What's going on with this trailer?

maynah · Aug 14, 2018

I'm looking at used trailers and am not sure what is going on with this one.
It seems unusual there are no braces going from the outside of the front of the bed up to the tongue.
What used to be on the front of the bed where the two mounting points are?
Could this be a home made trailer?
I haven't looked at yet and am not sure I will, but was hoping someone would recognize it.
It looks to be pretty rugged.

DDoug · Aug 14, 2018

Nice suspension....Gonna title it and take it down I-95 ?

Bondo · Aug 14, 2018

The tongue of the trailer extends into the main frame so it doesn't need the A frame. But is doesn't look like a camper trailer build but the side wings make it took like it is.

The circle parts on each side looks like it hauls dumpsters but who knows.

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Oldwrench · Aug 14, 2018

Built from truck frame rails. The wheels are way back so it would probably tow reasonably straight. If it's legally tagged it should have a serial number near the tongue (most states, anyway).

DDoug · Aug 14, 2018

I looks like it could have been a flatbed truck bed, see those rollers ?

Like a rollback, for the oil patch.

ewlsey · Aug 14, 2018

Looks like it was cobbled together from class 8 truck frame rails.

I would run, not walk, far away.

Illinoyance · Aug 14, 2018

ewlsey said:
Looks like it was cobbled together from class 8 truck frame rails.

I would run, not walk, far away.

It doesn't look like there is any springing or equalization at the axles.

Like the guy said, RUN.

Pathogen · Aug 14, 2018

By God cappy you found a strange one.

I wouldn't haul a basket of clams from Damiscotta to Brunswick with that thing if you paid me in short lobsters.

Not a DOT type of trailer regulation for sure chummy

If anyone got hurt hauling with it you could end up in the slammer for the Winter

Get the latest copy of Uncle Henry's and scope out some more to look at

Ayuh

true temper · Aug 14, 2018

I am betting it wha a walking beam suppention. The pipe in the middle of the wheels would be the pivot.

atomarc · Aug 14, 2018

Any weight loaded on that thing is going to be 99% tongue weight..IMHO. That's not kosher. :eek:

Stuart

maynah · Aug 14, 2018

Thanks for the answers, I thought as much.
Pathogen, Me and Mother was coming home from the bean-hole bean supper down at the VFW, (I had Chop Suey), and I saw this trailer next to the puckerbrush behind a barn. I’d a stopped for a looksee but was right out straight back at work. And I’ll tell you Mister Man, from all the comments, I need to find something that some Dub didn’t throw together. Jeezum Crow, I don’t need all those headaches.
Thanks for all the wisdom here.

m16ty · Aug 14, 2018

I don't know what that thing is, other than something to throw in the scrap pile. Way too much tongue weight to be useful. I wouldn't take the time to pull it home if somebody gave it to me.

thermite · Aug 14, 2018

m16ty said:
I don't know what that thing is, other than something to throw in the scrap pile. Way too much tongue weight to be useful.

Prolly get something similar as to tongue weight if yah salvaged the Freuhauf frame out from under a late 1940's Air Products A1 or A2 Liquid Oxygen plant.

OTOH, it wasn't meant to go onto a pintle hook.

The 100,000 lbs rated axle of "Dolly, Semi-trailer converter", fifth wheel atop was what had the tongue and lunette for a pintle-hook!

M123A1 Charlie the preferred prime-mover. Tandem axle rigs wouldn't fit under a field-mobile LOX or Acetylene plant's fifth-wheel, directly. Some civilian paved-road addict had designed them, not the Army.

gbent · Aug 14, 2018

Thats probably 3 to 5 truck frames. It looks like the tongue and stringers are also pieces of truck frame. I'd guess that dates to the '50's or '60's.

It would be a good trailer to haul logs from your back 40 up to the house once or twice a year, but not a good trailer for a public road.

thermite · Aug 14, 2018

gbent said:
Thats probably 3 to 5 truck frames. It looks like the tongue and stringers are also pieces of truck frame. I'd guess that dates to the '50's or '60's.

It would be a good trailer to haul logs from your back 40 up to the house once or twice a year, but not a good trailer for a public road.

Yeah.. if we tried to haul the gas plants with an ignorant 5T LWB, we'd put 90 cylinders of O2 or Acetylene in the bed so the wheels didn't spin.

This rig would be right at home, unimproved road, hung off a farm tractor's drawbar - cleated tires about six feet tall. Or a 'dozer. Tongue weight a plus.

Wouldn't want it even empty attached to a pickup.

DDoug · Aug 15, 2018

I made a trailer once, and the paperwork wasn't too bad.
8 weeks of waiting from the DOT, but not too bad.

As I wasn't sure where to put the axle (front to back) I made the leaf springs
and axle assembly as a sub-assembly made from to pieces of angle iron, and
some pipe cross members underneath (to hold the width)

I can slide it and pin it where it's best.

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