Roof

Well last night, dad and I were wondering around his shop, behind his shop, and around the property, when I spotted some galvanized metal roofing behind his shop. He said I could go ahead and use what I needed, so thats what i did.

First I found some really long pieces (16 footer) brought them out front, cleaned them up. I put one on the roof of the trailer and noticed that the other two were really banged up (most likely from the falling snow). I said to my self that maybe there are some nice flat un-crinkled piecies much like the one that I already had. When I went back I found three other peices that were just over 10 feet long and flat! I was pumped.

Here is a pic of them set on the roof supports for a dry fit (well, was dry until it was hailing on me). They will have to be fasened tomorrow on account of the shitty weather.

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Salvaged Tin Roof dry fitted. Total savings, about $100.00

Wow its been a week!

Ok, so I am really horrible with posting on time LOL

In the past week, I have removed the doors and hardware skinned the back wall and doors and reinstalled the doors and hardware.

Ive installed the brake/turn lights on the back (not wired up but meh that will come).

We were in the city on Monday and I bought more lights *rolls eyes*, these ones for the top (clearance lights if you may) 5 red for the back, and 5 amber for the front. I also found some sweet chrome bezels for the brake/turn lights on the back.

As I was shopping around, I came to realize how difficult it is to find 4" Round AMBER lights for turn signals, like WOW! No one has them, or they are special order.... I guess its off to EBay!\

Ill post pictures of the bezels and finished lights when i take them =D

Really not much to show, just a back wall with skins.

The chrome bezels I picked up

 Top Rear Clearance Lights

I have noticed that the wall is starting to buckle in some areas (damn moisture). I will be fixing this soon and slapping a coat of paint on them to help protect the wood.

Continuing On

Well, now that the side walls, roof, and front walls are built, time for the backwall. This one is a little bit more of a challenge because there are doors! Not one but 2!

The entire opening is 6ft tall, 6ft wide. That should be wide enough for the quad =)

Sorry for such an odd angle, the trailer is backed right up to the shot, so this was taken from inside.

And with the doors open.

Beefy Hinges. I had to add more wood supports next to the hinges because where the middle bolt goes through, there would only be part of the bolt in the frame which just wouldn't do.

I used carriage bolts for the hinges (had to modify them to fit the bolt) because the hinges are on the outside, as seen above, and now you cant 'unscrew' the hinges from the outside.

Ive also beefed up the frame between the doors just for added beefy-ness and this is where the lock will be going to lock the 'live' or 'swinging' door into the other door (which can be locked in place top and bottom).

And the deadbolt in place.

Roof Supports & Front Wall

Once the walls were secured through the floor to the frame, I was able to affix the roof supports to the tops of the walls.

Each support is secured to each wall with a carriage bolt this way there is a flat top so when the roofing material goes on, it remains flat.

Roof supports in place

A closeup.

Once the roof supports were in place, the front wall was then built and tapped in to place.

The front wall is built from 2x2s (and one really bowed one). The wall is then bolted to the floor using 5 hex bolts, (no metal under this section, just plywood) and to the front roof support using 3 carriage bolts.

Front wall fits like a glove!

Floor and Walls

After trying with the welder, and burning holes into the very thin existing frame. I broke down and asked my dad for some guidence.

Only after he did a couple of the welds, I figured out how to do some.

Once the floor supports were welded in place, the floor went on.

For the floor I upgraded from the 5/8 OSB, to 3/4 Plywood. A little more support, a little more stable.
2.5 sheets of plywood, a bunch of screws and a bunch of 2x4's we have floor and 2 sidewalls.

The walls are a little lop-sided, but they are not secured yet.

The floor is secured with 16 carriage bolts down the middle (6 in each 4x8 sheet, and 4 in the 2x8 sheet) through the metal floor supports. The walls will then be fastened with hex bolts through the footer of the wall, the plywood floor then the metal floor support. (again 6 through each 4x8, and 2 through the 2x8 the second one is a carriage bolt because of the placement of the studs in the wall.

New Supports

Because the old trailer didn't give much room for anything but the quad, and because the trailer was going to be rebuilt anyway - I decided to increase the size.

The old trailer had a deck that was 6 feet wide, 8 feet long. I am increasing this trailer an additional foot on all sides making it 8 feet wide, and 10 feet long. This means that the supports need to be longer, and since the supports are being replaced, why not?

$120.00 later, and there we have it 6 8 foot floor supports (2 inch angle iron) and an extra foot extension for the original frame.

THEN I tried to weld it.

Preparations for welding.

Another shot.

You can see how much wider the trailer is with the new support beams. I decided not to remove the existing crappy supports. The new floor supports are higher, and longer so the existing doesn't interfere. The only thing the existing supports do, is add some stability between the frame rails.

And it starts

Last year I bought an old tent trailer converted to utility trailer from my parents after we bought our quad (something to carry it around).

I stripped that trailer down to just frame, (it had sat for something like 10 years in the bush so everything was rotted out) and started to rebuild.

When we moved from our old place to this place, the last thing we moved was a 1200lb safe. Unfortunately over the winter, the safe sat in the trailer.

The trailer its self wasn't capable of holding this much weight, especially on 5/8 OSB! Once you add the spring melt, the crappy deck, and the weight of the safe, guess what happens? Yup, through the floor, bent the cheapo supports etc etc.

I then decided to rebuild it.. hefty hefty...

This is the original frame, the first trailer rebuild on the left. That grey box in the back is a 1200lb safe (and I forgot the combo!!!!)

Side view, with a better view of the first trailer. Not a bad unit, just enough room for the quad - not much else, canoe on the roof.

As I said, crappy supports, this one was bent from the weight of the safe, I bent it back into place by hand.