Thread: Trailer

Nice one. What are you hauling in it? Be great for getting firewood!! You wont misplace it in a hurry

Great job Rod. Looks like a lifetime of faithful service out of something that solid!
Cheers,

Originally Posted by silentC

Nice one. What are you hauling in it? Be great for getting firewood!! You wont misplace it in a hurry

Gunna become an house Owner/Builder so it'll be very usefull in rubbish/rubble removal and carrying new materials.

Why isn't there overspray on the tyres? Not very professional.

Originally Posted by Andy Mac

Great job Rod. Looks like a lifetime of faithful service out of something that solid!
Cheers,

Yep it should last me for the rest of my life. It weighs 650kgs. I could of bought an 8x5 cheaper but they all looked flimsy.

Originally Posted by

Why isn't there overspray on the tyres? Not very professional.

Sorry (LoL). With age comes knowledge. I prepared and sprayed the rims before I put the tyres on em and sprayed the trailer with the wheels removed. But knowledge is dangerous.

A great job, Rod. My trailer was built by my Dad about 1955 out of some 2" angle bed rails, the wheels off a Humber Hawk, some 2nd hand oregon bargeboards for the sides and some discarded hardwood floorboards for the floor. It's still going although the wooden bits have been replaced!
Cheers,
Graeme

Well Done!
That is one schmick trailer. You are using my dream rig... TTandBFT (Toyota Troopy and Trailer of Large Proportions :eek: ) I know the description does not match the anagram but hey, thats english for you.
Congrats
Cheers
Tom

Have you registered it yet. I don't know about WA but in NSW I think you have to be a Registered Trailer manufacturer to get them registered or you have to get an engineers certificate to certify that it is roadworthy.

Here in NSW you can't even homemake a towbar for a car without it being engineered and all things steel have to be welded by a qualified welder.

Great looking trailer by the way and I have seen bought ones that you wouldn't want to tow anyway.

No such requirement exists in Victoria about manufacture.

They are more worried about proof of ownership than anything else it seem here.

Mind you I'd suspect that if the thing looks in any way dodgy they would be sending you off to get a roadworthy certificate first....

Originally Posted by Barry_White

Have you registered it yet. I don't know about WA but in NSW I think you have to be a Registered Trailer manufacturer to get them registered or you have to get an engineers certificate to certify that it is roadworthy.

Here in NSW you can't even homemake a towbar for a car without it being engineered and all things steel have to be welded by a qualified welder.

Great looking trailer by the way and I have seen bought ones that you wouldn't want to tow anyway.

Barry, at the time of your question I had not registered the trailer and therefore couldn't answer it.

I have registered it now, it was inspected by the Vehicle Inspectors and passed with flying colours.

Originally Posted by rod1949

Barry, at the time of your question I had not registered the trailer and therefore couldn't answer it.

I have registered it now, it was inspected by the Vehicle Inspectors and passed with flying colours.

Thats great Rod, probably different rules for different states. In Queensland they run around in heaps of rust buckets that would never pass in NSW. The only time you don't have to have an inspection on a car is if it is less than three years old otherwise it is inspected every 12 months. I believe in QLD once passed always passed until it is sold. I suppose a QLDer will tell me otherwise.

I had a towbar knocked back at rego time because it didn't have the Manufactures name or the carrying capacity stamped on it.

BTW it was a great looking trailer so it would probably pass on apperance alone.

Same in VIC as QLD Barry. RWC is not req'd till you sell. Unless I lay eyes on it that is.

Hi Rod
Like your trailer. Had a sticky in your workshop;you left the door open hope you don't mind
Regards Col