08-09-2018, 12:37 AM
Well, it wasn't a delivery it was a pickup. A friend of mine is going full time RV and is getting rid of things. My next project is a trailer. This one was a snowmobile trailer that had some rustrot in at least one place. It had been sitting in his yard with a bunch of antennas piled up on it. After pulling the boards off the top, I found a bunch more spots, so I decided to just redo it.
Stopped at my favorite steel tubing dealer today and picked up 24' of 2x2 tubing. Had them cut it in 5' pieces (with a 4' left over) and will use that to replace the 4 cross beams. The back bumper is also shot, so I'll be replacing that with a length of 2x4 steel tubing (that stuff I picked up a couple of years ago - the really heavy stuff).
In the pic below (I hope it's not too big), things look a bit out of sort. The top is tilted back as if you were to load a sled onto it. The cross beams are going to be shortened. The wife wants to use this trailer for her kayak (easier to load) and doesn't want it as wide as it was. Which is fine, that means I have the wood already. The cross beams will be 54" each, 52" for the leaf spring mounts plus an inch extra on each side.
The two side pieces have a one inch ledge for the beams to sit on and get welded on. That's why the extra inch on each side. That'll make the width about 5 feet or so.
It originally had a couple of pieces of wood that the wiring was stapled to. I'm going to run the wires thru a piece of pvc electrical conduit or two.
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Stopped at my favorite steel tubing dealer today and picked up 24' of 2x2 tubing. Had them cut it in 5' pieces (with a 4' left over) and will use that to replace the 4 cross beams. The back bumper is also shot, so I'll be replacing that with a length of 2x4 steel tubing (that stuff I picked up a couple of years ago - the really heavy stuff).
In the pic below (I hope it's not too big), things look a bit out of sort. The top is tilted back as if you were to load a sled onto it. The cross beams are going to be shortened. The wife wants to use this trailer for her kayak (easier to load) and doesn't want it as wide as it was. Which is fine, that means I have the wood already. The cross beams will be 54" each, 52" for the leaf spring mounts plus an inch extra on each side.
The two side pieces have a one inch ledge for the beams to sit on and get welded on. That's why the extra inch on each side. That'll make the width about 5 feet or so.
It originally had a couple of pieces of wood that the wiring was stapled to. I'm going to run the wires thru a piece of pvc electrical conduit or two.
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