So, I bought a $100 trailer… How bad can it be?? 

The answer to all your questions about that trailer are “because redneck”. We all have that tendency to build that thing we need for that one job out of scraps, welderup to last that one time, and then keep using it because it hasn’t broke yet.

This looks like fun. Reuse and adapt. For a $100 you can't go wrong.

In today's economy, $100 for anything usable is a steal!! Hell, just the steel alone is worth way more than that. I like turning gruesome into awesome projects! Are you going to carry super long jumper cables for the winch, or a spare battery?

Coming from an electrical background, I would recommend throwing out all the wires and starting with new. Otherwise you probably will be chasing wiring issues forever.

I thought I was the coolest kid on the street, towing the bike trailer that I'd made out of old front forks, mismatched tires, a bent tent pole, hose clamps, and some rope tied to the back of the seat... as a hitch. I only wish I was that cool now.

I would add new trailer axle hubs, because they are easy to service and or replace as needed. Diamond plate the floor and sides too Yes make it structurally sound is the number one goal. Those welds are iffy and it looks like a boat trailer from what I am guessing Most trailers used square tubing rather than round tubing. For a small trailer project there's lots to do on it.

Reduce, reuse, recycle! Having salvaged a few trailers myself, I'm really looking forward to the end result.

You're more enthusiastic than I was when I bought my homemade trailer

Awesum project,,great garage..🚗👍👍😍looking forward to sequel..

I love building trailers. I have 36 fit gooseneck I made using an old mobile home frame. Add "clean and repack wheel bearings" to your list. I find that most things that come home with me haven't been very well maintained lol. I can't wait to see how it turns out!

Cool little project! Looking forward to seeing it all painted up with whatever design you come up with. Have a great weekend! 😎🤙

Excited for your project, especially with all your recent metals works you’ve been progressing with in exploring new things. Can’t wait to watch you go for it!

For most people that would be scrap metal but for you it's a diamond in the rough.

Yep, that's a hundred dollar trailer. Good find. Trailer rehabs are fun.

The J-B Weld to fix a cracked welds is quite a thing. Great time to brush up on your flux core welding skills. Will be interesting to see what you do with it!

I built one from a welding trailer. I got some lights off eBay that have brakes, running lights, turn and reverse for around $20. I made a new 6 pin harness and wired the other side to my Corolla. The reverse lights on the trailer come in handy more so than not

always excited to see your new videos. yeah, I converted a pop-up camper into a decent little 5x8 trailer last summer. I used the left over 3/4" plywood from the floor, to build a utility box on the front of the trailer. it works well to store straps, chains and binders. just an idea. 😁

Looking forward to this project 😀

After all these years watching you i know one thing for sure!, when you're done with this little trailer it will be in the best form it ever was and will be. How exciting i can't wait to see this transformation! And 100 bucks wow!! You can't beat that!. Let's do this!.

Looks like another cool project. I like how you are always positive about the negative things. A little wiring humor. Enjoy the weekend.

YOU GO GIRL !! Love watching your videos. As for this project, I’d say go bright neon green paint for the frame, also add inside light LEDs to light up the inside the trailer while loading at night. Similar to what they have for LED lighting for inside a truck bed, just not so bright. It’s just you can see your mounting points at night if your loading.

So... I'm in the middle of redoing my $400 trailer that I picked up over 10yrs ago. It wasn't homemade like yours but here's a few things I've done so far and plan to do that might give you ideas: 1. Rewired and lights. 2. Re-boarded it with 3/4" pressure treated wood. 3. New wheel bearings. 4. New safety chain. 5. New tongue wheel. 6. New stainless steel hardware. 7. Convert all the weird metal brad nails holding the wood down to frame to riveted nuts with screws. 8. Drilled mounting holes for removable motorcycle wheel chucks. Set up to hole one centered or two side-by-side. Things to do: 1. Straighten bent crossmember and reinforce. 2. Replace tires. 3. Weld on mounting tabs to crossmembers for bigger bolts to secure wood to the frame (weld on nuts to make installation and removal easier). 4. Re-weld the broken welds in the grated steep portion of the gate ramp. 5. Reinforce gate ramp. 6. Research/design/install better gate ramp securing system (currently using stainless steel quick chain links to secure it to the side panels). 7. Install tie-down points/system for loads, 3 channels (each side and center).

