Slyder's Trailer Thread
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Nice. I thought I had a good setup with a Harbor Freight trailer with a Sears car carrier bolted to it. This takes the cake. Hauled mine all the way to Sturgis this year. Had some trouble with fish tailing. I like the larger wheel base you did. Seeing this makes me want to do further mods...
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The torsion axles are rated at 500lbs i think. But loaded with the crap we carry it was like 400lbs so it rode really well.
I used to do facility/equipment/crane maintenance at a local steel manufacturing plant and the cradle pieces came off a large laser table(capable of cutting 2.5" plate). They were complete circles with a hole in the middle and i stood there looking at them in the scrap bin thinking what could I make out of these. Also in the scrap bin was a couple 50 gallon drums.......the rings fit the drums perfectly so I cut them in half and I milled a bunch of holes in them to lighten them up. They were kinda overkill for this project since they were so thick. 3/4" plate......i coulda got away with 1/2" or less. But beggers cant be choosers I guess.
The wheels were cheap. With tires....new....like $25 a pop. Im still on the look out for some "moon" hub caps for em. I can find 8" moons but cant find 12" ones. So if anybody knows where i can find some hollar.
I used to do facility/equipment/crane maintenance at a local steel manufacturing plant and the cradle pieces came off a large laser table(capable of cutting 2.5" plate). They were complete circles with a hole in the middle and i stood there looking at them in the scrap bin thinking what could I make out of these. Also in the scrap bin was a couple 50 gallon drums.......the rings fit the drums perfectly so I cut them in half and I milled a bunch of holes in them to lighten them up. They were kinda overkill for this project since they were so thick. 3/4" plate......i coulda got away with 1/2" or less. But beggers cant be choosers I guess.
The wheels were cheap. With tires....new....like $25 a pop. Im still on the look out for some "moon" hub caps for em. I can find 8" moons but cant find 12" ones. So if anybody knows where i can find some hollar.
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