Home made trailers

[Willowbilly3]

Who else here has built their own trailer(s)?
I'm working on a couple right now. I have probably built 20 or so if you count the pickup bed trailers.

 

[bob w]

I built this one last summer. Single axle, unsprung, tilt. Still cost way more that it should. Kept it light so I can pull the mess with my S-10.

 

[Bonehead]

I have built a bunch. This one is a 20 foot deck with a 4 foot dovetail, and yes I am tied down to the fenders, they are made to drive over, and will hold up nearly anything. 5on 5.5 bolt pattern torsionflex suspension. Steel deck.

 

[Rev Tex Devlle]

I have built a bunch

yeah me along these lines,, built bout 2 a week, cookie cutter trailers!!! guy bring me the stuff and all the welding consumable, paid me 3oo a trailer, i build one in two days paint and floor on the 3rd,, 18feet by 76 inches, 2 foot dove 4 foot ramps wood floor did that fo about a year , got burned out

 

[Willowbilly3]

Alabamy is where a lot of the ebay trailer parts come from.
I have a friend who goes down to Missouri and buys trailers for less than the materials would cost here. You can get a lot tied up in one quick. I am building one on an old travel trailer that had torsion axles and 4 wheel brakes. I will have to do drive over fenders because the axles are too narrow to drive between. My next one I have in the planning stage. I am going to use 3/4 ton 4x4 front hubs/disc brakes and make my own axles. Then use one of these

http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.catalog&categoryID=309

I'm tired of cheap crappy trailer brakes so I am designing my own. I will also run it through an old style Kelsey hays controller so the trailer brakes are modulated with the pedal pressure. The new style digital ones are just totally unacceptable. In my 69 crewcab I use an ancient Warn hand control that is clamped to the steering column, works awesome, I just hang a finger through the steering wheel to actuate it.