Shop Project

 I did school all day Saturday which may sound funny to many people but it wasn't what many people would think of when they think of school.  I started working on my first shop project of the year last week and I was able to work on it most of the day Saturday.  I'm building a single axle 6'x10' tilt utility trailer.  I traded the Keeley's a small pickup bed trailer I had for their old boat.  I then pulled the boat off of the trailer and cut the tongue, axle, and tilt mechanism out of the trailer.  I forgot to take a pic pf the original trailer though.

This picture shows what I started with.  I had already cut some of the iron, that is why there are some shorter pieces. 

In this picture I have the outside frame of the trailer and the floor supports welded into place.  It is kind of hard to see, but the trailer I'm building is the small square inside of the big trailer's fenders.  The reason it is on top of my big trailer is because it gives me a level spot to work and a place to clamp the pieces I'm welding down.  If they were not clamped down when I started welding they would torque and bend causing the trailer to be lopsided and not square.

In these two pictures I have the tilt mechanism welded into place and the springs for the the axles are ready to be welded down. Once that is done it will be ready for an axle and then I will flip it over and had small sides to it.

I hope to have it ready to pull by the end of this week so more pictures will follow soon.