trailer-mounted, because the chassis pays for itself in crew hours saved. Between those two cases, count the moves rather than guessing.

Count The Crew Hours Not The Purchase Price

A trailer unit opens by dropping levelling legs, levelling the deck, opening the side panels and connecting power. A fixed unit of the same capacity has to be assembled. If you are paying four people for a day at each end of every booking, twenty bookings a year is forty crew-days. That is the number to compare against the price difference, not the sticker.

Check The Road Dimensions Before Anything Else

Folded road dimensions are published per model. The trailer playground range sits around 8.75m x 2.5m folded. Set that against the plated weight and length your towing vehicle is licensed for in your country before you look at anything else, because no other feature matters if it cannot legally travel.

Match The Voltage To The Pitches You Actually Work

Catalogue models are published at 110V, 220V and 380V. If half your circuit is village greens with a single 16A socket, a 380V/40kW machine is a generator purchase disguised as a ride purchase. The pedal-driven race tracks need no supply at all and are the honest answer for unserviced pitches.

Fixed Sites Still Benefit From Trailer Units

A fixed park can use a trailer unit as a movable asset: shift it to the busiest corner for a season, store it over winter, or hire it out. The trailer chassis is not wasted just because you own the ground.