Not your average camper frame

[knightgang]

Nice work, good looking trailer.

I am currently in the middle of a rebuild on mine. It was your standard 16ft equipment trailer built from 5" channel. However the original builders used 2" angle for cross members and it had the non brake 3500 lb axles. It served its purpose for 15 years and it got quite banged up during the three years I used it in my landscaping business, including having every cross member bent to make it look like a boat trailer when an excavator was unloading junk and used shingles and placed to much wait in the trailer to drag out the load.

So, mine is now extended to 24' with 18" beaver tail, 5200 lb brake axles, 2 5/16 coupler and a 7000 lb lift drop leg jack. I will put my tool box back on the tongue and it is getting new LED lights all the way around. I am also decking with PT pine 2x10's in stead of the 2x6's that most trailer builders use.

I should be done with mine on Thursday night or Sat morning at the latest.

Will start a thread and put a link in here for everyone.

 

[D2Cat]

You guys building trailers and needing decking material, might consider a local saw mill. You can get 1x12 that are cut a full one inch thick that make a nice deck and last 20 years.

 

[knightgang]

Funny you mention Saw Mill, I will be buying my very own portable one Saw Mill in a few months. We are going to mill all of our own flooring from trees that are currently standing on our land.

And yes, will proper DIY wood treatments sealants, you can get your own milled wood to last that long.

 

[Tooljunkie]

We use poplar for our trailer decking. Rough cut from local sawmill. Its durable.

 

[ShaunBlake]

Not sure why that photo keeps turning but you get the idea at least. So far because of how busy life has been it's taken me three summers of fabricating in my front yard to get to this point. Tonight I finally got to load my tractor on my home made trailer for the first time.

You think maybe it was misbehaving because the project was going so well?

Actually, the OTT innards upchuck when a "portrait" pic is posted unless the height is close to the width. If you crop it so it's almost square, it shouldn't rotate on you.