Rebuilding a trailer

[rustyshakelford]

Awesome. It's always good to have progress to show for the money that you have invested.

Aaron Z

Absolutely. Going to the dump should be an adventure since I’ll be the new kid on the block and not know protocol. Trash is 27-28 per ton and I’ll load with road base for 21 per ton for the ride home. I should be able to have all the boxes home this weekend and will be able to evaluate their needs.

On a fun note, the new plasma will be here Monday and have just about hope the miller 252 will be soon there after.

Good progress, no to stay the course and finish it all the way... some of my projects seem to stall when I get the functionality I wanted..

I had some hose clamps but they interfered with the pump. I had to ground one off. I’ll order two more and put them on the bottom for the jack hoses and get something for the others.

Brett

 

[rustyshakelford]

First trip to the dump went well. Went in around 18k lbs and out at 15k for a total of 3k in the one container. These have been sitting for 2 years so I have no idea who’s stuff or what stuff is in these. Loaded up with road base for the ride home and left the dump at 26,880 lbs. drive home was uneventful but I need to order all new brakes. I have zero brakes and the running lights don’t work. I’m assuming it’s a ground issue. Will work on that soon.

Went to get another’s box today but the floor is gone. Grabbed another one. Will have to hand empty the one with the bad floor to the one I got today. That should be fun.

Brett

 

[woody]

pictures don't forget the pictures please

 

[rustyshakelford]

pictures don't forget the pictures please

I need to get some more pics. Hauled another load to the dump today and brought back nearly the same as the load on Thursday. I think I was within 100 lbs with a different size box. 3 buckets from the track hoe is the ticket to 11k of rock.

Figured out the running light issue, there a bad connection between two lights that kills them all down stream. I ran a jumper wire and back fed the other direction. Everything is good but I might cut the bad section to make sure it won’t ground out. Problem is it’s ran inside the frame completely and can not get access to where it is.

Brett

 

[aczlan]

Can you tape a new wire to the old wire and use the old wire to pull in new wire?

Aaron Z

 

[rustyshakelford]

Can you tape a new wire to the old wire and use the old wire to pull in new wire?

Aaron Z

I’ve considered that but for the moment I’m going to run it this way. I think I could just shove a fish all the way back there but the access is crappy at best. There’s no telling how many times they wrapped the wires in tape to keep them together so I’ll more than likely be having to run something down there to pull a new wire vs using the original. I really don’t want to require this trailer as I think it would be a genuine nightmare. On top of that the frame is 3/16” thick and hard to drill thru. New plasma will be here tomorrow and I’ll have more options.

Brett

 

[rustyshakelford]

Took another load to the dump but stopped off at a real rock place for a load. Total rock came out to 13k and gross was 28+k lbs. dumped it easily. Loving this thing so far. New plasma came in and miller 252 will be here Wednesday. I値l start working on the boxes and making them into something I can use. I値l pull the best two for use as a container and the rest will become flatbeds or sold. Could get 1000-1500 out of each of them I bet. They need a couple hundred in welding but new are 4K

Brett

 

[bindian]

I sure could use one of those, since I sold my dump truck!
hugs, Brandi

 

[rustyshakelford]

I sure could use one of those, since I sold my dump truck!
hugs, Brandi

Why’s you sell your dump truck? These things are pretty dang useful

Brett

 

[bindian]

Why’s you sell your dump truck? These things are pretty dang useful

Brett

Too much $$$$ to get it road legal.
hugs, Brandi