My New Off Road Trailer Project

So about 8 years ago I was at a friends house who had an old 70's beat up rotted boat behind his house. I told him we needed to fix it up and run it around the lake. Well he told me to take it home and do it myself, so it did, take it home that is. It was a yard orniment for many years until I tied the boat to a tree and pulled the 16 foot trailer out from under it. I was going to make the boat into a flower garden until a few days later some guy stopped my my house and wanted some parts off the motor. I told him if he wanted the parts, he would have to take the whole boat and motor with him, so he did. I decked the trailer and made it into a 16 foot flat bed and used it maybe twice and once again it was a yard orniment for years.

Well a few years ago I got into this off roading stuff and saw a few of ya'll with these cool off road trailers and thought I sure would love one of those. So last night I was fed up with trouble shooting my jeep problems so my buddy and I went to my property and ripped my once again old rotted beat up trailer out of the weeds and drug it into my garage.



My plans were to cut it somewhere behind the fenders and take about eight feet out of the center and splice it back together. So I started to take the fenders off and found something really cool. The spring and axle were attached to the same piece of angle the fender was. So once I took the bolts out of the fender the whole unit dropped to the ground. So I wouldn't have to splice it in the middle.



So I cut 8 feet off the end and used the channel I cut off for the now end of the trailer and replaced the cross member that used to be bent for the boat to drive up on with a straight one.







I cleaned up the rust and primed the fenders and the channels the fenders were going to attached to and reattached the fenders and axle.







Once it is done it will be an 8 X 5 trailer. For those of you who know me and my jeep I intend to remove my bottom rack and use the trailer in place of the rack. I'll post up more as I continue. Hope ya'll like it, I'm having a blast building it.

Sweet! can't wait to see the finished product!!

Looking good, Shane. Good size. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Nice job, will look good when it's done.

Nice man, definitely be cool to see how it turns out. I would like to build an "expedition trailer" one day.

Base is stripped, primed, and ready for paint. Metal for the top is coming in tomorrow.

Very nice. Looks like you will have plenty of room in front of the box for a nice tool/storage box.

Dang it, Working in Dutchboy's trailer, seeing your fun project, I wanna play! I guess I need to first get myself a welder.......one day.

The base painted, Metal didnt come in today. ugh

Well here it is, the final assembly. It's maiden voyage will be Thursday. Batjeep09 and I are headed down PINS with the families.











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Looks great. I didn't take any pictures of my trailer. I think Renny did, so he might post some. Renny is my personal electrical expert
He made my trailer look awesome, well at least at night. LOL J/K

Yea. I haven't done my electrical yet. gonna do that tonight. ill take pics of it lighted up when I'm done with it

Looks really good!

Looks good Shane. Will make PINS and Big Bend a whole new experience.

It's really beautiful! I love that color and the way the wood looks together. Very well done.

Thanks for the positive feed back guys. Had alot of fun building it, Thanks to Batjeep09 for his help. Will have even more fun testing it out on the beach Thursday. Ill let you know how it fares.

Your welcome buddy. I think the trailer did great. It carried a lot, and I mean a LOT of gear and handled loose sand well. Especially for street tires. Now to build one for me!