This all started with Recone’s 21 foot RV frame and axles I picked up from him and Underboosted dumped off at my house.
Plans are: 18’ bed, 2’ dovetail in the rear for lowered cars/trucks. 96" wide total bed space. Side in/out rear ramps. Aluminum lockable storage box up front for tools, and equipment. Winch for dead cars. Removable heavy duty wheel fenders, for wide trucks so they can drive over the fenders. A frame tire rack up front, with some shelves on each side for aerosol cans and fluid containers, and a shelf across the rack to work on track side. Sheet the sides of the rack for sponsor logos! lol. New LED lights, new wiring.
Basicly making this: http://www.kaufmantrailers.com/heavy-equipment-trailer-store/Single-Car-Haulers/18-Ft,-8,000-lb.-Diamond-Single-Car-Hauler-p65.html but with more stuff.
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Went shopping at the RedNeck Trailer Supply in Clifton Park Friday. Picked up all the new goodies for the trailer. That place is great, they have EVERYTHING you can think of trailer related, and are dirt cheap too. $300 later I walked out with:
2X S/T/T LED lights for the rear
LED identification light bar (trailer over 80” wide needs one)
4 red and 4 amber clearance lights
2 license plate lights
100 ft of bonded 4 wire 16ga.
Flat 4 trailer plug pig tail
4x 10Klbs weld on D ring clevis for tie down points
4x 3300lb heavy duty ratchet straps
2X tandem axle fenders
5Klbs tongue jack
Then it was off to see my friends at the Steel Supermarket. It must be bad when they know you by name, and know what projects I have going on when I walk in! lol Great guys and Gal, there BTW, go get your metals from them!!! $150 later I walked out with 2x2x1/4” angle iron, 2” square tube for frame extensions, big hunk of 3/8” plate, bunch of 1/8th plates for clearance light mounts, 1/4 plate for frame extension gussets, 4” ¼ flat stock for cross supports under the trailer to get rid of some of the flex.
Started it this weekend.
We plasma’d all the junk off it; the old plumbing, busted ass side steps, LP tank shelf, bent ass frame extensions hanging off the sides, ream bumper, and the busted jack off the front.
Then we welded in extra cross braces. Used 2"X2" 1/4 wall angle steel. Found one of the stock cross braces was out of square, they welded it on the wrong side of their line at the factory, so we cut it off and fixed that. Cut the last 2 foot section of the frame for a dove tail angle, welded it back on then cut out scab plates out of 3/8” plate and welded them in the frame rails to strengthen up the dove tail. Then I welded in a new jack up front, and fully welded the tongue plate to the frame better than the factory did. Cut a custom maltese cross jack foot and burned that on the jack.
So far the total bill is $650. Shooting for $1K to complete the project. A trailer like this is well over $3K with everything we are putting on it so we are in great shape. The sheet will be the expensive part. I got quotes a few weeks back, and can’t remember what they are off the top of my head. We plan on going heavy duty expanded steel for the tire tread sections of the bed. The grate is ¼” thick and is used to support low boy trailers for heavy equipment. Then the center section of the bed will be regular 1/8” diamond plate steel for walking on and parking atv’s, dirtbikes, tractors and what ever else.
I will take some pics later and post them up too.
