I've been watching/researching the board for several weeks now and thought I should (finally!) say hi. I'm continually amazed at all of the different designs out there, and, more importantly, the amount of help everyone gives here. Simply amazing!
I got a trailer (5' 4" x 8') about ten days ago, and have been working on a design since. Well, that's not exactly true. I was leaning towards the Weekender before even getting it, or something relatively simple to construct. Once I got the trailer and sat on it, hooked it up to the tow vehicle (Jeep), hit the graph paper & Photoshop, the plans have been evolving.
Here's what she looks like:
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Funny thing happened to me on Saturday. I went to purchase most of the supplies and got rear-ended before I could even get to the hardware store. No damage to me, but the van behind me can't say so. We were waiting for the light to change to and, all of a sudden, the van which was stopped behind me, decided to hit/ram the trailer. Not sure why, but anyway the trailer has large tie-down eyelets on the back of the frame which acted like a bumper (you can see them in the second photo). The right-most one got pretty bent but the van behind me got quite a dent. I guess I learned before investing all the time & $$$ into it that I should put some kind of a bumper on there before the maiden voyage.
Here's the bent-in eyelet:
Well, that's probably enough for my first message. Hello everybody!
