blue924.9
flannel wearin sumbitch
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i swear this thing is the handiest little thing on wheels i can haul. and built like a brick outhouse to boot. homemade 5x8 trailer, 5200 pound axle 2500 pound hubs, and the heaviest built frame i have seen in my life, i call it a triple frame honestly, the floor is out of a wrecked semi stock trailer, its aluminum with a cast in i beam frame, the runners on the aluminum floor frame run north and south ( or the long way up and down the trailer). then there is a double c channel frame that are welded together to basically form a u channel, this is on both sides of the outside runner on the floor frame, the double c channel frame and aluminum floor frame are bolted together with a bolt every foot around the entire outside perimeter of the trailer, the double u channel frame has cross members welded every foot, these are welded in face up so that they sit across the runners on the floor. finally there is a triangular frame welded to the double c channel frame that connects to the tongue of the trailer, all of this creates an incredibly strong frame, as a bonus every piece of steel on the trailer is not just regular steel oh no its hardened steel. however this may have a slight drawback, as last year i cracked the weld on the front left side of the trailer, so now after today and a bunch of welding i can say my trailer is even more overbuilt than it was previously. anyhow i'll get a pic of the trailer i happen to be bragging about in a bit, as well as my handiwork today lol.
i will i did a little experimenting with trailer suspension and went way out of the box with the suspension design on this one, rather than using the short little 1 inch shackle links on the trailer, i got some steel and cut custom 4 and a half inches shackles, this gave me increased suspension travel, so the springs have more weight capacity, and it also gave me a better shackle to frame angle, with the new links in there i have an 180 degree angle, the links are straight up and down. with the old links i was at about a 110 degree angle, this gave the suspension a poor angle and gave road forces for leverage to bottom out the springs relatively quickly, these springs are a in a pack of 5 so they are no light weight springs, yet with the poor angle i could squat the trailer considerably by standing on the corners, and a half a load of dried wood would bottom it out, so its a cheap and effective way to give your trailer a boost in spring capacity for about 15 bucks and maybe an hour in time with tool cleanup.
i will i did a little experimenting with trailer suspension and went way out of the box with the suspension design on this one, rather than using the short little 1 inch shackle links on the trailer, i got some steel and cut custom 4 and a half inches shackles, this gave me increased suspension travel, so the springs have more weight capacity, and it also gave me a better shackle to frame angle, with the new links in there i have an 180 degree angle, the links are straight up and down. with the old links i was at about a 110 degree angle, this gave the suspension a poor angle and gave road forces for leverage to bottom out the springs relatively quickly, these springs are a in a pack of 5 so they are no light weight springs, yet with the poor angle i could squat the trailer considerably by standing on the corners, and a half a load of dried wood would bottom it out, so its a cheap and effective way to give your trailer a boost in spring capacity for about 15 bucks and maybe an hour in time with tool cleanup.
