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Here's a detailed log of how to build a utility trailer. Includes a free AutoCAD drawing, materials list, parts list, as well as lots of pictures. Glen writes "I needed a trailer to haul around a snowmobile so I decided that I might get better use out of a general utility trailer instead of a snowmobile trailer. I checked the local trailer retailers and found that the going rate for a 5' x 10' utility trailer was around $1,300 Cdn. The trailers weren't very strong and were made mostly from light angle iron. Always looking for a good project, I decided to build one instead." Link.
HOW TO - Build a utility trailer
Here's a detailed log of how to build a utility trailer. Includes a free AutoCAD drawing, materials list, parts list, as well as lots of pictures. Glen writes "I needed a trailer to haul around a snowmobile so I decided that I might get better use out of a general utility trailer instead of a snowmobile trailer. I checked the local trailer retailers and found that the going rate for a 5' x 10' utility trailer was around $1,300 Cdn. The trailers weren't very strong and were made mostly from light angle iron. Always looking for a good project, I decided to build one instead." Link.
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Dec 12, 2005 05:23 AM
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Anyone get this link to work?
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Dead link for me.
If you have a Harbor Freight in your town, they have some reasonably priced trailers. $250 for this 1200 lb rated 4x8 model:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=90154
Cheap Chinese junk, but...cheap.
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Keep in mind you get what you pay for. When we sold these type of trailers to get a good 5x8, the price was $850. You can buy cheap tube steel, thin gauge, but you are just asking for problems.
Check out our site if you are looking for enclosed trailers:
Millennium - Enclosed Race Car Trailers
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you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
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you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
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you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
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That is coming from someone that can't even spell "professionals"?
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yes you can build your own trailer i build them all the time and i am no perfessinal i just weld at school and home so you can build your own
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yes you can build your own trailer i build them all the time and i am no perfessinal i just weld at school and home so you can build your own
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yes you can build your own trailer i have buit 2 and am working on another 1 ive been working on it for 1 year becouse i use give away scrap i sold 1 he uses it to haul hay
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I realize this thread is old, but I could not help myself after reading Bob's remarks. I had to force myself to stop laughing to comment to this thread.
Hey Bob, wake up man!
I am an ordianry person with some college, none of it in aviation, yet I have built three full-sized airplanes and obviously lived to tell you about it. So if I can build three airplanes, why can't I build a trailer? Maybe you should have said that YOU can't build a trailer.
Sorry, but I'm going back to start laughing again. I hope Bob reads this.
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