Back in June last year I really thought it would be useful to have a trailer (having just killed my first pick up truck I missed the load carrying capacity) I wanted a braked one so there was a little more potential for carrying heavier items as I can see myself wanting a 1tonne bag of sand or pallet of bricks at some point.
I scoured ebay looking for a bargain and after a few weeks managed to win an absolute shed of a thing from the arse end of nowhere for twenty quid. It was so covered in leaves in the advert it was hard to tell it's condition but I was promised the tyres held air and the wheels rolled.
Here she is on the way home, the bed is 4ft x 6ft which is a nice size and there is no weight plate on it.
I drove it home and as you can see the ply is rotten to f*ck but it manuvered easily
Both tyres are f*cked, like I can get my finger in the cracks where the tread has split although a year on they are still holding air
I ripped all the wood off by hand TBH it practically fell off it was that bad and showed the metalwork didn't look particularly brilliant but it was hugely thick like 3mm on the upper and 5mm on the lower.
I priced up what it would cost to sort, decided I couldn't be arsed and then dumped it in the corner of the garden and forgot about it until yesterday when I decided I'd clean up the rust and paint it using some of the many cans of Hammerite that are rusting slowly in my workshop. I also chopped the ladder rack from the front as I didn't like the look of it.
Doesn't she look lovely in multi colours
It made a lovely workbench while I chopped up a sheet of 18mm structural ply for the floor, front wall and half the tailgate
I used a whole £18 tin of black hammerite for the top coat, it's amazing how much there is to paint, and she looked pretty smart if I do say so myself.
And the wood is currently receiving it's first coat of yacht varnish which apparently needs 24 hours before it can have it's second coat so doing both sides is going to take me 4 days but should mean that it is waterproof and lasts at least as long as the original stuff.
I've got no idea how old the trailer is but I'm certain that the top is more recent than the actual frame and axle as the welding isn't the best and more obviously it isn't straight on the frame. The wheels are a very small 4 stud pattern that isn't anything I'm familiar with like 4x4", 4X100 so I can't work out if it's car bits or just old trailer bits.
I scoured ebay looking for a bargain and after a few weeks managed to win an absolute shed of a thing from the arse end of nowhere for twenty quid. It was so covered in leaves in the advert it was hard to tell it's condition but I was promised the tyres held air and the wheels rolled.
Here she is on the way home, the bed is 4ft x 6ft which is a nice size and there is no weight plate on it.
I drove it home and as you can see the ply is rotten to f*ck but it manuvered easily
Both tyres are f*cked, like I can get my finger in the cracks where the tread has split although a year on they are still holding air
I ripped all the wood off by hand TBH it practically fell off it was that bad and showed the metalwork didn't look particularly brilliant but it was hugely thick like 3mm on the upper and 5mm on the lower.
I priced up what it would cost to sort, decided I couldn't be arsed and then dumped it in the corner of the garden and forgot about it until yesterday when I decided I'd clean up the rust and paint it using some of the many cans of Hammerite that are rusting slowly in my workshop. I also chopped the ladder rack from the front as I didn't like the look of it.
Doesn't she look lovely in multi colours
It made a lovely workbench while I chopped up a sheet of 18mm structural ply for the floor, front wall and half the tailgate
I used a whole £18 tin of black hammerite for the top coat, it's amazing how much there is to paint, and she looked pretty smart if I do say so myself.
And the wood is currently receiving it's first coat of yacht varnish which apparently needs 24 hours before it can have it's second coat so doing both sides is going to take me 4 days but should mean that it is waterproof and lasts at least as long as the original stuff.
I've got no idea how old the trailer is but I'm certain that the top is more recent than the actual frame and axle as the welding isn't the best and more obviously it isn't straight on the frame. The wheels are a very small 4 stud pattern that isn't anything I'm familiar with like 4x4", 4X100 so I can't work out if it's car bits or just old trailer bits.