steelnwool
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When I took my trailer to the shop to have it saftey inspected they wrote "World's Tiniest Trailer" on the bill. The main bed measures about 48" x 42". I bought this a few years ago at a yard sale for $200, it had a big box around it. I didn't take good care of it and the bearing burned out on a trip to the cottage. We left it sitting in the field for a few years.
One year while on vacation with the neighbors borrowed trailer I was wanting my own and told myself "I'll build one!". Well, for a lot of reasons that never happened but then I clued in that I could just fix up the one in the field.
I took it home a top another trailer and started picking away at it 30 minutes here and there as I had time. Ground off all the rust and put on a few coats of Trem-clad. Put in new bearings, replaced the tongue with an 8 foot chunk of 2" square steel. Just the right size to hold a receiver-type bike rack. I added a 5/8" plywood deck with 9 D-rings around it. Did up the wiring, ran a dedicated ground for each light because I figured that would make debugging easier when they failed.
This trailer is called "The Stress Reducer" as that is its main purpose. When we (wife and 2 kids. 8 and 5) go travelling, I get stressed as hell figuring out how everything is going to fit. It bothers me when the kids don't have room etc. So the idea here was to mount 2 180L Rubbermaid bins, our travel table, the cooler and bikes on the trailer. Thus leaving the car just for toys, blankets and clothes plus a few assorted loose things.
The section you see on the front holds our cooler with 2 ratchet straps. Now, by some odd cosmic force it would seem that no matter how much extra space I provide my wife is able to find something we "need" to take to occupy that space. As such the trunk was still 100% packed. BUT the kids had plenty of room.
We took it on a road trip last week of approx 1100kms from Halifax Nova Scotia, up to Funday National Park in New Brunswick for 4 nights, then up to Miramichi to camp in tree houses for 2 nights, attended an airshow ( F18 and Snowbirds! Wooo! ), went tubing and then drove home.
I now present : The stress reducer! Towed by our 2011 6MT 2.5L Subaru Outback "Belle", with 150,000km on er.
It's a tiny trailer. It's as simple as it gets and isn't very exciting. But dammit it works, and well.
One year while on vacation with the neighbors borrowed trailer I was wanting my own and told myself "I'll build one!". Well, for a lot of reasons that never happened but then I clued in that I could just fix up the one in the field.
I took it home a top another trailer and started picking away at it 30 minutes here and there as I had time. Ground off all the rust and put on a few coats of Trem-clad. Put in new bearings, replaced the tongue with an 8 foot chunk of 2" square steel. Just the right size to hold a receiver-type bike rack. I added a 5/8" plywood deck with 9 D-rings around it. Did up the wiring, ran a dedicated ground for each light because I figured that would make debugging easier when they failed.
This trailer is called "The Stress Reducer" as that is its main purpose. When we (wife and 2 kids. 8 and 5) go travelling, I get stressed as hell figuring out how everything is going to fit. It bothers me when the kids don't have room etc. So the idea here was to mount 2 180L Rubbermaid bins, our travel table, the cooler and bikes on the trailer. Thus leaving the car just for toys, blankets and clothes plus a few assorted loose things.
The section you see on the front holds our cooler with 2 ratchet straps. Now, by some odd cosmic force it would seem that no matter how much extra space I provide my wife is able to find something we "need" to take to occupy that space. As such the trunk was still 100% packed. BUT the kids had plenty of room.
We took it on a road trip last week of approx 1100kms from Halifax Nova Scotia, up to Funday National Park in New Brunswick for 4 nights, then up to Miramichi to camp in tree houses for 2 nights, attended an airshow ( F18 and Snowbirds! Wooo! ), went tubing and then drove home.
I now present : The stress reducer! Towed by our 2011 6MT 2.5L Subaru Outback "Belle", with 150,000km on er.
It's a tiny trailer. It's as simple as it gets and isn't very exciting. But dammit it works, and well.