I love “pulling parts at junkyards” vids, but no one really does them

That's going to be a pretty cool trailer when you get done, those tail lights are mounted that way so when a airplane comes up behind you they can see them😃👍 on my trailer I ran my wires through PCV piping that I bought at the Home Improvement shop that protected the wires to the tail lights

Paint suggestion: Frosted dark purple with silver accents (stars, moons, pinstripes!). Or black with the same. Thanks for taking us on this journey!

Can't wait to see it. Well worth the $100. I think it's wild that it has a tubular frame.

So for the drums with no brakes, that's a real cheap way to have hubs without buying new proper ones. We deal with a lot of trailers at our dealership so I'm used to dealing with people's 'custom' fixes for things or my personal favourite 3 year old trailers with scotchloks on the harness corroding.

your trailer wiring should be ran in electrical conduit to save the bare wires from getting snagged or hit by rocks going down the road. run it in a T , just an idea from wiring trailers and other things before. love your videos !

definitely a good project thats fairly easy to fix..I'd definitely clean/replace and repack wheel bearings and put some new hub covers with zerk fittimgs so u can add grease when needed plus they allow for u to make sure thers plenty of grease for on the bearungs then just add some metal across floor section whether u use wood or metal for floor then I'd shorten the tongue so its 4ft long and put a new tongue box for a 2" ball and if u wanted to go even the xtra mile u can add trailer brakes to it, trailer brake kits can be added pretty cheap if u get the basic of kits and then u would have one real well built trailer that would last & be xtremely safe and reliable

What a totally cool project, Faye. With your talent, that trailer will turn out better than new. Looking forward to seeing the progress on this one.

The only thing that worries me on the inspection is the coupler. I had the same one on a home built of mine and they failed it before looking at anything else. The only way I could leave with it and get it home to fix it was on a rollback. I had to R&R with a new one. Something about it not being lockable on the ball was the reason given. The rules may be different in your state so make sure before you drag it down. Other than that, I look forward to following this build. It looks fun.

I just rehabbed my 20 ft. car trailer......I actually had it hanging from a chain sideways from the ceiling of the garage! I will be following

Way more industrious than me. I probably just would have towed it till the wheels fell of for a hundred.

Great daily Silver corosion stop paint On the tailgate two flat plate ramp for loading ,unloading mobile devices and keep the grid for the wind WELD some mounting point all around for strap At the triangle WELD a floor for extra space or put a tool box and 3e leg

Have fun on the trailer project! Home made trailers can be interesting. Years ago in the winter, I bought a 14' Shakespeare plastic foam-core fishing boat on a home made trailer. I took it home and fixed the boat up to suit my fishing needs. When it came time to launch it in the spring, I backed it down the boat ramp and tried to push the boat off of the trailer. It was coming off hard. I said to my buddy "Why doesn't this thing want to come off of here!" I heard him roaring with laughter, and he replied "It's because your trailer is floating." Yep, it was floating. The home made bumpers on the home made trailer were made of plastic covered thick foam that kept the trailer, wheels and all, floating, lol. I had to figure out a technique to get the boat off of there. Once I had it figured out, I used it for several years as is. I took it all over the state of Michigan, and had a lot of fun fishing out of that thing.

I thought I was the only one who bought more work like that!!! Looks like some clothesline posts used there!! The fence was keeping it all together I think.

Looks like a nice little trailer once you fix it up, it does look a bit tweaked, so I would definitely check if the axle is square in the frame so you don't wear out tires!!

