Upgrading an equipment trailer 

I have definitely gone down the rabbit hole on trailer videos today

The length of your fold down ramps will greatly affect how the equipment loads. Longer ramps give you a smoother load / unload...and are easier and quicker to to build or modify. Lengthen the ramps on your modified trailer for a much smother load/unload. Use blocks under your ramp as a gauge to determine how much longer to modify your existing ramps. You can also put short blocks under your unmodified ramps for a smoother load/unload with no modifications. Blue Sky's.

Absolutly love the long detailed videos Shawn, beensubbed for a while and your camera work has greatly improved along with the fact that your quaility of work truly stands out among other pros. Both on site and on personal projects. I can tell youd rather do it right the first time rather then nickle and dime a custom by having to come back repeatedly. love the work, channel, and community you have built on your platform. And i hope all who reads this finds your content as interesting as i have as well as sees just how hard working team you and your crew are! Much love from New Jersey!

I first started watching you because of your drainage work and those are still my most favorite but in close second place are these type videos where you build or modify something. As some one with no mechanical abilities/talents myself I love watching those that do. 😉

This man can do anything and everything he sets his mind to!

Your a pretty good small project guy but I would recommend a little heavier weld on the spring hangers and for sure on the hitch. Burn the weld hotter and wire feed up better penetration and maybe even a few more passes to beef it up.

Great video Shawn...I do love your trailer series. Watched this one about 3x now. You taking the time to show why really puts them heads above. Keep up the great work.

Wow, great job sir, a very hard working trailer, needs some lipstick, are you adding clearance lights. What an ending. Stay Safe.

Incredible workmanship and almost entirely by yourself! Excellent choice 14 ply tires! I like the orange color choice gives the trailer distinction.

You know, I wouldn't have thought lowering the trailer a few inches would have made that much of a difference but geeze it made a huge difference.

This was an amazing vid, seeing the seasons change along with the trailer. And the set for monologue at the end was on point. Simple, clean, felt right. Bravo!

Nice modifications Shawn, and the orange looks great with the black.

had vto wait till now get lower resolution enjoy ur films, worth the wait

Awesome job on the trailer. You are pretty good fabricator. I like orange on the fenders and hitch which it does make it look very unique. I have been following you for about 18 months now and I enjoy watching your videos. Cannot wait to see what is up next.

Great outcome, extra strong fenders with step side step up surface.

Another great video Shaun Thanks for sharing all your thought processes and neat solutions 👍

Orange has always been an underrated color. Love it!

I really enjoyed watching this video. Seeing someone with the skillset to do this is pretty cool.

Dude, I am AMAZED at your skills! Well done! Great video!!!

Once again Shawn, you have gone above & beyond. Talk about informative and thorough, not to mention entertaining as heck. Thanks for this great content buddy. We appreciate ya!

I put new finders on my trailer and modified it new paint and painted the finders different colors!! good video God Bless!!

Wow your fans like the way you do business and.Your quality of work and personal.Proud fans club keep up the great work.

I just found your video by looking up ideas for a car hauler trailer and this is by far the best detailed video I have found. Thank you sir keep doing what you are doing 👍 👏 🙌

Great Video !!!! Good job on the trailer !!!! Look forward to seeing more videos . Thank you

I actually just bought my first trailer which is a 1998 Hudson 16’ equipment trailer. After watching your trailer videos and your trailer build, I feel confident enough to add a 4’ or 5’ dovetail, make longer ramps for a better load angle, put the 95” wide 4” drop axles on it, redo the fenders for the added width and also add the Hopkins or Bunker charging breakaway system. Instead of the expanded metal tool tray though, I’m going to fab a big toolbox like you’d see on a Diamond C. The DOT around here don’t like tools and equipment just being in a tray without being fastened down. I’m also going to redo all the lighting and change it to LED and fabricate a winch mount that will probably be covered by the toolbox. Once I do all that, weld on quite a few D rings and repaint/re-decal it, I think mine will be complete. I really wish Hudson would have flipped the channel around though like you did when you built your trailer. I’d love to build my own one day like you did! Love the trailer and Ford truck videos! Keep ‘em coming!

Nice video! Being a retired RV Mechanic I know how difficult changing out the axels can be. I've done a few in my career, I don't think you have too much in that trailer. Any tool that makes the work easier and safer is well worth the expense. Thumbs up!

Great work on the Trailer, looks good Orange & Black 👍

I like the orange. Easy to identify your trailer if it's ever stolen.

