Pimpin' out the trailer
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From: Dover AFB DE / Harrisburg PA
Pimpin' out the trailer
I've been steadily makin' progress on my car trailer I bought last winter.
The start
Scrapped a '87 F-150 that I got all I wanted off of, but for some reason saved the bed floor. Set it on the trailer to get it out of the way and came up with an idea...
Narrowed it a little bit and bolted 'er in to expand my haulin' capibilities.
By that point I have towed enough dumb airmen around to pay off what I put into the trailer's origional purchase price, so dumped a little more cash in and had it Extreme Liner'ed.
The stupid plate ramps were gettin' pretty bad too with bending the wrong way to pull lower cars on and also were freakin' heavy. Cut off 6" strips sideways to bolt to the cheapo Harbor Freight ramps. Adding some bracing and bolting them doubled up didn't even bend with a cummins Dodge goin' on.
Welded a washer to a cheap hitch pin for secure storage to a tab I added.
Now for the big pimpin!
Picked up a used but never operated Ramsey 12000 with control box, fairlead, and 150' stainless cable for 800bucks on Craigslist. The trailer already had a reciever welded up front where the PO used a 3000lb boat winch (Ha!), so I wanted to continue that idea, and make the big boy "portable". Started with a section of some solid 2" steel stock ($$$), ground the corners a little bit to side in the hitch, and bored a hole through for a hitch pin. Welded that directly to a piece of 1/2" steel plate to bolt the winch to. Added some 5/16 gussets on either side for the "needs more triangulation" factor. Finally for the fairlead welded to the plate half of a section of 1/4" C channel with a hole for the cable. Painted 'er all up quick and bolted on for a test. This "portable" chunk of American iron is about 150lbs, so two man lift, but worth it to use in any reciever. Clipped to my friends deuce, it drug my '08 backwords with all four wheels dragging brakes locked.
Can also see in those pics I ditched the super tall and slow jack that used to be up by the tounge that prevented tailgate drop hitched up for a quick screw Bulldog jack from TSC.
Continuing plans are adding a second jack to the other side for stability, removable diamond plate fenders to make towing wide trucks possible, and wiring up the '08 and '79 dually with some welding cable front to back with quickdisconnect forklift connectors so I don't have to carry around a winch battery.
Also if I can figure out a front mount hitch for the '85 Blazer the winch will find a home there too.
Adrianspeeder
The start
Scrapped a '87 F-150 that I got all I wanted off of, but for some reason saved the bed floor. Set it on the trailer to get it out of the way and came up with an idea...
Narrowed it a little bit and bolted 'er in to expand my haulin' capibilities.
By that point I have towed enough dumb airmen around to pay off what I put into the trailer's origional purchase price, so dumped a little more cash in and had it Extreme Liner'ed.
The stupid plate ramps were gettin' pretty bad too with bending the wrong way to pull lower cars on and also were freakin' heavy. Cut off 6" strips sideways to bolt to the cheapo Harbor Freight ramps. Adding some bracing and bolting them doubled up didn't even bend with a cummins Dodge goin' on.
Welded a washer to a cheap hitch pin for secure storage to a tab I added.
Now for the big pimpin!
Picked up a used but never operated Ramsey 12000 with control box, fairlead, and 150' stainless cable for 800bucks on Craigslist. The trailer already had a reciever welded up front where the PO used a 3000lb boat winch (Ha!), so I wanted to continue that idea, and make the big boy "portable". Started with a section of some solid 2" steel stock ($$$), ground the corners a little bit to side in the hitch, and bored a hole through for a hitch pin. Welded that directly to a piece of 1/2" steel plate to bolt the winch to. Added some 5/16 gussets on either side for the "needs more triangulation" factor. Finally for the fairlead welded to the plate half of a section of 1/4" C channel with a hole for the cable. Painted 'er all up quick and bolted on for a test. This "portable" chunk of American iron is about 150lbs, so two man lift, but worth it to use in any reciever. Clipped to my friends deuce, it drug my '08 backwords with all four wheels dragging brakes locked.
Can also see in those pics I ditched the super tall and slow jack that used to be up by the tounge that prevented tailgate drop hitched up for a quick screw Bulldog jack from TSC.
Continuing plans are adding a second jack to the other side for stability, removable diamond plate fenders to make towing wide trucks possible, and wiring up the '08 and '79 dually with some welding cable front to back with quickdisconnect forklift connectors so I don't have to carry around a winch battery.
Also if I can figure out a front mount hitch for the '85 Blazer the winch will find a home there too.
Adrianspeeder
