I am getting very frustrated with my trailer.
I have a 10′ Haulmark single axle with torsion suspension.
I pull it with a 4×4 Suburban.
My frustration is it bounces alot.
Tools every where except where they started.
During this very cold spell my job site table saw base shattered and my air hose reel also shattered.
Also it is an ongoing challenge to organize everything.
Anyone else have these issues?
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You might try having shock mounts welded to the frame and installing heavy duty shocks - that'll stop the leaping about which is tossing your stuff. A pretty cheap fix, considering.
Lower end travel trailers often have this problem when the kitchen is in the back - get where you are going and all the dishes are throughly stirred inside their cabinets. Shock mounts and shocks solves this problem as well.
there have been some very good threads on this subject, and some awesome photos of organized trailers. Try the search function, and I'll do the same. If I can find some of those past threads, I'll come back and let you know. - Huck
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View Image"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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View Image"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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View Image"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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View Image"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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ok, some of those pics are a little large for embedding. But you get the idea. If I had some time, I could go back and resize them all, and make an awesome photo thread. "...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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Huck, you are a compulsive sicko! Just kidding. Very, very nice setup. Yes, lips on selves and bungees are your friend.
Huck, you are a compulsive sicko!
that part is probably true anyways - but other than my first post, the pictures were from others here, that I got from past threads. Sorry, I didn't take the time to give credit to others, I was kinda in a hurry on that since I was just heading out when I saw the question."...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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I've really always wanted to get a trailer but just looking at the inside of some of yours I get nightmares just thinking about someone hauling it way....ugh.
I spose a cube/utility van might be more the ticket but it'd be nice to just drop off the trailer and have yer ride to cruise around in...plus what great advertising billboard a trailer is....yeh...a billboard that says "steal me...I'm filled w/tools"...ugh
http://www.cliffordrenovations.com
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yeah, I hear ya! One reason I sold mine, don't use a trailer no more. Too much theft in my neighborhood. That, and the fact that people want to cut in front (I'm assuming because they don't like their view being blocked), then hit their brakes hard to turn, and I couldn't slow down in time. After I rear-ended a jerk who cut in front at a stoplight, I sold/gave it away to my wife's cousin (you know how it goes with family!). He was pulling a trailer himself, cut in front like a madman, rear-ended the car at the red light stopped in front of him, and I hit his trailer. Insurance told me I was 50% responsible, since I "should have left more room to stop". Aaarrrrggghh!
Hey, BTW, I was reading your posts on the Basswood name thread, and checked out your website. Very nice website! But I wanted to mention the link to the news story doesn't work no more. Might want to fix that, bad links is one thing that will drop you down on Google and Yahoo searches. Maybe put the story on a web-page of your own, so it won't disappear1"...craftsmanship is first & foremost an expression of the human spirit." - P. Korn
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Hey, BTW, I was reading your posts on the Basswood name thread, and checked out your website. Very nice website! But I wanted to mention the link to the news story doesn't work no more
Yeh...I know. I think you have to pay the paper to keep the story going for you. I figure that if people see there was a story about me that might be enough. the story wasn't all that intriguing anyway.
Gerrald Hayes did my site and quite a fine job he did. When he gets some time he said he's goingto link a Blog to it I can add to within my site.
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hey guy's thanks for all the responses and pictures.I saved all the pictures and will use ideas from them to re-organize mine.I will try to post some pictures of mine if I can.Thanks again.
I have had a similar trailer for 7 yrs. Ive had the lock-down pin on my Makita 1013 slider shear twice now. I bungee it down now.
I rarely use the trailer anymore, except for storage. I bought a 12' cube van and I like it alot more. The gas mileage is about the same, hate the monthly payments though.
Here's a few of my 5x10 WellsCargo setup...JT
Looks well organized and alot of bungees. I use the bungees in the truck also.Anything will bounce when you hit a big bump, no matter what your driving.I especially... HATE SPEED BUMPS!!
I can't find my photos, but it looks similar to several here. I have a 14' tandem all AL with shelves and drawers from American van installed.
I have some
I put my Makita slider mounted to the collapsible rack on the floor. One thing I learned with it was not to wind the cord around the blade. When traveling, the blade/motor can bounce up and down an inch so the cord got caught in a tooth and sawed off.
The portable TS gets bungeed to the side wall, as do a few other things. The only time I have stuff thrown around is when I forget to tie something in. All the shelfs have lips to retain things.
