Wondering how best to load a gold cart onto a step up stock trailer. Thanks in advance!
Lawn mower Ramps?
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With back gate open, back railer into a ditch, load, pull up and close back gate.
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Ramps. I use them for getting my pony carts into the truck bed.
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Buy a set of aluminum ramps.
Home Depot, Lowes, and Tractor Supply have sets for around $150.
Or buy a set of ramp ends and make your own with two 2x8 boards. Cost will be around $50, including boards.Don’t try boards alone as they may slip on the trailer.
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We finally got rid of our old, inoperative golf cart. The guy who came and got it set up his truck / trailer on a hill, with a ramp, so mostly the golf cart could be rolled down and partially up onto the ramp (the golf cart was dead). Then he and my husband pushed it up the rest of the way. His trailer was pretty low.
We have portable aluminum ramps, one for each side, and they store nicely in the neck of our stock trailer.
Drive super duper fast.
If you get aluminum ramps, be sure they will hold what you want to drive over them.
We have some for the zero turn mower, so we can haul it in the stock trailer here and there.
Once we tried to load the gator over them and no go, the part that fits on the edge of the trailer was bending out of shape, too heavy for it.
We have a dump wagon with ramps and that one you can run bigger things over.
The mower before we had ramps, we backed the trailer into a bar ditch until it was level to enter and did fine that way.
The stocked aluminum ramps I mentioned from Home depot are rated for 1500 pounds per ramp, or will support any golf cart weighing up to 3000 pounds. The wheelbase of an EZGo golf cart is 66 inches and the ramps are 60 inches, so in this example the entire weight of the golf cart is not ever on the ramp, as when loading the cart its rear wheels are still on the ground as the front wheels become supported by the trailer.
Don’t know how much our gator weights.
When we saw the front part of aluminum ramps by the stock trailer was bending, we added wood blocks under it and it worked ok, nothing else bent.
Do we think they make ramps rated strong enough for a Gator?
Heck, I have aluminum ramps that support my tractor. I bought them from www.discountramps.com
They are light enough to be lifted with one hand. It’s all about structural design.
If it’s an actual golf cart and not a gator or such they’re pretty light, a couple people could probably lift the front up and then push it in. I flipped ours a couple times by accident 
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The steel ones in our dump cart hold up a larger skid loader.
Those are made out of 2" heavy gauge angle iron, not aluminum.
Those are long and have to raise what you are driving up them higher than the stock trailer.
They store right under the dump trailer, slide from the side and you take them out to put them where you need them.
They also make light trailers that lower behind to the ground and as you drive up on them pivot on the axle and come down in front from the weight of what you are loading.
