Many small recovery vehicles are just converted flat bed vans. If you intend to buy one, make sure the conversion has been undertaken professionaly and the suspension and brakes have been upgraded appropriately.
If you are using a passenger car with a GVW of less than 3.5 Tonnes then the maximum length of the trailer you can tow is 7m excluding the coupling a drawbar. You are unlikely to exceed this except in the most unusual circumstances.
The historic town of Cleator Moor is set in the English County of Cumbria and has good access to the Lake District nearby. Many local people have Irish roots as during the Irish potato famine imigrants made there way across from Ireland to Cleator Moor.
Went to change the bearings on our 1990's caravan only to find that there is no washer between the bearing and the castle nut! Whenever I have changed bearings in the past they have always had a washer....View Entire Thread