crane operator
Senior Member
So I'm cheap. Just starting off with that, before anyone suggests $3,000 fenders or anything.
I would like to mount some fenders on my Western star, I don't drive it a lot in really nasty weather, but if we get out in the mud or in a quarry when its wet, it makes a huge mess out of the crane, the trailer and the back of the truck.
So my question is, what's everyone's preference. Full Stainless, aluminum, or poly? The full length ones that cover both tandems, or individual ones over each wheel?
My experience with aluminum is that it cracks over time with vibration. That and if you get the trailer onto it a little its really easy to bend up.
I've got a buddy with the individual wheel poly and he really likes them. It's a lot of brackets to mount. I've seen them kind of chewed up by a trailer too. I would think the tandem poly's would be kind of flimsy, but I've never been around them.
I don't want the super low/ low riders or anything, just something to keep a rock from taking out the mirrors on the truck. Am I going to end up destroying anything that isn't poly when I'm really cranking around on a jobsite in a bad spot?
I would like to mount some fenders on my Western star, I don't drive it a lot in really nasty weather, but if we get out in the mud or in a quarry when its wet, it makes a huge mess out of the crane, the trailer and the back of the truck.
So my question is, what's everyone's preference. Full Stainless, aluminum, or poly? The full length ones that cover both tandems, or individual ones over each wheel?
My experience with aluminum is that it cracks over time with vibration. That and if you get the trailer onto it a little its really easy to bend up.
I've got a buddy with the individual wheel poly and he really likes them. It's a lot of brackets to mount. I've seen them kind of chewed up by a trailer too. I would think the tandem poly's would be kind of flimsy, but I've never been around them.
I don't want the super low/ low riders or anything, just something to keep a rock from taking out the mirrors on the truck. Am I going to end up destroying anything that isn't poly when I'm really cranking around on a jobsite in a bad spot?