What great energy! This will be a great project trailer. Looking forward to all your mods.

Years ago my wife bought a $100 trailer. I cleaned and repacked the wheel bearings and put a new set of tires on for another $100. A few years later I replaced the wood for another $50. It has been a good trailer.

That trailer looks like at LEAST $1000 worth of fun to me (yes that’s 10 times what you paid for it in fun!). Just bringing something back to life with know how and hard work is fun (at least to me). Good luck! Have fun. Cannot wait to see the progress.

Faye, your videos are so damn enjoyable to watch. I can't wait to see how this trailer turns out.

You can fix it Faye! You’ve got the skills. A trip to Home Depot will take care of those rotten boards.

I have been a huge fan of Faye since I first saw her. It is extremely obvious that she is incredibly fun, sweet, caring lively and SMART AS HELL! I bet if you are a friend of hers or a member of her family that she would do anything for you. After watching her for years, I learned of her education, Although I did a double take after reading about it, I was not at all surprised she holds a psychology degree from Harvard, She's also a licensed therapist. But her love is obviously automotive and she also excels in that endeavor as well. I don't believe this young woman would fail at anything she put her mind to. Her husband is one very lucky guy.

Hi fay been a while but I am happy to spend this time watching your video before I get on the plane to San Diego for the Memorial Day weekend!!!! Good luck on your trailer project it sure seem lots of work plus $100 💪🏽👽.

It's an old car axle. We've done that a few times to make trailers to haul stuff like lawn mowers around. The tape is flex seal. Instead of those wood cross members I would get some square tubing to go side to side and mount it in about four spots. Then you know you'll have a solid base for your wood runners. We used expanded steel for our floor but you don't have to.

Oh girl, what have you done? So much work to build a usable trailer out of this junk. I really admire your optimism. I would have towed this thing directly to the junk yard (mainly due to our german inspection/registration rules). Please check the geometry/alignment of the trailer before any welding, otherwise you get a lot tirewear. The trailer body seems not to be centered on the chassis (at the left side is more space than at the right side). As color sheme, I would recommend purple (your interior shop wall color) for the body (bed, sidewalls, rims) in combination with black for the chassis parts and the fenders.

Happy to find someone that loves the solveing of problems. God bless!

As far as putting the trailer up on your lift, go sideways. put one in front of the axle and one behind, parallel with the axle using the frame as the lift points.

In all honesty I love the way you view things. You can't tell alot about someone just on the way they look or handle certain situations. For example instead of seeing all the bad missing bolts, broken welds, rotten wood and rust everywhere. You looked for the positive like tires and welling to see something good could be made out of it.

I have a suggestion for the trailer floor. What if you went to a junk yard and cut out the bottom of a old truck bed and used that? It would need a paint job but could be worth it. Be lighter than the wood flooring it came with too😀😀

This is something else, again! Nice project!😎

Can't wait to see what you do with the trailer.

Good luck Faye!! But if i see that trailer in front of me i'm changing lanes quick 😁

Nothing like trawling the wrecking yards for goodies greetings from the great sourthern land Australia 👍

Axel upgrade if you’re planning on hauling any significant amount of weight. Also paint it Purple of course!! I’m in the same boat you are I am building up a trailer I was given. Btw to plate a homemade trailer in Michigan you have to go to a registered scale like in a salvage yard and get the unladen weight of the trailer and that is what they base the plate fee off of.

I've followed your IG for a couple years now but never realized you did RU-vid until this video randomly showed up in the algorithm today. I was like , I know that girl! :)

newbie to ur channel. Just had to join, because of your energy, video editing, and creativeness!! Going to enjoy this trailer series! Merci

I love how enthusiastic you are about everything!

My buddy buys trailers cheap all the time. Buys them cheap and puts a little work into them and paint and flips them

This reminds me of a motorcycle trailer I made with my dad back in the early 70s. I towed it with my 72 Toyota Corolla. You have the potential for a really cool trailer. I noticed you mentioned burning some if the wood in your burn pit. You need to be careful about burning that painted wood. The paint could put out toxic vapours.