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I strap stuff to both sides of my 6 x 12 single axle with side door and back drop down ramp. Trash cans and tool buckets on floor and some stuff on shelves up front .
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Hey, you left room for a sleeping bag!Found mine.
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Are you heating the trailer or do you try and put up all the caulk and paint?
I put all my perishable stuff in a cooler only to have it freeze at 5 degrees.
I bought a couple of racks at Sam's Club that have very nice tray system.
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I carry the frost-damageable stuff inside. Two or three of those caulk bins are PL Premium glue and Geocel which handles the cold just fine. The painters caulk and the titebond glues get top go into a heated job or spend the winter in my basement except when needed.
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I just picked up a microwave, fridge, coffee maker, recliner, T.V. and DVD with surround sound . Come-on-ov-ah (all one word) and we'll watch Scarface this afternoon, oh hell I'll come to you. Ill even bring my Joe Foreman Grill and a couple of T Bones. We can save the grease drippings and dip ritz crackers in it.
Those Italians = (Eye-tal-ee-ns) dont have nothin with there dippin bread in seasoned olive oil in them fancy eatin places . Us Albanians are used to eat'in good . climb up hill get a goat sweet talk it down to the house(in our case it was a cave for years till we got a big box) and after a day or two we'd kill it and cook it up. My gramps always said you seasoned up a goat good before you killed it, he had one goat he seasoned for years before he cooked her up. Now all I need is an extension cord to plug into my neighbors outside outlet and get to cookin. Does your neighbor have an outdoor plug so's we can cook?
Guess I get carried away with the fond old family stories.
those are old pictures of my trailer just after I emptyed it out and cleaned it up, its full of Shee-it just like me full of it.
Have a good one.
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Mine were right after a cleanup too.I have a mirowave in it too, and one of the guys usually brings a Foreman grill with him.Seasoning the goat first - I had some elk once in CO that was killed following a drought. They'd been eating so mucch sage brush browse that the meat tasted like it was soaked in strong sage solutioin for a month. Could hardley eat it
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yes , yours looks very organized and well equipped. Very nice.
my box trailer has been my best investment.Carpentry and remodeling
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I love my 6x12 tool trailer, but I have twice had it completely cleaned out in the night. I like the organization of the pics posted above, but it looks pretty easy to back a truck up and clean it out in less than 5 minutes. I now keep everything in the trailer in big job boxes that are bolted to the floor. I also installed an alarm and have a hockey puck lock to secure the doors. Last time the trailer was broken into (October) they cleared out $10,000 worth of tools even taking old saw blades and boxes of nails. It was parked in a nice neighborhood with steel bars I had custom made closing the door.
Make sure whatever you do with your trailer, don't assume the tools are safe unless they are locked up inside as well.
I have an 18 ft carmate, tandem axle.
I'm amazed at how everything stays put. even after long journeys. I could set a glass of water in there and not worry about a spill
I even have boxes of assorted nails sitting on shelves with no lips. heck, I stack nail boxes!
I think part of my problem is the single axle.My next trailer will be a 12' tandem axle.What is better? single axle or tandem?
I'm thinking tandem on a 12 ft trailor might look a little funny
maybe think about going longer.
I do carry a lot of weight, that might have something to do with it
I see a lot of 12' tandems.
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I haul way to much in my 10' if I had larger than a 12' man what a mess.Most 12' trailers I see around here are tandem.Most of the jobs I do any thing longer than a 12' I would'nt be able to get it near my job.
I used to have a 6x10 single, switched to a 7x12 two axle, big difference. Ride is better and brakes on all wheels makes stopping much easier.
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Here is a pic of my 6x 12 tandem inside hight is 6'8". She is 7000#GW I set tile so alot of weight on her back side so we pushed the axles back another6" It is a "V" nose so i have 13'9" inside.
Craig
I would ditch the trailer, can't safely leave on site and a pain to take back and forth. This is my current set up not quite as customizable as a box truck but we are able to easily load staging onto racks with forklift. Sorry no pics of inside boxes, but each is quite organized two for guns, one for saws, one for nails one for cased tools one for levels and hand tools one for misc hardware and one for table saw and chop saw. Cords hangs hoses on reel, 220 on reel mounted compressor hangs 30 or so wall braces and carry 4 little giants