New Trailer

I found a real nice homemade trailer that was built right. Even the ramp is solid aluminum for weight. It has slip leafs on it, so they wont break. Just will slide out a bit under load. Even the tongue runs straight from nose to butt unlike most commercial trailers only run to the middle of the trailer. Guy that built it works for a truck fabrication shop and it was built with scraps from work. Im digging it. Even has led brake lights....think its close to 5x8. I wanted a car trailer, but my old 4x6 broke down. Bearing wiped out taking the axle with. More money than its worth to weld a new spindle. So I bought this. Only bad downfall, is no title, only bol. And here in Pa its a pia to get a title for homemade. So I just swapped my plate and vin from my old trailer on it. {aid 3 andrew jacksons for it.

I felt like I was running truck again. This is its first load. I ran down to pick up the trailer a 100 miles away and the gf found this load on craigs on the way home. So just like driving truck professionally. Ran down to get a empty, ran back up, picked up a load. Then home. Lots of resale in parts here, real good find.



enjoy!!

nice trailer ozzy.

Congrats. Hope it serves you well.

Originally Posted by Metalbestos

Swapped your vin and plates ? Don't sound legal to me . Get it inspected and on the road legally

Under a certain weight class, you do not need yearly inspection. But it can take years to get a proper title, etc for a homemade. Its actually far easier to swap vins. There is guys running around buying junk campers for the title and vin. Which is a great way to make money as a scrapper. I take campers all the time, even charge to remove. If they have a title, I usually have a buyer within 24 hours of it. Just for the title. That is how diffucult it is to title a homemade trailer around here.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

Congrats. Hope it serves you well.

Thanks, It already is. I like it...

nice it now means you had it custom made lol

A seal LOL!

Ya ment it was 3 ben franklins..300. not andrew jacksons lol. Plus 60 in fuel to retrieve. I talked to the owner/builder. Axle is off a boat, same with tires. I wonder what the capacity is on that? The owner said he had a ton of pavers and it was just ducky. I may put bigger tires. I do have one spare that came with it, although it is dry rotted very bad. It would be short term use. I also have 2 tires and rims from a trailer I scrapped that are even smaller than whats on there, but they are good. Either way I been loading it with zero issues. Worst case is put another axle on it and bigger tires. I can always swap the axle off of my old one, but that defeats the purpose. The one spindle would need to be cut off and rewedded. I dont trust that. I like a one piece forged acle that was never welded or touched...

Nice trailer ozzy!!

I wonder how many states still do yearly inspection of vehicles?? SD got rid of theirs back in one of Wild Bill Janklow's first administrations. I hadn't been driving long and I can't say that I miss them!!! Our annual license tags have been creeping up in cost over the past few years but its still less than $100 to license a vehicle in this state!!

You have to do a yearly inspection on certain weight class trailers, usually twin screws. This doesnt need nothing