Awesome you share skills with young Larry's who WANNA do this stuff.So proud of the both of you,carry on your way world girl

One could haul a lot of chickens in a trailer like that

Go Faye!!!! Cant wait for a new vud of the work on the trailer

Good project - as you say, the only way is up! I don’t have a trailers now but when I used to have a couple I made a ‘trailer light board’ so the lights could be removed in one go if I needed to swap them to another trailer or remove them for maintenance or to avoid damage etc. Just a 6” wide board with the lights at each end and a couple of quick release mounting points. Short pig tail connector to plug it in to the trailer wiring. Was also handy if I was leaving it somewhere as I could remove it and throw it in the back of the truck so anyone thinking of stealing it would have no lights or turn signals.

Get a generic title for a home made trailer. I built a fourteen foot home made trailer with tandem axles. If I am not mistaken I used two five thousand pound axles, and one of the axles had electric brakes. Welded on a spare tire stand, and welded on a two inch bulldog hitch. Installed six inch by fourteen feet by two inch thick planks. Drilled holes through the planks and through the two inch square tubing by quarter inch thick cross members, and bolted on six inch by three eighths inch carriage bolts. It took me a while, bit got it completed on a weekend.

Always love the stuff, you put in after the credits - for the trailer , paint it candy red and add JDM wheels...

Any film that ends with chickens doing what they do best is great. Nice Blue Cochins.

Your love for car and chicken math never seems to amaze me

Hey Faye, wow that thing‘s pretty rough definitely worth 100 bucks i’ve been pulling a trailer for over 15 years not sure what kind of tail lights you got I’m hoping they’re LED Best upgrade I ever did Super bright especially the back up lights no loose bulbs I think I’ve had mine for seven years now never an issue. I definitely strengthen up the tailgate as well I’m thinking three more vertical supports would do nicely anyways can’t can’t wait to see what you do most of the best project start out pretty rough always a good feeling to save something from the junk have a great one 🐔🐔🐔👍

Awesome project! I did something similar with a boat trailer I picked up for $50. Barely got it home, one tire didn't want to hold air. Welds were all good so just had to clear off rust, paint and then build a wood frame to go on top, and replace the wheels and fenders. I also cut about 3 feet off the tongue to make it a little more manouverable (sp?) when going through the woods - I use it behind my ATV when going into the hunt camp. Altogether it probably cost me $250-$300, brand new a comparable trailer would have been $800+. As for registering, I was able to register it easily as a "home-built trailer". They didn't even ask to see it. That's here in Ontario Canada.

After a long day replacing logs for posts on a Stairway to a deck and the mother-in-law apartment I stumbled on your video you're awesome I subscribed it was like a big big light in my face after my day awesome good luck with the trailer

Always a pleasure to watch you, hi from Melbourne.

In all seriousness this is entertaining must catch the next episode 👍

Replace the front draw bar with a 4x4 square tube and triangle it for strength also I'd go with a post for the winch and have a couple of hook points so you can use a snatch block to double the winches power if needed. Also if you put a jack attachment point on the back of the trailer it'll prevent the trailer from tipping while loading and off loading while hooked up or unhooked from a vehicle

I would replace the trailer to tounge with some sort of box tube for strength the round tube tends to bend to easily. Also I've done this to a couple of trailers. I welded on loops that hold the cable on pipe/cable fence lines. Since you live in TX you should be able to find them at your local tractor supply, orchlens, or metal suppliers or any place with farm or ranch supplies. They are easy to weld on and they will hold any load you put on that trailer. I would say about 500lbs per loop holding capacity. And depending on the loop size/style you can have a tie down point evey 3 to 5 inches if you Want. I wish I knew how send a picture of what I'm talking about. And I can't believe that small utility Trailer manufacturers don't already put them on or at least be an option.

