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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Anyone get this link to work?
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 4×8 model:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=90154
Cheap Chinese junk, but…cheap.
Keep in mind you get what you pay for. When we sold these type of trailers to get a good 5×8, 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
you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
I built my own from 1/8″ HSS square tube. Trailer tires, and 3500lb axle. It is easy if you have at least some skill. Find a little stick welding machine and you are set! People don’t listen to morons like this “guy”.
you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
how do you proffessionals got that way.They didn’t listen to fools like you!
you are stupid you can not make your own trailer. Leave it to the prefesionals!
That is coming from someone that can’t even spell “professionals”?
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
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
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
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.
how far back does axel need to be on a 10 x 6 utility trailer for a 4 wheeler
depends on how many axles and your tongue weight.
The centre pivit has to be at least 100mm towards the rear of the trailers load area.
I am buliding a 2400mm x 1500mm (10ft x 5ft) tamdom trailer so i put the centre piviot of the springs 130mm back from centre of load area. This info came from certified drawings that I bought.
Link doesn’t work. But I found the project here:
http://gt1.homeip.net/project-trailer.htm
Link has changed to:
http://gt1.dyndns-web.com/project-trailer.htm