I broke a spring on my old trailer a few weeks ago, and have been handicapped without it. I was beating the bushes looking for mobile home axles, when I ran across a 20' gooseneck 3-axle trailer, advertised for $400. Couldn't resist checking it out, and ended up buying it for $300. ;D Of course, at that price, it has some problems, but I figger the axles alone to be worth the price. It is made from an old mobile home frame, but seems well put together. The gooseneck may need a bit of beefing up, one axle has a bad spindle, there is no jack on the front-end, the tires are about shot, etc. I think I got myself into a lot of work, but the outcome should be positive. :)
Good for you DanG!
For sure a keeper....they done built the hard part 8)
Considering the thousands that that trailer would cost new, I'd say a little work is worth it. ;D
Good Show!
What a find! The steel's worth a lot more than that 8)
Well, the LAST thing I needed was another project! I gotta jam-slam something together, though. At least it gives me some more options, such as putting 2 of those axles under my old trailer for the time being. ???
Definitely came out on top, money-wise. ;D
DanG,
You, of anybody, should know better than to make a post like this without pitchers! :D :D :D
Well, he DID say he done busted his camera. ::) ;D :D :D :D
Ya gonna fix it up so's you can barbecue wood like ya was gonna do with yer horse trailer. ? ;D
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I don't know what his concern about the axles is. He's got some under the house that he could use, I'll bet. :D
Heck, come to think of it, he could use the axles off his kiln :D
The price of new steel is about $1.00 per pound on the local market, so if the trailer is over 300 pounds you could not build just the frame any cheaper.
Helped someone get their stuff out of their trashed MH today. There are 5 MH's that were dragged onto the side of the road, to be smashed and hauled away. EVERY one had 2 or more axles and wheels under 'em. ;D ;) :)
Well, you took'em all home, didn't ya Harold? ;D
They don't leave the axles under mobile homes, anymore. They don't throw them away, either. They take them back to the factory and put them on another one.
If I used the ones under the kiln, how would I move it around? ??? The purpose of building it on a trailer was for portability.
Alas, the camera is TOAST! The case is warped, apparently from spending too many hot days in the truck. I may have to cash in a few of my spent beer cans to come up with the $300 I need for another one. ::)
It was just over 20 years ago when we bought a brand new mobil home. They finally brought it out and parked it. A while later a guy came out to set it up on blocks. I was there watching. After a while the guy started to his truck to get some more tools. I asked him what he was doing. He had the nerve to tell me he was gonna take the axles and tires out from under it. I told him to wait just a minute. I went to my truck and got my shotgun off of the gun rack. The guy looked kinda surprised, and asked what I was doing. I told him when I bought the *DanG thing it had axles and tires on it, and when he left it was STILL gonna have axles and tires on it. Pretty much the end of the conversation. I don't know why but he didn't give me the least bit of trouble. He just loaded up his wrenches and left. I never even had to load the gun. ;D
This is NOT a recommendation to anyone else to try this!
Yeah I don't get that, they take the axels off, but I'm told they aren't able to reuse them on another mobile home. They sell them for "other" uses, after moveing one mobile home on them.
Bad info???
Ck if I bought one them things 20 years ago and they just finley brought it I would loaded that gun an went looking for them 19 years an 11mounts ago ??? ;D :D DanG you shocked me I though you bought one them 20 grand jobs . Got spare axels come get em. ;D
:D :D :D Jim, you ain't been readin' hard enough! You should know by now that I am Cheeeeep, with a capital Chee! ;D
Yep me too . But when I read that heading I like to of had a heart attack .Though that the salt air and heat may of got you :D :D Sorder like that heading Bush Wins I read that and my first thoughts were he got a FF hat before I did :'( :'(Still got spare axels 8)
Nope. Left 'em all right where they were. Got too much junk to get rid of as it is. Have to start cleaning up the place. Should have 1 killer yard sale. ;D ;D
Spoke to a fellow one time about the steel cable from his trailer to a ground anchor. He said the bank insisted on it so that the trailer was a permanent fixture and not portable! The wheels may be part of the same idea. Wouldnt want you just up and stealing that 78' house with your old half ton. I figure that the manufacturer just wants to save money by recycling the running gear.
Got the trailer home without a hitch. Errrr....I guess that didn't sound just right. ::) ??? :D :D
Anyway, y'all whined and begged so much, I borrowed a camera and took a pic for ya.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/danggooseneck01.JPG)
How ya like that purty camo paint job?
Now that is one heck of a $300 trailer!!
Captain
When ya visit the "DanGster" it is very likely you can get lost on all them little dirt trails. Probably someone had that trailer hooked up, and then got lost. Abandoned the thing and then someone else drug it to their place. Along comes "our" lustruss scrap picker-upper, and HE gets a real deal. ;)
Somebody even lost a whole Military Supply Depot, just down the road from DanG. 22 acres, I bleeve. ;D :D :D :D
DAN G
Get that thing all fixed up , & you'll have a nice trailor to haul logs on ! 8)
and any other good deals you run across Looks like you done good 8)
what a deal....thats gonna make fine loggin trailer
That's a diamond in the ruff you found there DanG. A few hoursof work and you'll have a mighty fine looking trailer .
I am always a day late and a dollar shortr on deals like that .
I'm usually late and short on'em, too. It took this guy a week to return my call, and I had given up on it. When he started callin' folks back, I turned out to be the closest. I asked if he had left any "running room" on the price, and he came down from $400 to $300, just like that. I whipped out the ol' wallet and commenced to dealing out them twentys. ;D Couldn't see no way to lose. ;)
Harold, if you remember k'reckly, that lost depot is 25 acres, filled with 50 years of mistakes. ;D :D :D :D Anything that ain't been sold yet is a mistake!
I gotta go up there and do a little patrol duty. There just ain't no end to the (s)crap you can find in that place! BTW, Mr. Hootie ain't got no prettier since you last seen him. ;)
I think a loader arm boom thingy up on top of that gooseneck would purty it up a bunch, probably make foraging trips a whole whack easier and faster too.
So DANG, what have ya done with that new trailor? Ya got'er see worthy yet? ;D
Funny you should mention that, S-Donkey. ;D That trailer has set right where you last saw it until last week. I moved it around to the shop and got to work on it. Took the bad axle off and got a new one ready to mount. Bought 6 new tires. All I gotta do now is mount the new axle, grease all the wheel bearings and put the new tires on.
The trailer is decked over with 1x8x20 pine boards, but they're not fastened down. ??? I'm gonna remove them and install 4x6 bunks across it at every cross brace. That'll make it easier to side load by the parbuckle method, and easier to unload with the Hootiemobile.
Don't forget us with some new pics when ya get'r done. :)
cheers