Freelander & horsebox

EmilysDad

What's a Freelander capable of towing?

I was overtaken on the motorway today (on my way back from my so called imaginary CC site) by a Freelander that had 5 people in it & towing a horse box with 2 horses in it. No idea of the weights a Freelander is capable of towing, but I'd imagine a horse box & 2 horses would be heavy! It was pretty down on its rear suspension too & didn't look particularly stable.  

Tinwheeler

I thought you'd have looked it up, MM. 🤔

EmilysDad

I halfheartedly did but don't know how many flavours of Freelander there are or specifically what weights the horse or horsebox were ..... it certainly didn't look a good set up. 

What's a horse weigh? A ton? x 2 plus 3/4 ton for the trailer

huskydog

the average horse box trailer weighs 700kg ,the average horse weighs 500kg (450kg after its had a dump)

max a free lander can tow is 2000kg 

so best put the horses on a diet !!!!!!!

All figures taken from my friend Google 

EasyT

If we are talking 'Light Horses' each under 500kg and so probably legal

Takethedogalong

There’s a lot of dependents. Which model Freelander? How big/type of horse, design/build of horsebox? I should think two ton is absolute maximum, in which case, if it’s a bog standard horse trailer, carrying two 16hh t bred crosses, then it’s over the limit. And towing something that moves around, albeit not very much, is a whole lot different to carrying same weight of inert material.

Our old Disco towed a big trailer and two horses relatively easy, but you could still feel them moving around on the back. Our Freelander one wouldnt have been capable. In fact come to think of it, it wasn’t capable of a great deal really, a case of style over usefulness. 

JVB66

And how heavy was the  very loaded landy and how many cars have according to the sales blurb a 2000kg tow limit

EmilysDad

So you agree with me .... it looked way over because it most likely was.

They were not cart horses but .... 

lornalou1

if the horse box was rocking then that tells you what horses were inside.

EmilysDad

No idea .... but the woman on the back seat added a fair bit the the rear axle load 

EmilysDad

b' dum ... tish! 

Takethedogalong

To many variables to say really. Could have been lightweight but tall horses, trailer might have been lightweight, there are some very dodgy tow vehicles in the horse world, although probably not as many as you see hauling caravans! We towed our horse box for a short while with a 3.5 litre SD1, but only with one horse in, and up the hills round here it wasn’t really up to the job. We soon got another Land Rover.

Goldie146

We’re in the process of changing our car - from a Discovery 4 to the newer version. I fancied a Discovery Sport (cheaper!),  - similar to a Freelander- but though it would tow our large caravan, it wouldn’t cope with the cattle trailer and cows. So the full fat Discovery it is.

There’s different versions of these cars, different engine sizes etc, and we can only speculate.But it was probably “on the edge”.

 

Takethedogalong

Always safer to go with a proper tow car where animals are concerned👍

EmilysDad

Which is why a lad at work bought a 5.0 V10 VW Touareg to tow his daughter's horse box