Trailer

I need a trailer to move a water tank.

Bro has 7 trailers; 8 if you count the horse box. And 3 boats on trailers.

You kind of have to ask yourself why.  He does however hire out the three biggest ones. 

The horse box has been promised a makeover and then to be sold. I've done the fibreglass bits. The metal bits are Bro's department.

Of the remaining 4 trailers, one is a frame and wheels only and destined to become a tipping trailer.

There was a 4' x 8' one that was to become mine (big enough to transport a motorbike) but the short version of its demise is that it turned out to be just too rusty to restore.

1 down.

The two remaining 4' x 6' trailers got dragged out on Sunday, cleared of their loads of scrap metal, lifted on the forklift and inspected below and Bro chose for me the one that he said needed least work. I think he meant 'work by him' - welding stuff.

It used to be Dad's trailer. I suspect that went onto the scales when these two were weighed up..

It just happened to be the one that needs me to buzz it all over with a wire brush, panel beat the metal sides and end doors, rewire the lights,  paint it all with rust converter/primer, and then paint it all again with paint.

It also needs a new plywood deck. And I think one of the wheel rims need replacing.

The other one has a rusted out steel deck that I could replace with plywood, but that will need some brackets welded in. It was acquired in lieu of someone paying a debt and deck aside looks fairly tidy.  No paint job required.

But it wasn't Dad's trailer.

Thus it was I spent half of today bent double over an upside down trailer removing surface rust with an electric wire brush. (I spent the other half moving furniture but that's another story).

Rust converter is amazing stuff. It makes the surface of the steel go black.

Here it is right way up, axle removed, waiting for me to do the top half

My axle sitting in the rejected trailer. Note the quality of the end doors (relative to 'mine')

Seriously - I think I've been had but beggars can't be choosers.

Note on 3 boats - one of those was Dad's and one was left here in lieu of payment of another debt (different person).  I suspect Bro of being a bit soft about collecting money off people he does work for. They sort of abandon stuff that turns out to be unfixable and suggest 'you keep it in lieu of payment'.

Went walking in the rain first thing.