Welding & Decking - Urban Logging Trailer Build Pt 4 

Have a great Christmas, everyone!

I built my tinyhome trailer the same way on the pivot after watching your video, thanks for the idea.

I like the way you’re doing the ad reads...VO with your content still playing on screen. We actually didn’t have to fast forward through the ads. Well done.

i'm impressed with your rotisserie, it looks so simple yet handles all the weight. i had started looking up trailer builds to get ideas on building one and ran across your channel...it has helped me so much. i'm a pretty decent welder and have built a lot of things but never a trailer...thanks for the help

How could anyone dislike your video? Miller fans? store-bought trailer fans? aluminum trailer fans? Seriously, you are so thorough you have earned all of our upmost respect. Andrew Camrata would be overjoyed!

That rotisserie setup is genius. Definitely going to copy that on my next trailer build if you don't mind!

Who do you hang out with? I’m a fire fighter and sitting at the kitchen table with other guys we bounce idea off each other all night long. You must have ppl you talk with to get these ideas? If not, you are one smart guy.

Wine differentiation is an excellent EXPERIENCE. Steve O'Donnel provided the experience from his own collection of $5.00 bottles -- included many first growth Bordeaux. His collection was created by searching out of the way package stores -- I did the same from "3 for bins". Have fun sharing your experience -- remember that the only bad wine is what you spit out. Merry Christmas.

Stick welding isn't easy but can be very satisfying when you've mastered it, learned from my dad when I was 12. Great skill to have in your toolbox. Fantastic build, but I think The Rotisserie takes the cake. Smart use of scrap. . .impressive by any standard

That’s a cute skid steer

The rotisserie idea is awesome & that mini skid looks like so much fun to operate. Great work :)

Matt I guess I am getting a big wake up call on the many people that watch your weekly video's I have been in a big part of my life a Master Machinist,welder ,electrical ,repair Small shop backhoe,bulldozer owner service and a big reloader and shooting sports as well as a ham radio operator ,and if I can't find a part I make it. Also Have a 14 in lathe and a small mill with 50 years of tooling too keep it going.I am 70 years old and it makes me feel really great that people came back to me threw your video with a remark that is with out words very dear to me. n2wjs Charlie.

It is impressive what one guy can do with some planning and ingenuity! Truly impressive work sir. I look forward to the next phase.

The secret to vertical uphill welds is practice till you get pissed then practice some more . Don't be so hard on yourself they are probably better than you think.

The magnitude of this trailer, and building it alone proves that you are a heck of a worker, love your precision and ingenuity, your welding is great, but you did not showed the welds when you switched to mig...I am certain they are perfect...I prefer mig welding, you can go on and on, no sticks to change...great work young man! Cant wait to see the next video!

So fortunate to have made the sawmill and trailer when you did. Steel prices these days are nuts!

I'm pretty sure you'll be able to transport a small tank when you're done. Excellent job.

It was watching your welding...that I realized how hard I was suppose to hit the scaling off the welds. So just this weekend, I was working on turning my old car into a snow plow and I really hit those welds hard to knock off the scaling. Excellent.

You are an amazing woodworking, metal fabricating McGuyver, actually. You better than McGuyver 💯💯💯. Your awesome please keep the vids coming Matt🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏. I'm still learning Everytime you put up another vid. God Bless n Happy Work Dat

Can’t wait until the next video

The trailer rotisserie is amazing

I enjoy your videos. You seem to have the right tools for each task.

I often weld at a family member's place because I'm renting an apartment and don't have room to otherwise, but I only ever manage to go there at the end of the day and thus get little daylight time. So what I ended up doing is just make a cable with a nice powerful lightbulb at the tip that I hang over my shoulder from the back. It's great for welding, and especially since it's so close and bright, I can usually see the work even with my helmet on. Because I have a long cable on the bulb I can just hang it from a high place and get good ambient lighting that way for when I switch to grinding or lining things up. I do relatively small stuff that I can move around so shadows aren't often a problem, but lamps and electric cables are cheap and durable so you could get a few more sprinkled around. So yeah, in short if the sun going away bothers you as much as it bothers me and you just wanna keep working until people come tell you to stop grinding because they're trying to go to sleep, then perhaps give that a go. With proper lighting it might even look good on youtube

Usually I pass over welding videos but I am quite intrigued on this trailer build. Nice job!

