How many times have you smashed up your trailer lights?

Mortise and tenon disconnects ......is that the new approved way of saying female and male ?
"Wednesday is mortises night" will be posted at the bar.....
Excuse me....I need to run to the little tenons room.......

 

Those oval LEDs are ahead of the game because the male and female end are molded together and pre wired to be " bullet" connectors. They can identify as whatever they want since they are one cohesive unit.

Unlike most of today's younger generation, they actually work though, until you smash them with a loader bucket. Wait, that last part is probably true in either case.

 

Are you talking about something like what I have posted at bottom of this reply? I have the problem that this thread describes and I have had at the top of list as far as new trailer requirements that the lights be part of the frame! I see this feature on higher-end trailers, I wish they put it on some cheaper trailers, lol.

Is this it? (Amazon link to "steel trailer light boxes.") Do these normally fit where the typical light fixtures bolt on?

 

awesome!

 

Those are exactly what I'm talking about. I put a set of those on my boat trailer and that was the best upgrade. I have lights that are guarded by surrounding metal brackets on my wood trailer but the lenses are brittle. These oval LEDs have a little flex to them with the rubber gasket. Plus they are sealed so they have a bit more rigidity to them. They are also very bright.

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Even less expensive now

 

I got some cheap, submersible LEDs for the boat trailer because I had a bad light on one side. I think it was the boat trailer...or was it the car hauler trailer because I busted those up? Well whatever trailer I am thinking of I looked this last year and I have about a half inch to inch of water in a "sealed" light sloshing around in there. I figure I might just drill a few holes to let it drain and then silicone them up and maybe the seam too?

 

I always seem to be pulling wood off the trailer splitting it and one always seems to fly over and bust out the lenses. Yep more than once. I always think, no way that happens again!! It's not like I am splitting 2 ft from the trailer either.

 

I have seen those and I believe they do fit in a normal location.

 

Enough times that the little firewood trailer 4x8 stays on the property cause I’m sick of replacing them lights

 

Those work fine...until the mice move into the box and decide to make a midnight snack out of your wires...right eatonpcat ?!

 

Wow. Never underestimate those little bastages. In my case, I only drilled small holes, 3 to fit 3/8" bolts ( that were all filled with bolts) and 1 that was 1/4" for the wires. Could a mouse even fit through a 3/8" hole?

 

I'm not an expert but I think I have seen more than one place that they can fit through a hole...it's either the size of a nickel or dime? Those two are pretty close in size in reality. What a nickel measure half inch or slightly more?

 

I had one of my sealed oval LEDs collect water in it from launching the boat. I mean they do get submerged a few minutes every boating trip. It must've lagged green the wire entry point. At any rate, that one still works but it's a spare now. I should drill a hole and drain it, then seal it with caulking.

 

1/4 or larger according to these guys. But..... consider the source.House Mouse - Mouse Hole Characteristics | Terminix.
Here someone that spent some time.

Smallest hole for a mouse experiments

Answer is 17.5 mm or .689". So they can't fit though s 3/8" hole which is .375. they can't even fit through a 5/8" hole according to this experiment.

 

Seeing as I wrecked my wiring harness for 3 years in a row and this year I didn't get to fixing that, I'm not sure if my trailer lights would work or not once I replace the wiring harness. Just been enjoying staying on driving the backroads this year.

 

I smashed my trailer lights the first day I had it. Then one of my friends narrowed it, never secured the plug, and drug it on the road for many miles. So that chewed the wires up. I haven't used it for firewood since I got my truck, but have used it for important hauling like taking my lawn tractor to the shop. I also noticed the last time I used it that someone stole the license plate. I never got around to transferring it into my name when I bought it from a close friend, but the registration was expired 2 years ago.

 

Mine are mounted in steel enclosures. I’ve hit em but not broken anything yet. The license plate on the other hand has taken some abuse. Finally revamped it by mounting it to a rubber flap. Helps a little but can still get bent pulling forward after you’ve backed it into the woods.
Photo from before the rubber.

 

I gave up on the standard trailer lights and went to the magnetic ones. Worked good until this past weekend when I had a load of wood and saw in my mirror the light dragging on the ground as the tire ran over it. Back to hand signals now.

 

Thank you auto industry for “environmentally friendly” soy based wire casings