rbeemer wrote:Leslie,
You will need the tailer lights and the decking could save you some money because you will have to put a floor in. You may want to look at brakes and having him weld in about 8 tabs so you can secure your floor and trailer to the frame. Where you can save some money is not having all the cross members welded in, theses are not needed because you will be builing a wooden frame for the bottom of your trailer. You will get one cross member from the axle, which is toward the rear(have to have him place it for you in the location you need) Andrew put an axle placement spreadsheet in the design library which should give you a pretty good estimate on where to place the axle. and then you can have a cross member placed near the front if you want(not necessary)
You can find a thread I started when I asked for opinions and help on a trailer frame, that can give you what I was thinking and some other peoples thought(if I remember correctly)
Just my wooden nickel
Dale M. wrote:All my materials for frame (2"x2"x.120 steel tubing) and axle stubs and wheels and tires and spring and a lot of misc. stuff for about $350.... I setup and fitted all my pieces and had a person with truck mounted portable welder come buy and zap it all together. He charged me $100...
Trailer is 5'x9' on 1200lb springs and has 15 inch wheels and tires....
All I am trying to say is with a little exploring, and some self application you can economically build your chassis for less than having commercial shop do it for you....
And for local trailer you have found, the only thing I can see is that the #3500 spring set may be a little stiff for your application, but it may be possible to remove a spring leaf or two to make suspension softer...
Dale
NutmegJoe wrote:I had the steel for my frame cut to length at the steel place...even had them cut the corners at 45 degree angles there (an extra $1 a cut I think). Brought it all home, clamped it together and had someone come over and weld it for me. Total for the steel was $206.
I don't know if that's another option for you to look into or not...but, I wanted to put it out there.
Good luck.
NutmegJoe wrote:I got a flexiride axle from Southwest Wheel. They run about $227. Leaf/spring ones are less I think. I'm not sure how you get much below $500 either... But, I'm really happy with my setup so far.
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