would you buy this trailer?

[ntsqd]

What I'm seeing in that latest pic looks like it used to be a travel trailer and someone knocked the box off the frame to make a flatbed trailer.
If that is the case, again hard to tell from one pic, then I'm in agreement with Rene.

RUN!

Fast!

The other way!

Something else to ponder: once YOU have a trailer everyone ELSE wants to borrow it. Either resign yourself to loaning it out and it coming back with modified wiring connectors, or figure out how to make it not fit anyone else's tow rig. Like put a Pintle Hitch, upside down, on the tongue and bolt the ring to your tow rig.

 

[beater_k20]

i'd pass on it. just doesnt look very sturdy at all from the pics.

 

[MTMike]

i'd pass on it. just doesnt look very sturdy at all from the pics.

Agreed.

 

[jekbrown]

roger wilco guys. The guy needs $, I may still try a low ball offer on it.

I'm not concerned about it having mobil home axles... its already set up to run common 6 lug rims/tires... and the brake stuff can be swapped for normal trailer axle brake stuff. The axles are capable of hauling nearly tripple what my truggy will weigh, so I'm not really worried about them.

Main thing I'd be worried about is the strength of the frame. Can't see much in the pics that show that, except the edges. I can't tell what the main frame of the trailer is made from (tube, channel, what size?!) so its hard to guage if it would work for me or not. If I did buy it, I'd definitely tie the edge supports together and maybe even add a "rail" to it (tube about a foot above the edges of the trailer, around the perimeter, not sure what else to call it!) to help keep things nice and rigid.

The dude is in the process of helping his significant other move... but once that is done he is gonna send me a bunch more pics... then I'll see what I think.

As far as people wanting to borrow it, it shouldn't be a problem... don't really have any friends anyway... and I wouldn't loan something that expensive (and that likely to be a liability issue!) to someone that wasn't a real friend...

j

 

['79shortbox]

It's hard to tell without the pic being closer to it but as long as it is built well it looks like a nice trailer, especially for the price. I found there is no such thing as too big in the trailer world because I just about maxed out my dual axle trailer towing home another crew-cab one-ton yesterday

 

[ntsqd]

One thing I just thot of is that IF all of the components are decent and it's simply the frame & deck that is a POS then it sounds like you'll be into it for less than the running gear would be new. Might be worthwhile from a "Harvest the useable parts" point of view.