You’ve done very well, better than few people who had degrees in engineering, designing and fabrication.

great detail, very good job.

Thanks for sharing!

what a fun video Sean. I don't know which is bigger, your brain or your heart. I like both of them. please keep it up.

another good job . I really like your build videos along with your others .

Awesome video. Can't wait for the next video in the equipment series.

Awesome color, it's definitely unique and its very easily identified

I think you should paint your next trailer neon pink. :) When welding though paint, you should probably wear a mask, or really whenever Mig / stick welding.

Color scheme is nis. Orange and black goes well together. Nice work mate!

Found that relaxing ,your work is top notch .

Love the orange, great job on the customisations

Awesome work on the trailer!

As soon as you started to paint the fenders orange I thought that was a great deterrent for theft. I live in NC also and totally understand your reasoning. Most trailers are black and they are dime a dozen when it comes to theft. I like it!

Just noticed you are under 100k subs. Pretty shocked thought you were well passed, great entertainment. Thanks and more please

Great mod,s to the trailer, the fender supports are much needed on most trailers, 6k is very cheap to end up with a nice trailer that works well.

Good for you doing it your way to the specs you want for the reasons you want - professional I say. Enjoy these types of vids as well.

love how it turned out

Red white and blue would look fantastic

I love the color. Really enjoyed the video

That was a GOOD job, and a good video, thanks.

Great video Shawn. Have a great day.

You know what is funny us RU-vidrs always seem to be a one man show, at least when it comes to builds. Funny how that works.

Def when entering the trailer lower bucket to deck height and as you approach fenders lift n drop over. Lowering the bucket will def help stability while loading

Multi-talented. Nice job.

Hey Shawn, everybody has those days. You can say that you don't have that many. Who ever built that Hot tub sure put to much money in it, thats to much concrete even for a swimming pool. Hey that lady is in need for some serious gutter work anyway. And like you said just chalk that one up to advertisement . Great Job!!!...

Great job Shawn 👍

Good job.

I watched 1+ hrs or your whole video lmfao I love welding and I love hauling trailers. I pull daily my tilt car hauler. And now it need drive over femders so that my next step Thanks for the new ideas like the wire mesh and changing coupler style

It looks great. Nice work

good job! the only thing I would suggest if the loading angle still bother you. air bags on the rear of the truck to lift the tongue of the trailer up and that lowers the back of the trailer or similar concept is to use a heavy-duty tongue jack to lift the tongue up for loading. one advantage of the tongue jack it acts as a brake. There's more than one way to skin a cat, LOL

The orange fenders look great

Just waiting for lower quality version to appear to enjoy this high quality video :) My computer just cannot handle the full res video

Great video Shawn. I like the GCFD Orange! Your time is worth more than that! So money well spent in my book. Plus the cost of steel now days. You'd be over 6k in raw steel now. Take care and keep up the good work. -Ryan

Orange is awesome.

I have the same trailer a 94 model and still in good shape

nice job,love the orange bits,can be a health safty feture ,as on a rainy day on the high way ,your trailer stand out to other road users ,orange bits ,we do that here in the u.k ,we call them markers ,mark out side of a verhicle ,in bad weather,is nice to have a work shop and tools ,to keep your buisness going and adapt equipment to suit your needs ,is sad people steal stuff and move to other ereas ,for resale,you could stamp your zipcode into the chassis ,and tell the police ,if it went missing ,what we do here in england ,we call it our postcode ,and door number ,is used on lots stuff ,bikes,welders,can be stamped or uv pen ,on house hold items ,police got blue light and try to find post codes,return to owners ,also get a small tracker now too,fits inside a mountin bike or car,boat,and when gets stolen,you can activate it ,use its onboard battery ,then find it on your phone or police man ,have you ever tried stick welding ,rods,that is good for heavy steel jobs,nice penatration,bite,cheap too,box rods ,weld outside ,in the wind ,6013 for steel or 7018 for structeral ,low hydrogen rods,im more of a stick man ,learnt that first ,learn mig after ,to fix cars,well your doing a fine job ,seem happy ,being self employd ,keep up the good work,you are good at teaching stuff,explain things ,share your wisdom ,knowledge ,you motivate others to have a go,try ,very good indeed

NICE WORK DONE ON THE TRAILER

I like your old axles

Good job man. Now that I’m retired I really like to watch you work and always do the little extra ☮️

Shawn, I would paint the fender underside black and put another piece of wire mess in the other hole and put a toolbox in it. if it was my trailer.. great job..