I would haul that frame to your nearest hot dip galvanizing plant. I had my frame hot dipped galvanized for a very reasonable fee and it lives outside, near the coast and it is bombproof against weather. I never need to worry about scratching it either. The heavy zinc coat is very robust. For your envisaged use galvanizing is a good option. You would need to consult with them about piercing closed spaces to avoid explosions due to air expansion.

Building it for D-Day. Wow going to handle monster logs with ease.

that's some very nice work there buddy

Your video reminds me of myself. It's real out there you're in your yard making things happen I believe in you dude!

Little comment on your stick welding, As you burn the stick and it gets shorter, try to move your hand/arm to maintain the angle between the stick and your welding area, As I see I it in your video, you turn your hand as the stick gets shorter and the angle changes from maybe 45 to 90 degrees. You do not want to weld at 90 degrees. Move your arm and maintain a 45 degree angle

Dude. Excellent idea with the turning jacks or horses.. That was a unique move.

I think that trailer could withstand a direct hit from a nuclear warhead. Good idea to use the metal decking. Will make the logs slide on much easier when loading them. The trailer is coming along great.

Matt the work looks great with all the weight of the trailer and the logs you will be hauling you might want to look into trailer breaks less ware and tare on the truck

Matthew is a metal/wood worker Par Excellence

Good Job Matthew!... 20F ? that's not cold.. This is cold...(shows him Minnesota)..

Good job Matt, it's really starting to look like a trailer and not a bunch of metal welded together. Bring on the next video! !! !!!

Excellent work like always!!! ⛰🦅

Looking great! I'm jealous already. You may want to consider enclosing the gusset at the front of the tongue so that you don't create an area that will collect debris and hold moisture against the metal there.

As far as the welding ,a E-7024 would have been a good choice being though you positioned everything in the flat position..great job..

What a fantastic idea to be able to spin it around.

Very nicely engineered and executed. Watching you work it is obvious that appearance is (almost) as important as function. I totally agree! Suggestion (although you may be way ahead of me on this): Add a second gusset behind the crossmember on the hitch arms to mount an electric winch with remote control to manhandle logs that need a little persuasion during loading or tie down. We run the wiring through felxible non-metallic liquid tight conduit like Seal Tight, using the weather tight fittings as much as possible. Water pipe or metallic tubing and duct seal is not as weather tight or as clean an installation. On heavy duty trailers we run the Sealtight inside water pipe for the longer runs down the length of the trailer to the tail, license plate, and back-up lights.

Hey you have a Frenchie. We have 4 of the little buggers and each has a unique personality.

Trailer is looking good man.

That steel deck, wow! Good thing you bought the big truck!

Hi Matthew excellent video and you have a great work ethic that trailer will be so strong Merry Christmas to America from the U.K. Regards Steve U.K. London

nice job . it doesn't hurt to add extra weld like you did. but you definitely got enough weld on the coupler area. if you look at production trailers, you got it done. and your coupler channel mount seems thicker then most ive seen. which is good.

Merry Christmas. 😊👍👍👍🎅 When you do the wiring . I like to use three junction boxes. 1 in front 1 between the axles and 1 at the rear . Makes things easier in the long run. And do like some. Adhere to a color code. This is the code i use . Brown is TM Yellow is LT Green is RT White is GD Blue is Brake Red is Axillary Black is back up lights. This is the code I use. What ever you use follow it For your convenience. 😊

Thanks for sharing that, heavy duty, good for you!

You and Mrs. Clause enjoy the holidays with your sons and daughter. The build is coming along nicely. About vertical welds, gravity has an effect. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome build and great design. Can't wait to see the finished product. I picked up a couple of pointers watching your weld construction. Thanks.

Cool young man great job

I love stick welding 7018. Pure joy.

thank you Matt .happy holidays

7018 is a perfect choice for trailer fabrication

This is a very heavy duty trailer for sure!

Matt, Maybe it’s too early to mention this but how do you plan on taking care of the rust? Are you going to get the trailer powder coated? On your previous video, WOW, a Mag Drill! Boy do you have all of the toys! Great videos. Take care and stay warm.

