correcting bent trailer tongue

[Shield Arc]

Until the slag rolls down your back and into your buttcrack.:laughing:

Better than in your ear!:shocked:

2manyrocks if you can post more pictures, especially from the side I can tell you where to heat it to bring it back in line.

 

[ray66v]

That is a quick and easy fix for a body shop.

If you have a local shop you deal with, you could ask them about bending it for you.

We did a lot of work like that, cheap, for goodwill.

 

[2manyrocks]

Have you considered bashing it into shape with a big sledge hammer.:laughing:

I couldn't figure a way to lay on my back under the trailer and get that much swing on it.

Will have to see about making some more pictures tomorrow during the daylight.

 

[crazyal]

I'm a cut it out and replace it kind of guy. A couple of cut off wheels for your 4 1/2" grinder and it no time you have the old one off. I've never had much luck with the skill saw type wheels, they seam to wear too quickly for how much they cost.

 

[MillWeld]

Looks like you need a bottle jack and a log chain, to me.

Either the above or a low-end body shop. My experience with the latter on a sawmill with bent 3 x 6 box beams was very successful. Your trailer is not that big but if accessing the bent members with a jack and chain is cumbersome the the body shop route might work.

 

[Renze]

Have a front loader ? put a jackstand under the bend, load the trailer, and push the front loader down on the tongue.

If you dont have a front loader, hook it up to tractor or truck and use bottle jack to push under the bend.

I have a torch since 2 years, and i absolutely love it. With proper heating, you can align frames without excerting mechanical force on it by using the thermal expansion, weakening at high temperatures (which forces the local material to compress between the surrounding material) and then cooling down, when the redness is off, the material has regained its strength but is still thermally expanded: so once cooled down, it has shrunken and will pull back the beam into the direction you want.

Just be patient, i usually drink half a beer between two heating sessions, to make sure i dont heat again too soon, to find it pulled the other way the next morning

 

[Shield Arc]

Use water to cool down the heated areas, but then again that will cut into the beer drinking time! :laughing:

 

[ayelvington]

Looks like you need a bottle jack and a log chain, to me.

This is what I'd do, and then weld in a sister piece behind the cross piece that bent to reinforce it.

 

[deereman75]

I couldn't figure a way to lay on my back under the trailer and get that much swing on it.

Will have to see about making some more pictures tomorrow during the daylight.

If unlike me, you have a tractor (and better yet a loader), lift the trailer up, and start smashing it with a 8lbs sledge. Or you could rent a big cutting torch or plasma cutter for a day and hack it off and build a new tounge.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Better than in your ear!:shocked:

2manyrocks if you can post more pictures, especially from the side I can tell you where to heat it to bring it back in line.

That depends on where the slag stops rolling I guess.