Toy Haulers have 2x4 steel tube frames around the door openings with 1.5x1.5 door frame structures with a 1.5x1.5 angle frame for the seal. There is a poly hose gaskets around the door you can get at most RV centers. Placing a double tube at 1/3 intervals was an excellent choice. I removed the sloped floor in my trailer because I didn't want to loose the floor space. And I removed the beaver tail flaps. They are just a place to allow rot and most machines can climb over a 2" lip. I have a drop in board in the door gap for when it's down. Looks like your doing a pretty good job.
Interesting series! Seeing what the bones of a trailer has been educational and fun. She is sure looking a 1000% better. Can't wait to see the finished product.
Looks like you've almost cracked it. What a fantastic job. You could make a lot of money repairing and selling a few of these. Everything you turn your hand to looks great when finished, it's a credit to you. Another great video
Man, they really hammered that trailer. That's exactly why you use a car trailer for hauling cars and a plant trailer for hauling plant, like mini diggers...
Looking good! It's a lot of work, but as you said, it will be the difference between so-so and having done it right. In the end it always pays off to do it right. Thanks for the good update.
Love seeing the progression of your work, keeping the rear door functional is a smart move! Be extra careful with those torsion springs, they store a tremendous amount of energy and you can easily lose a limb or eye if things go awry.
Nice. A friend worked as a mechanic for a lawn care company for many years, and if there's a group of people that'll use up, abuse and destroy equipment, it's lawn care or tree service. They kill everything...mowers, chain saws, trailers...the trucks, you name it.
That is excellent work as always. Love your videos. Can't wait for the next one. That trailer is going to be better than new. Well worth your time and money. It will be done right and last a lifetime. 👍🏼👍🏼
LMFAO, as soon as I saw you lunge the kabota towards the door I said "OOPS" at the same time as you did in the video, I did the same thing a few years ago, lol. Awesome stuff, your videos are like a time-machine for me. :)
Is that a Homesteader trailer? Looks like it from the way it is made. I just bought a 2023 model and have had it in the shop since the day I bought it. My shop because I don’t want who ever builds these to do the repairs on my new one. Getting a lawyer would have been easier. Good job on yours and thanks for the video
Nice job salvaging what you could.As you know,there's lots of people out there that just put lipstick on the pig.Too bad that corporate greed prevents us from having quality products to buy like we used to.
You were probably way better off just cutting it off at the hinge pins and throwing it away, and just frame a whole new door from the get-go. Would've took half the time and headache.. On a side note that setup you have to transport metal is so cool!!
Mustie i have set a number of things on fire welding cuting and grinding including myself. i was going to suggest you consider some diamond plate on the floor so you don't roast your investment. Otherwise it looks great. Oh one more thing if you paint the cables that lift the gates yellow it will slowly fall off but it saves you from many stumbles I have one and it worked great.
I'm glad you said you sat there for 1/2 hour and look at it to come up with a plan because I do that often and thought I just wasn't good enough or tackle projects over my head but in fact is how (our brain) works to solve problem. ** I am just writing this to maybe help someone who can relate to what I have written and always wondered why or how things just seam out reach or you ever said to yourself I could never learn this or that ** I know its off subject just had learning issues my whole life with no success no matter how many books I read on the subject until I went to college after my enlistment in the USAF back in the 90's. Before the VA would pay for my schooling I needed to go to adult education classes, basically to brush up on the core subject for the best possible success at obtaining a degree and not wasting the tax payers money. Long story short at the learning center they had a psychologist on staff because you half to remember all of us served in the military and some in the gulf War so they needed to make sure what we were going to study was a good choice and that when the psychologist ask if I ever was diagnosed with ADHD, no I said and they determined after months of different tests during my refresher class at the learning center I had ADHD. Now that would explain just about all my issues I had as a boy in school except at the time they called it a trouble maker and class disrupter, lol Wasn't happy to take medication every day but did with life changing effect just wish they know about this 40 years ago but never to late I guess. I've been told I am to hard on myself and to a degree but if you don't push your creative or problem solving areas of the brain that area of the brain will become less apt at solving problems while affecting how well our short term memory retains what you've learned and later processed into long term memory.
I have not finished watching this but I just saw you take the bottom door panel off I know it's 2 years old musty, but I pray to God you take the door apart and rebuild it because I got a door that is not in nowhere near as bad of shape is yours is and I'm curious as to what it looks like underneath the entire door and how easy it is to fix also
Yes Sir, I like it! Oh yeah!!! So glad you decided to keep it as a ramp and not permanent wall. The framing looks great! I learned something from you regarding putting the outside frame in place to line everything up THEN do the inside structure! Really Nice work! Didn't you say you were going to put grease zerks on the hinges?
Mustie, Been catching up and I've become a fan. I like the way you share what you are thinking. I found you while looking for Lawn tractor information. watching you make one out of two gave me some of the nitty gritty re; mechanics. would have liked to see you actually taking out a motor as I jusy had to replace the drive belt. Never did this before but I use to work on cars in the alley in chicago when I was a kid. Looks like you are in New Hamphsire? Do you have a web page? Thanks. A new fan!
Nice job so far. Are you considering selling it as a cargo trailer or are you going to continue making it your mobile welding/work shop? Also like the idea of the 3 doors think if you welded one shut that would be the one you would need, Murphy's law and all that crap.
I know this is a late comment, but whoever said that trailer could handle the weight of any underground equipment, --trenchers, cable plows, even the small ones that are walk along types, was full of shit. Those things are incredibly heavy.
split the door in 1/2 an hinge it on the side to swing open . if u need to load atv build some ramps an hang them on back side of doors when not in use . the frt ramp seem to work fine an i think it be easier
why not go with a fancy steel decotive front door the kind with the side panels in door frame n you could then have this on back of your trailer as a new door n put on a scurity screen door so when your camping you dont have ta worry bout small critter climing in and buggin u .......
Im very supprised that you didnt just rip it out from the start and remake the whole door, if you will be using it as a ramp its gotta be really good not to bow. Its gotta be up to the mustie1 A1 standard lol :-D 150% better than original :-D :-D.