Wow. Your new tag line ought to be "Happy Extreme Backyard Fabrication". You are an impressive person doing amazing things. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

this guy has a brush for his trailer merry christmas everyone love u

just wanna say one thing other than this a great build. Get it galvanized! the only real way to protect all of your hard work.

Wow! Good job man!! 🤠👍

Merry Christmas Matt. Awesome build. I hope you have that entire trailer sprayed top to bottom with LineX premium when your done. It deserves it. Can’t wait to see it at work when your finished.

Merry Christmas

Please consider purchasing electricians ladders, which have a fiberglass frame. So much conducting metal in this scenario.

Nothing too strong, ever broke. :) you will definitely be able to carry logs, skid steers, backhoes, anything w/i your skill set. carry on.

This video is awesome! Welding, trailers, dudes....they just go together. 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎

That is one hell of a tough trailer build. With the angle of the back of the deck and frame it reminds me of a 1958 Chrysler Imperial rear end.

Man that trailer is looking great. Any luck on the house hunting? MERRY CHRISTMAS.

I love Matt's Metal Working page!! =)

Have a tip for you Matt Buy a big bottle for your welder. Then get an adapter to fill the little ones(flea bay) it’s way cheaper that way. I use just 100% argon so don’t need to switch around for aluminum Works fine! Just make sure your tanks are inspected during the normal intervals And watch your pressure ratings. Seems like there are more 02 bottles out there than argon so I had my tank certified and switched to the right valve at that time. You will find that some places will give you crap about titles and all that crap just look around you might need to drive a bit to get a supply house without bs.

Love your rotisserie design, quick n easy and strong. I to am building a trailer and want all the weld in a flat position.

Trailer coming along nicely

I have sawdust running through my veins and have done very little work with metal but I really enjoy watching you as you build your trailer. Very impressive. Merry Christmas!

Looking great so far! FYI if you want to save time plug welding plate onto tube in the future, depending on how thick the plate the hole definitely doesn't need to be that big. Try a couple 5/8 or 3/4 inch holes in the corners. Enough with smaller 7018 rods to get a couple passes in

Nice work on the metric conversions when you are discussing the decking. Normally I just zone out when people start discussing measurements in old money.

Just WOW!!!!

So I know it was only for your decking but standard protocol for structural welding is if it's below 30 degrees you have to pre-heat your workpiece before welding.

Another great video. Thank you! )))

Trailer is looking good. Merry Christmas

Great work Matt, surprised you didn’t add any type of rust preventer before placing your deck on, looks great, have a great holiday with your family

Looking Good Matthew... Merry Christmas to you and all your family

Well done 👍

you get good machines !!

Nice work with the frame/tongue fish plate!

Most of the time I have no clue what you are talking about, but I enjoy the quality of your work and your obvious love of what you do. Merry Christmas to the entire Cremona family and many blessings upon you.

Great work! Thanks for taking the time to make, film, edit and share.

nice stands great work!!!

Nice job on the trailer Matt. Merry Christmas!

Nice work!

Awsome trailer have a merry Christmas

Awesome my man great work

Have a great holiday!🎉🎊🎁

Merry Christmas Cremona Family! Now 2 observations, your neighbors must hate you, Lindsey must be an angel.

Good idea welding it in the flat or horizontal positions, a lot of fab shops would have done the same, as you can really turn up your heat and sink that weld in to get better penetration, and it’s just a lot more comfortable. We are doing something similar at our shop by flipping a dock gangway to weld in horizontal and flat, except it’s 75 feet long.

Nice work

Merry Christmas Matt

Thank you for your RU-vid channel and may you and your family have a Very Merry Christmas.

Apart from loving your work, I just can't help but wonder what your neighbours must think, "hey that crazy guy next door is out in the snow welding and talking to himself again" 😂 Merry Christmas 🎅

Could you please drop a video of the rotisserie build. Nice trailer by the way

This is what I saw about a month ago ! Nice job Matt.

Matt, you are a perfectionist and the welding certainly demonstrates that. A very Merry Christmas to you and your family..

Like I said before, excellent planning! Great job Matthew Cremona