A horse trailer to get excited about! My last Logan Coach review, http://www.mrtrailer.com/loganreview.htm, I called Logan the most improved horse trailer in my first review. They did it again, truly building a horse protection transport that also protects itself from your horses for lasting good looks. Just as our country is climbing out of the Great Recession, Logan Coach took action to become part of Titan Trailers and be one of the economic survivors with volume buying power for supplies and freight.
An efficient leaner Logan sticks to what they do best, galvanized steel frames, aluminum skin and good looking value. Call it the resale value trailer. Bottom line, "beauty of aluminum and strength of steel." One of the few composite trailer brands that can go head to head with high end aluminum trailers for longevity. Tubular metal framing is galvanized inside and out and coated with Vortex. Talk about protected ! Besides your horse going potty on your trailer, you have acid rain and the magnesium chloride on the roads in the winter replacing salt for melting ice. Corrosion is the long term enemy that Logan builds trailers to withstand.
All Logan's framing is galvanized inside and out with Flo-Coat protected triple-coat corrosion protection steel that is then covered with Vortex rubber coating. Flo-Coat is zinc inside and out, with 3 layers, hot dipped Uniform Zinc Galvanizing, Conversion Coating and Clear Organic Coating. Vortex is similar to pickup truck sprayed on bedliner which dramatically increased structural integrity on a truck bed, becomes armor on Logan's frame. This Vortex armor on the steel tubes and inside the trailer's corrugated galvanized sheet metal, also is a noise dampener.
I talked to the Vortex company at SEMA, saw the video of a cement cinder block coated with Vortex then dropped from a 5 story building, it bounced! In the display was a tile coated on one side with Vortex and then beat with a hammer. It stayed together. My thinking was a rubber mat on the kick wall was better for protection, but now I'm convinced that Vortex can handle anything a horse can do to it. Vortex rubber coating is amazing stuff, horses can kick it and dodo on it and it stays put. Like an alien membrane protecting the steel. It's even reparable! I want to coat my truck with it.
Logan's outside skin is painted aluminum. So no paint booths, no over spray and orange peel paint. Tread Brite Gravel Guard on bumper pulls stops road rocks. Logan armor, all the steel is galvanized Flo-Coat and coated with Vortex rubber so any nicks in the Vortex is still protected with the Flo-Coat zinc, this is an important point. Outside skin, roof, bows, cove, fenders, running boards and stalls are aluminum.
Now the parts that the horse abuses the most as well as the road abuses, is the floor; exclusive "Whiz Proof," drains the urine off the floor. Of course it's coated with Vortex rubber coating on wood floors and aluminum floors. On an aluminum floor, galvanized Flo-Coat steel frame with aluminum planks spaced for drainage with a angled wedge to prevent splash back, then all that is coated with Vortex rubber. Talk about armored !
First thing you look at on a used trailer is the floor. Pulling mats is a pain, most people put off that chore. It's the urine getting through the mats and sits on floors that causes the most corrosion. Logan has slotted aluminum floor planks that lets the ammoniated urine leave the trailer. Imagine a horse trailer without work. You might even have the energy to ride your horse. Vortex rubber coating covers the floor, even the rubber mats have channels for urine to run away. This has to be one of the longest lasting floors in the industry. That's where resale value starts.
Stainless steel nose or painted aluminum options, and wedge nose or tapered. Using 3M VHB bonding system for less rivets, smoother look and easier to repair. The gooseneck nose is Flo-Coat galvanized sheet metal then aluminum sheets are 3M bonded on the nose You can see in the picture above, the Vortex rubber coating covering the gooseneck, bulkhead and jack. Logan Coach models range the spectrum with the high end XTR to the economy Rebel all with aluminum skin, galvanized steel, Vortex and torsion axles.
This model year there are more standard features on the top model XTR which comes in 7' 3" or 8' wide with Logan's optional Prestige Living Quarters. Logan Coach aluminum skin is .050 thick, optional aluminum interlocking extruded siding is.100 thick. Edge and Razor models are 7' tall 7'3" wide. Maverick and Rebel models are 6'9" wide. On trailers without mangers, Logan has an oversized rear stall large enough for a box stall for a mare and foal.
Logan Coach trailers reengineered to be lighter with more aluminum components and better utilization of steel reinforcement. Pooling engineering techniques with Titan Trailers has improved Logan's trailer building efficiency. Continuing to build their own Prestige Living Quarters with factory warranty, factory support and now Logan Coach is taking on outside Living Quarters repairs, refurbishing or custom building Living Quarters in all trailer brands.
I like the look of aluminum dividers. It's about protection, comfort and looks. Just walk inside a Logan, see the aluminum roof, aluminum dividers, bows, cove and black divider pads and Vortex on galvanized steel frame. With one of the largest stalls in the industry; 135" stall length 40" wide.
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