You don’t have to spent $50k or more for a nice snowmobile trailer. Check out what you can do to make a less expensive trailer just as nice before winter hits.
We took a standard 24-foot, enclosed aluminum trailer and turned it into the perfect snowmobile trailer with a few simple upgrades. One major plus about the deck over shorter style trailer is for riding in places like British Columbia. The trailer has enough ground clearance to get you up the mountain to the snow and not muddy gravel trails.
The Floor
The synthetic “ice” used in ice hockey rinks makes for a great trailer floor - skis steer great on it and the tracks have lots of traction. Studs don't phase it either. Order in 4x10 sheets to make installation super easy.
Once the ice hockey rink flooring installed we recommend adding SuperClamps to make loading, unloading and securing your sled in the trailer a breeze. Never again will we own thread in tie downs.
If you are looking to add heated floor to your trailer you need to check out the radiant floor heating system from WarmZone. It keeps the floor dry, helps melt the sleds out at night, and helps the heater maintain heat using less propane. On nights above 25°f the floor heat will maintain the trailer around 60° with the wall heater off.
If you are going to add heated floor to your trailer, you are going to want to add floor drains. We use drain tile for concrete. It comes in 2x4x10” strips and is PVC so it’s easy to cut and work with.
Heating
After years of trying to heat Snowmobile trailers we found that Williams Direct-Vent Furnaces are the best because they are compact, can be wall mounted, require no electricity and allow you to work on your sleds without worrying about the exhaust fumes. The sealed combustion chamber requires no room air to work so you and the since the exhaust is pushed outside the trailer you won’t have to worry about getting smoked out. Some heaters will push the exhaust out the trailer but still burn the oxygen from inside so you still will get light headed and dizzy. This furnace is features a “matchless” pilot igniter and does not use the oxygen inside the trailer to heat. This is the best heater we've ever had in our setup in years.
Generator
We have a Yamaha 2000 inverter generator that we run out in the field for testing and it runs the fluorescent lights, air compressor, and floor heat just fine. We wired the trailer so we can easily flip a switch back and forth from the generator mounted on the front of the trailer over to the cord when we have a place to plug in.
On top of our trailer, we have a fuel tank supply for the generator. The Thule Box to the right of the fuel tank is a water tight storage box for extra gear bags, helmets, etc.
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