My attempt at being a builder....Here we go!!
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:21 pmWell, with much help from this forum and LOTS of thinking, the wife and
I decided that I should give it a crack and build one of these little
guys. I have the time, so we thought it would be a fun little project
and save us some cash (if it all works out right or we bought some
expensive firewood
)
I am going to show and take as many pictures as I can....so here we go.
The plan was to get the most heavy duty trailer from Harbor Freight and
do a mix of the simple/weekender design. After looking at the size and
shape of the wood compared to the Wrangler it will be towing, we decided
to just make it completely square, almost like a cargo trailer. Being
sheets of ply are 4x8, this take a lot of the guess work out of it.
First up was the trailer:
The box showed up a little beat up, but I had to dive right into it that
night.
All the parts:
Starting to come together, the front end:
Complete frame:
Adding the axle:
Complete trailer, ready to roll, if I can get it out of my basement:
Time for some wood. Went to the local Home Depot to pick up some 1x2
pine strapping, some 1x8 pine for supports and 15/32 BC pine ply. I
figured that would be strong enough to hold it all together:
Trying out my own design...this stuff is easy:
I don't think that will stand up to wind or rain much, so I tried it
with wood:
Not much room in it for 2 plus the puppy:
Back to the original plans, the floor. I actually used more wood
bracing it then I would have imagined, but the stronger the better.....I
guess:
The Mrs. decided we should put the drop floor in:
On the trailer:
The box:
WOOOHOO!! It actually fits:
So that was the first night and day of the build. My next step is to
make sure all the seams are sealed tightly on the bottom of the box then
hitting it with the roofing tar. I probably won't get to that until
later this week, possibly next week. The major problem with building
this trailer is I need it to carry my race gear to my mountain bike
races, but I need to train to race....so do I build or do I train.
Racing pays the bills, so training is more important, so I will only get
a chance to build when I get some extra time.
Feel free to check out all of the pictures (I only posted some to give you
all an idea of what I am doing) on websites galley,
http://outdooraddict.org/gallery/v/Trailer/.
I decided that I should give it a crack and build one of these little
guys. I have the time, so we thought it would be a fun little project
and save us some cash (if it all works out right or we bought some
expensive firewood
)
I am going to show and take as many pictures as I can....so here we go.
The plan was to get the most heavy duty trailer from Harbor Freight and
do a mix of the simple/weekender design. After looking at the size and
shape of the wood compared to the Wrangler it will be towing, we decided
to just make it completely square, almost like a cargo trailer. Being
sheets of ply are 4x8, this take a lot of the guess work out of it.
First up was the trailer:
The box showed up a little beat up, but I had to dive right into it that
night.
All the parts:
Starting to come together, the front end:
Complete frame:
Adding the axle:
Complete trailer, ready to roll, if I can get it out of my basement:
Time for some wood. Went to the local Home Depot to pick up some 1x2
pine strapping, some 1x8 pine for supports and 15/32 BC pine ply. I
figured that would be strong enough to hold it all together:
Trying out my own design...this stuff is easy:
I don't think that will stand up to wind or rain much, so I tried it
with wood:
Not much room in it for 2 plus the puppy:
Back to the original plans, the floor. I actually used more wood
bracing it then I would have imagined, but the stronger the better.....I
guess:
The Mrs. decided we should put the drop floor in:
On the trailer:
The box:
WOOOHOO!! It actually fits:
So that was the first night and day of the build. My next step is to
make sure all the seams are sealed tightly on the bottom of the box then
hitting it with the roofing tar. I probably won't get to that until
later this week, possibly next week. The major problem with building
this trailer is I need it to carry my race gear to my mountain bike
races, but I need to train to race....so do I build or do I train.
Racing pays the bills, so training is more important, so I will only get
a chance to build when I get some extra time.
Feel free to check out all of the pictures (I only posted some to give you
all an idea of what I am doing) on websites galley,
http://outdooraddict.org/gallery/v/Trailer/.
It's all up from here! Now you get to do the evil smelling black goo.
Danny