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15 Feb ’12
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well it's really not new, we just modified one we had. It's been a pain the last couple years when we want to move the animals and such, we have had to borrow trailers and work around other peoples schedules which wasn't ideal. So we had been looking around for a used horse trailer or something, and those have been a couple thousand dollars.
Well we have a cheap tilt up trailer we had bought from home depot 8 years ago, you can see it in the background here
so we decided to make it into a animal trailer
the way these trailers work is the gate flips over and forms a ramp, you can then tilt the trailer so you can drive a lawn mower and such up into it, since we weren't worried about the tilt any more we hinged it and installed a pin to turn it into a back gate
we still got to put some bars across the front and back so the animals can't jump out, but I figured I would share with you guys what we have done so far
15 Feb ’12
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well we finally finished it up, we used expanded metal instead of bars to keep the animals from getting out
we bolted the back piece on to we could remove if needed to haul other stuff
I think I might throw a roof rack on it in the spring
21 Feb ’12
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Wow that's pretty cool! You going to use it for the pigs now? Do you have other animals you plan on hauling with it?
15 Feb ’12
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finally got the pics back from the build
we used my buddies garage
we removed the front and back panels
and welded up a rail out of square tubing
and welded that on top of the side rail
we did the same on the other side and welded up the roof rails
we bent over some metal
and spot welded to hold in place
and added another piece and drilled and screwed the perimeter and the seam
we put the front panel back on and welded the corners
we welded some hinges on the back panel
closes fine
and welded on a simple pin lock
and it opens well
we cut out a arch
and welded it up onto the ends
and painted it up, we used a liner product for the outside of the roof
we cut some expanded metal to fill in the gaps
the bag part we just bolted on in case we want to remove it to load the lawn mower or such
I'm pretty happy with it
15 Feb ’12
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Wow that's pretty cool! You going to use it for the pigs now? Do you have other animals you plan on hauling with it?
thanks dd, right now just for pigs and hauling stuff
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