50 ft. X 8ft ( to 12 ft. ) w trailer for only $650.00

[aczlan]

Yep.
I've developed a couple old mobile home parks into subdivisions and when we had the old trailers demo'ed the frames folded up like tin foil.
They are worth their weight in scrap and nothing more.

Same for most travel trailer frames.

Aaron Z

 

[bcp]

Same for most travel trailer frames.

Aaron Z

Around here, with the tandem axle travel trailers, the sides are removed, then they are posted on CL as custom built car haulers.



Bruce

 

[tessiers]

I gotta dis agree with a lot of you guys, around here a lot of people use old mobile home trailers for hauling hay and ag stuff. I bought a 60 footer for $300 a couple of years ago, cut it down to 20' over the axels, re-attached the tongue where I wanted it and reclaimed the extra cross members for reinforcing and decked it with some rough sawn I had. I haul 5 ton of hay with it all the time, short trips, farm exempt from registration and inspections. A lot of guys set them up to haul round bales, you can usually get a decent farm trailer for $600 to $800 bucks, parts are easy to find (all you guys are throwing them away anyways). Just saying they do have there place and use, other than scrap. I have 1 that's well over 20 years old and I don't remember it ever needing more than tires and maybe bearings, I have 3 all together and 2 came from the same trailer frame, just added a couple extra axels and a tongue I bought from a take off when they were setting up a new trailer. I know I don't have $2000 in all 3 together.

 

[slowzuki]

Tessiers, thats exactly what they meant. You either have to cut them to a fraction of original or add a pile of steel to make it strong enough.