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POPULAR CALICO MODELS
Now at Traveled Lane - Calico Horse & Stock Trailers!

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We're pleased to announce
the addition of
Calico Trailers
to our offerings. Calico
trailers are well made, but they're also very
affordable, which makes them doubly appealing in
a tight economy. We get several inquiries a
week about used trailers, and good used
trailers always seem to be in short supply.
The addition of
Calico allows us to offer a ready supply of
safe, well made, well-equipped NEW trailers
at prices just slightly above that of a good
used trailer (and as some of you may have found
out the hard way, you often won't know if that
used trailer is good or bad until after you've
bought it). We're pleased to be able to
offer several well-equipped Calico horse trailer
models starting in the upper $4000 range.
Calico has been
building trailers since 1983. They offer
trailers ranging in size from short & narrow for
miniature horses up to tall & long for
warmbloods and other large breeds. They also
offer a variety of livestock trailer models,
which we'll be adding to this section as they
arrive.

For the initial group of
trailers shown here, we've chosen to go with 12'
bumper pulls because that's a very useful size
without being too large. We're particularly
excited about the two trailers in the photo just
above this paragraph. They're 6' wide, 12' long
and
7'6" tall. Even
though they look like stock trailers, they're
actually straight loads with rear ramps.
The 12' length and 7'6"
height makes them great for large horses such as
warmbloods. The stock-trailer body style makes
them bright, inviting and affordable and
provides plenty of ventilation.
Calico's optional spring-assisted ramp on the
featured trailers is very easy to use. The 12'
trailer body length provides plenty of room for
large horses, but it also allows us to equip
these trailers with a full height escape door
forward of the fender. We feel it's much safer
and more convenient than the small door over the
fender that's a feature of many short-bodied
trailers.
The trailer on the
left has no tack compartment (but plenty of
room forward for tack storage). The trailer
on the right has the optional tack storage
compartment. In many shorter trailers, the
tack compartment is right in front of the
horses' knees. We've chosen to offer the
12' length so you'll have walking space
between the chest bars and the tack
compartment. This configuration makes the
escape door much more accessible from both
stalls. We've done our best to equip our
Calicos for safe and convenient use while
keeping them very affordable.
Calico
trailers feature high quality Dexter
axles and even Calico's smaller bumper
pulls come with standard 16" Load Range
E radial tires. That tire size and
rating is typically found on 3 and 4
horse trailers, so we hope this gives
you a sense that even though Calicos
are very affordable, they're not
bargain-basement trailers. If you look
closely at the interior shots, you'll
see that Calico puts guard bars on
windows in the horse area (some brands
don't) and they put a nice interior trim
ring around the front window. Quite
often in steel trailers, there will
be rough exposed edges inside the window
openings. And speaking of cut-above
efforts, we hope the gloss and good
finish of the Calicos is apparent, even
though we violated our "only on bright,
sunny days" rule when we took these
pictures. Calico has several paint
booths; they don't rush the painting
process, and it shows.
The trailer
just below this paragraph is a Calico 2
horse slant stock combo. It's 6' wide and
12' in length and has the optional 7'
interior height. This one is equipped with
what Calico calls the Poor Boy dressing
room, which has a locking entry door and a
wall that swings out of the way so you can
open up the interior of the trailer to haul
a load of hay, etc. A nice feature of this
model is that it has a standard escape door
on the first stall. You'll often find on
value-priced trailers that escape doors
are optional, if offered at all. The model
shown has optional floor mats, a padded
chain across the rear opening and 2
contoured Saddle Boss saddle racks in the
dressing room.
If you're interested
in something a bit fancier, the trailer just below may
be of interest. It's a Calico 2H straight load with
tack compartment. It's 6' wide, 12' long and 7'6"
tall. As with the straight loads mentioned earlier, it
has plenty of room for large horses. We ordered
it with an additional escape door (one is standard),
plenty of windows, floor mats and wall mats.
We're very excited
about the addition of Calico trailers. We have more of
them on order and plan to keep a variety of styles in
stock. Watch this space as we grow our inventory and
add more Calico models. We invite you to visit Traveled
Lane to see our Calicos (and maybe take one home).
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