aczlan
Good Morning!
So, a while back I picked up a 22 + 2 deck over for cheap, needs a deck, tires, paint, some welding in a few of the cross members (welds for gussets are cracked), a jack and probably needs bearings / brakes refreshed.
The outfit the owned it was getting ready to move, hadn't used it in 12+ years and didn't want to move it.
I knew a little about it as I had used it when I worked for them back in the mid 2000s, from looks the registration paperwork it looks like it got used one more year and then parked in the back until I bought it.
Tag says 9,999 GVWR, two axles, short dove tail in the back with steel on the dovetail, wood on the rest of the deck, slide out ramps that go under the deck.
Amazingly, all the lights work (all grommeted lights), the brakes work and the tires mostly hold air.
Assuming he does the repaint of the little landscape trailer I sent over for a second time correctly, I plan to send it to a guy who will sandblast and paint it for under a grand.
Thought about doing myself, have discussed that on a couple threads on here, but with his price I don't see where it's worth it.
Before it goes there though, I want to make a few changes to it:
1. I want to add a place I can put a winch on in case I need to pull something on the trailer
2. Need to fix the welds on the cracked gussets
3. Want to add a box up front in the A of the frame to put chains and such in, they won't live there but that way they don't have to be in tow vehicle when I go somewhere with it (especially if things are wet)
4. Going to add a winch to hang the spare tire under the right front corner of the trailer, picked up a chain one off of a Toyota in the junkyard that appeared to have lived its life in Arizona and so surprisingly had no rust compared to everything else in the yard.
5. Going to make plans to rewire it, it has scotch locks underneath need I say more? I also have plans to add in some "loading lights" that can be turned on with a switch in the toolbox to light up around the trailer and the deck itself when loading after dark
6. Going along with number five, any advantage to putting a junction box for the wiring in the toolbox on the tongue, vs putting it directly behind and to the right of the jack (putting the junction box on one side of where the battery box is now and the battery box on the other side)?
7. Going to replace the attachment points for the chains with weld on ones and heavier chains, the ones on there (a bent piece of 5/16 rod) should theoretically be fine but I like overkill in the chain department.
A couple pictures to start things off:
The tongue of the trailer, picked up a trailer hitch for relatively cheap this week, think I'm going to cut a square hole in the front of the trailer and stick it through as little as possible, then (when putting a hitch or winch on there) you put the pin in from the front of the "front wall" at the front of the trailer.
Need to add a couple pieces of angle or c channel to go straight back from the frame rails to the front wall to mount the rest of the hitch to.
The front wall is just bent 1/8", so I don't think it's heavy enough to attach a trailer hitch or decent winch to.
A close up of the hitch kind of sort of sitting in place.
Any suggestions or errors that I should avoid while I am in the planning stages?
Aaron Z
The outfit the owned it was getting ready to move, hadn't used it in 12+ years and didn't want to move it.
I knew a little about it as I had used it when I worked for them back in the mid 2000s, from looks the registration paperwork it looks like it got used one more year and then parked in the back until I bought it.
Tag says 9,999 GVWR, two axles, short dove tail in the back with steel on the dovetail, wood on the rest of the deck, slide out ramps that go under the deck.
Amazingly, all the lights work (all grommeted lights), the brakes work and the tires mostly hold air.
Assuming he does the repaint of the little landscape trailer I sent over for a second time correctly, I plan to send it to a guy who will sandblast and paint it for under a grand.
Thought about doing myself, have discussed that on a couple threads on here, but with his price I don't see where it's worth it.
Before it goes there though, I want to make a few changes to it:
1. I want to add a place I can put a winch on in case I need to pull something on the trailer
2. Need to fix the welds on the cracked gussets
3. Want to add a box up front in the A of the frame to put chains and such in, they won't live there but that way they don't have to be in tow vehicle when I go somewhere with it (especially if things are wet)
4. Going to add a winch to hang the spare tire under the right front corner of the trailer, picked up a chain one off of a Toyota in the junkyard that appeared to have lived its life in Arizona and so surprisingly had no rust compared to everything else in the yard.
5. Going to make plans to rewire it, it has scotch locks underneath need I say more? I also have plans to add in some "loading lights" that can be turned on with a switch in the toolbox to light up around the trailer and the deck itself when loading after dark
6. Going along with number five, any advantage to putting a junction box for the wiring in the toolbox on the tongue, vs putting it directly behind and to the right of the jack (putting the junction box on one side of where the battery box is now and the battery box on the other side)?
7. Going to replace the attachment points for the chains with weld on ones and heavier chains, the ones on there (a bent piece of 5/16 rod) should theoretically be fine but I like overkill in the chain department.
A couple pictures to start things off:
The tongue of the trailer, picked up a trailer hitch for relatively cheap this week, think I'm going to cut a square hole in the front of the trailer and stick it through as little as possible, then (when putting a hitch or winch on there) you put the pin in from the front of the "front wall" at the front of the trailer.
Need to add a couple pieces of angle or c channel to go straight back from the frame rails to the front wall to mount the rest of the hitch to.
The front wall is just bent 1/8", so I don't think it's heavy enough to attach a trailer hitch or decent winch to.
A close up of the hitch kind of sort of sitting in place.
Any suggestions or errors that I should avoid while I am in the planning stages?
Aaron Z
