srs
Veteran Member
Pappa, sent you a PM.
Not real sure what "crappy" welds you had to fix, but I noticed on mine that there seemed to be some unfinished welds. After watching some show on building trailers, I realized that some welds shouldn't have been made continuous due to the trailer needing to flex some. Obviously I don't know if that is your case and will not even infer to it, but just thought I would throw that out there.
I do like the trailer stabilizers you have on the front (I assume that is what that is supposed to be), do you have those on the rear as well? I am assuming you made those? I am considering doing that to the rear of my trailer as many times I have lifted the rear end of my truck off the ground when loading and unloading. But until I saw yours, I never thought of doing that to the front as well.
great job....you will like the fold up jack....I might steal the landing gear idea.....my g/n has only mid point jack
I wonder if the manufacturer would offer up some money for the funds you paid out of pocket. That certainly would be a gesture of good will, couldn't hurt to ask for some type of reimbursement. You have nothing to lose by asking and certainly deserve it for the aggravation you encountered.
The welds were sloppy and full of "air pockets" which I was told was due to the welder not using the proper type weld and / or having the temperature to hot making the weld "pop". I don't know much about welding, but my buddy that is an expert in that field said if they had used mig welding with Argon gas, the weld would have come out right. Anyway, all I know is that he showed me where some of the welds were not actually bonding the tow pieces of metal they intended because the weld was a "bad weld". There were good welds on the trailer, but at least 50% were done very sloppy.....looked like a lot of the welds popped and splattered all over instead of making a steady bead that bonded the metals.
The front stabilizers were just an idea I had because the old trailer didn't have ramps with legs to prevent the trailer from raising the tow vehicle. Since my new trailer had the proper ramps, I saw where sometimes front stabilizers could come in handy, so I put them up front. You should be able to do the same thing with yours in the rear with good results. Worked great for me.:smurf:
I had no dis-respect intended, just was stating something that not everyone would know. I don't weld and have no professional experience, I know enough to be dangerous! I just know that not everything is always intended to be solid. But from what you explained, sounds like garbage to me. Glad you spotted it before you dumped the tractor somewhere it wasn't meant to be.