Great Video

and those gussets on the mudguards just happen to make very convenient steps.

Real cool Sean. Orange is good because it's close to red which had the longest wavelength. Hence a red light. Better for safety going down the road 🛣️. And theft it is a deterrent.

Nice! I would paint the ramps orange too.

I've been in a similar situation where things got just a little bit more expensive, but the results exceeded by expectations. Although on reflection you should have made the axels as close as possible to the table within reason to drop the height even more and those rear fold down ramps could have been extended out just a bit more, giving you a better loading angle.

22:40 LOL 🤣🤣 Been there, done that. The look on your face though 🤣

I have always backed my skid steers on a trailer to keep from tipping backwards. and lot safer.

Nice work. Many contractors back bobcat type loaders on to trailers, because of the rear mounted engine. Try it sometime.

ORANGE ……. I’m from a midwestern town that use to have a long time Allis- Chalmers manufacturing facility. The factory and Allis - Chalmers no longer exist. Many years ago the local high school dedicated its school colors to the A-C “Orange and Black” and still to this day the colors remain the same. I have always referred to your orange as Allis Chalmers orange. It certainly precedes the Kubota or U-Haul orange we see today. Some history for what it’s worth😊.

Great build, I would add another 1’ of length to each of the ramps.

Hi Shaun hope your well, you have made some great changes to the trailer, the colour looks good and the tow hitch is excellent, been a great video once again well done.

I have same trailer 16ft tri axle its factory the 80s i beam is great mine came with flat stock welded across the i beam every 2 feet for tie downs never had an issue

Wow what a great video, you are good at doing engineering work, it must save you loads of bucks, if you had to pay for someone to do this work for you. 👍👍👍

Too bad you couldn’t have gone to the Hudson trailer factory and convinced them to produce the Gate City Foundation Drainage edition trailer! PS - hope they are watching this video and taking notes!

If you made ramps a foot longer you’ll be in the sweet spot. Great job

Hey buddy. I believe your mistaken about having to charge the battery that was in there. I have a number of trailers as well and if the trailer is wired correctly and getting power on the hot lead it charges the battery. But the batteries do go bad over time. Love the channel. Keep them coming

i bet you would be very good steel fabrication worker, for someone don't do steel fabrication every day for work you are pretty good at it just saying

I'd love to see a video on how u got into welding and kinda teach us how to weld

Great job Shawn! The convenience of using that trailer and the piece of mind with employees hooking it up correctly will pay for itself tenfold. Color looks good, I was guessing that it was the new GCF color scheme or you were a Bengals fan. Because of the convenience and versatility of that trailer... It will probably be the first one to need tires.

Outstanding Shawn. I know putting all the time in to editing this video had to be a large undertaking. I really enjoyed it. I will keep an eye out for you and the trailer. I like the unique colors. I did not catch you saying how it tracked when you pulled it. Let us know. I bought a local made trailer after having a Hudson for many years and I have been considering buying another. I need to upgrade on GVWR.

Loading a skid steer, always better to load it by reversing onto the trailer so when unloading youre facing forward to go down the ramps. No need to worry about tipping backwards

Great upgrade, sure beats making it from scratch when you had most of it already. The one thing i would do is to make the lip on the front of the mesh box higher. ´ Keep up the good work.

Absolutely love your video . But You may should install the trailer lights

One nice thing about the tongue design on the car trailer is you can turn tighter without jackknifing (assuming a 4' tongue).

You are a real life Iron Man

good work

Hello from the Netherlands nice trailer Shawn thanks for the video . Sincerely Hollandduck

A new video! Nice!

Interesting, well shot and well edited video. I think you should've painted the trailer bright yellow with GCFD graphics.

It sounds like the exhaust back pressure sensor tube is plugged on your 6.0. Easy to clean out and will up your performance.

You get lucky on the finds that is for sure... Still needs your Logo somewhere on it. Nice 1/2 dovetail joints (notches) , Orange is good & was going to say where is the Yellow Before you said orange, Wiring is +...Sure wish they had that back in the 70's & 80's when i had all my trailers, i would be concerned the straps would bounce out etc etc by not having a taller rail around the basket do you keep a bungee cord around most of it all, Those tires are nice should last longer than regular ones / 500 seems like a heck of a deal for that how is the interior...Glad the truck is working out since pulling a knuckle and a few headaches on it...

Looking good love your videos You need to upgrade to a Takeuchi skid got a new tl 10 love it the Cadillac Of the skid steers