Awesome series Faye, can't wait till part 2!!

I was curious to see what you were gonna start with. You are right.. nowhere to go but up!! I have a popular video I made on mods to my single axle trailer. I think you might dig it for some inspiration on this little project. Good luck!

Shorten it. That long neck is causing the cracking. Also look into Timbreen suspension. They will run about $500, but it rides like it's not even back there.

This trailer makes the trailers I have passed up look good.

That's a find..for the cost of a tank of gas..when you're finished it will be worth its weight in gold because of the use you'll get from it..🙂

I've been looking for cheap trailers for the past several months. My yard and garage are tiny, and I'll need to empty them to build an addition to the garage (storage catch-22!) so I'm aiming to put everything on wheels to stash at friends' houses during construction. So far, I got a pop-up camper chassis with a wooden deck for $100, and a cut-down Ford Ranger trailer for $350. The best parts are that the Ranger trailer has a good bed that I don't need, people charge $300 for solid Ranger rear frame sections here in New England, and it has really good leaf springs that can replace the tired ones on the 180+k Ranger that I use to tow it. It's actually way too high with the good springs, so I think the worn ones will be just right for the much-lighter trailer.

When I finally thought of a small trailer Illinois jacked up the registration fees so high that I clearly decided Illinois doesn't need more money.

Trailer jack, mount which up off deck a bit so cable does not drag on trailer floor

I remodeled a hole house with a 2nd Gen 4runner (gutless) and a $300 HF trailer. Little trailers are so useful. Now I have a one ton dully (same mpgs as the 4 runner) but am thinking about selling it and just going back to the little trailer.

You are so cute and excited. I would be super excited at $100 trailer of any sort

Definitely some fine engineering going on with that trailer. Still a good price though

You’re amazing Faye!!

This def has to be the greatest inspection vid of all time !!!!!

I know that with your dedication and intelligence that equipment will be better than new! I admire you more every day!

It reminds me of several homemade trailer my Dad had over the years. I think you should paint the same awesome color green you have in your hair!

Just came across your channel and had to subscribe. Who know maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks. LOL Love seeing you using what you can to make this $100 trailer into a diamond in the rough. Who knows maybe even a tool box on the trailer tongue to help strengthen it. Great job .

For a $100 that’s a good deal. You probably made money on it. Which seems crazy. Fun video!! I love your channel

🤔 looks interesting in here, think I'll stick around awhile. Make sure those hubs are greased and sound 😬 Looking forward to the build.

I wish I was there to laugh at everything u found especially the wire going the fender omg 😆😂

You can buy trailer hitch tubing ( the female end ) in bolt on styles or tubing you can weld up how you like... these accept a standard 2" tube ( like the ball is bolted on )... you make your winch on a male tube you can then slide into any Female 2" receiver on any vehicle ..or into your trailer ( you mentioned a front mount to winch stuff up onto trailer ).. these parts are pretty cheap and you pin them in in seconds ... if you have the smaller trailer hitch setup...those are also available ( or adaptors to fit either size..) ..

There you are! Missed seeing you! 🤪😍😁

The funky tape is "Flex Tape". Brought to you by the marketers of "Flex Seal", the screen door boat builders.

Visit HF for trailer gear. Obviously you want D rings/mounting points. You might want a small battery tray for a removable lithium battery for the winch. I actually like to go tall on trailer wheels (if it’s not for ONLY local usage) so that bearings spin slower. Plus it’s better for questionable terrain. Don’t forget a spare tire! Do you want a large gear rack? For things like extra boards or leverage devices? Maybe an ammo can or two for straps and such.

Look into bump stops and shocks. It seems like you might haul a few heavy things. I would totally make a junk yard trip for those. Many parts houses have complete trailer breaks backing plate to studs. That might be something to look at later

This worm is MINE!! Lol 🤣😆