I figure since I use it for gathering my firewood it would fit here.
As some of you may remember back in 2011 I took an old camper frame and turned it into a 5'-8 x 10' 7K light duty dump trailer. It served me well until last fall when I over loaded it with some gravel for my driveway and the rear of the frame collapsed on the spring hanger due to rust in the frame, it was 2x6 rectangle tube, thin wall. Long story short I am building a new one, much heavier and a bit bigger.
This one will be built out of all new steel and the dimensions are 6.6'x12' with about 18" sides (more on that later)
6" channel for the main frame, 4" channel for the dump frame. I already have the cylinder I will use, it's a 5" bore by 30" stroke with a 2.5" rod, I have a DC power pack that I bought from a scrapper a good while back, it is basically brand new so I am going to try that. It will be power up with gravity down and my cylinder is a double acting so I will run a hose to the reservoir from the rod side of the cylinder to basically have more fluid on reserve. In the long term it will have a 6.5hp Predator (I have on shelf new) and a pump to run the dump and a crane of sorts to aid in lifting things into the trailer. I was given a pair of mobile home axles complete with springs, I bought new spring hanger kit from Redneck trailer supply and installed them, I soon found out that to convert the drums to take a regular rim and have brakes it was costly, I had Redneck make me some new #5200 axles with brakes I put them in today.
On with the pics, if you have any questions or want more info just hollar!
As some of you may remember back in 2011 I took an old camper frame and turned it into a 5'-8 x 10' 7K light duty dump trailer. It served me well until last fall when I over loaded it with some gravel for my driveway and the rear of the frame collapsed on the spring hanger due to rust in the frame, it was 2x6 rectangle tube, thin wall. Long story short I am building a new one, much heavier and a bit bigger.
This one will be built out of all new steel and the dimensions are 6.6'x12' with about 18" sides (more on that later)
6" channel for the main frame, 4" channel for the dump frame. I already have the cylinder I will use, it's a 5" bore by 30" stroke with a 2.5" rod, I have a DC power pack that I bought from a scrapper a good while back, it is basically brand new so I am going to try that. It will be power up with gravity down and my cylinder is a double acting so I will run a hose to the reservoir from the rod side of the cylinder to basically have more fluid on reserve. In the long term it will have a 6.5hp Predator (I have on shelf new) and a pump to run the dump and a crane of sorts to aid in lifting things into the trailer. I was given a pair of mobile home axles complete with springs, I bought new spring hanger kit from Redneck trailer supply and installed them, I soon found out that to convert the drums to take a regular rim and have brakes it was costly, I had Redneck make me some new #5200 axles with brakes I put them in today.
On with the pics, if you have any questions or want more info just hollar!