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1991 Brenderup Royal Horse Trailer: Specs, Photos, and What It’s Like to Own One

Published September 27, 2025

UPDATE: This trailer sold in September 2025. Leaving this post up because so many people have written in asking about Brenderup trailers in general. Details, specs, and photos below for anyone shopping for one.

After eight years of reliably happy ownership, my wife Julia and I sold our 1991 Brenderup two-horse trailer. We originally bought this Brenderup trailer to pull with our 4-cylinder 2006 Toyota Tacoma. It worked perfectly. We upgraded to a bigger truck and stock trailer, so no… Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Homestead, Horseing Around, Splinters, Travel by Horse & Mule | 1 Comment

Public Service Announcement to Birds Nesting in Our Trailer

Published May 1, 2022

Attention Mr. and Mrs. Wren: Please don’t build any more nests in the spare tire of our horse trailer. That’s why your young’uns went missing today from 10:30 am until 5:30 pm.

Attention anyone hauling a trailer: check your trailer for bird nests and chicks before you use it this spring.

Horse trailer spare tire hiding a wren nest
You don’t see anything unusual with this spare tire, do you? More on this in a second.

Stowaways

My wife Julia and I hooked up our trailer today… Continue reading →

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For Sale: Trailer for Hauling Horses/Mules and Wagon Together

Published January 12, 2021

Sold Sold Sold: Enjoy your new trailer Etienne and Hahna!

How do you haul a horse and wagon in a single load? With a trailer that can do both. I’ve owned and enjoyed one of these rare trailers for 15 years. It’s served me incredibly well. This week I’m putting it up for sale.

Combination trailer for hauling a horse or mule and a wagon
The trailer. The horses or mules ride in the front. The wagon rides in the back.
Trailer loaded with a covered wagon and a mule
Trailer loaded with wagon and mule. Mule and wagon not… Continue reading →
Posted in Around the Homestead, Horseing Around, Splinters | 3 Comments

Sought: Ride for 2 Mules from Idaho to North Carolina.

Published October 21, 2019
Bernie Harberts with mules Brick and Cracker on final day of ride from North Carolina to Hailey Idaho
Our final day on the road: Cracker and Brick spent 6 months riding from North Carolina to Idaho. Now it’s time to go home. (Sheila Lieramann photo / Hailey, Idaho)
Map showing mule trailer route needed from Hailey Idaho to Lenoir North Carolina
Where we need to get: Hailey, Idaho to Lenoir, NC.
Bernie Harberts and wife Julia Carpenter, available to help drive mules home from Idaho
I’d be happy to pitch in with driving. Yes, my wife Julia trusts me to haul her Haflinger Pickle. No, I won’t embarrass you by wearing my top hat. Or maybe I will.
Posted in Travel by Horse & Mule, Two Mules to Triumph — Riding from North Carolina to Idaho | 4 Comments

Sought: Ride Home for Two Mules

Published October 11, 2019

Know anyone that could trailer my mules Brick and Cracker from Idaho back to North Carolina? They’ve walked 2,000 miles to get here and don’t want to walk home.

Mules Brick and Cracker packed up in Idaho needing a trailer ride home to North Carolina
Cracker and Brick spent 6 months walking from North Carolina to Idaho. Now it’s time to go home.

Right now (October 11) the mules and I are in Blackfoot, Idaho. We plan to be in Hailey, Idaho around October 25. I’d be looking for a trailer ride home to North Carolina… Continue reading →

Posted in Travel by Horse & Mule, Two Mules to Triumph — Riding from North Carolina to Idaho | 14 Comments

Building the Covered Wagon Trailer: 2,200 Miles to Nova Scotia

Published June 1, 2012

I love to haul stuff. Preferably on a rig of my own clobbering together. Take this week’s challenge. Haul mule Polly and her wagon 2200 miles from North Carolina to Nova Scotia and beyond.

Long Rider Bernie Harberts' homemade covered wagon trailer, built from a 1961 horse trailer and a flatbed, ready to haul mule Polly to Nova Scotia
The answer to this week’s hauling challenge.

Enter the sawed off, we-ain’t-got-the-new-toys-but-we-do-have-a-1961-horse trailer ethic.

The tricky thing about hauling Polly and my wagon is that my mule wagon’s too tall to fit into a standard horse trailer. Sure, for money, lots of it, I could buy… Continue reading →

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