Split-dovetail car hauler trailer

[buggyman1]

Can you post specs (dimensions) for your trailer build;

including your current weight,

material cost (including welding)

and your man hours for the trailer built until this point please.

The trailer is 83 inches wide, the bed length is 20 feet. I'm not sure of the weight yet but I plan on weighing it when finished. Material cost...lots, I bought the metal as I needed it and I used a lot of metal that I already had left over from previous projects, same for man-hours, I just work on it in my spare time and i'm slow but i'm really not in a hurry to finish it.

 

[buggyman1]

I'm thinking of making the fenders myself. I like the looks of the teardrop fenders, but I need drive-over's. I think I can make them out of 10" channel and still make them decent looking. They won't have that classic teardrop look, but I think I can make them strong enough to drive over. Something along the lines of this one.

 

[farm boy00]

Can u get pics of your whole trailer???

 

[franklin2]

I'm thinking of making the fenders myself. I like the looks of the teardrop fenders, but I need drive-over's. I think I can make them out of 10" channel and still make them decent looking. They won't have that classic teardrop look, but I think I can make them strong enough to drive over. Something along the lines of this one.

Educate me on driveover fenders. I am guessing the vehicle runs over them, but how does that work? I can see possibly a wide pickup having enough clearance to drive over them, but I don't see something like a porsche or a corvette driving over the fenders.

The fenders/trailer ride height can become a big deal. A guy I work with borrowed a store bought trailer and could not open the doors on the s10 truck he was hauling and had to crawl through the windows to get in and out when it was on the trailer. I never seem to have this problem with my homemade trailer and when he brought it by I took a look at it. The trailer rode low to the ground. It looked like it would handle well since the center of gravity of the trailer was low, but that made the wheels/fenders very high on each side. My trailer ended up with a higher ride height. Accidentally I might add.

 

[buggyman1]

Can u get pics of your whole trailer???

This is about as close as I can get to getting the whole trailer in the picture with it still in the shop.

 

[buggyman1]

Educate me on driveover fenders. I am guessing the vehicle runs over them, but how does that work? I can see possibly a wide pickup having enough clearance to drive over them, but I don't see something like a porsche or a corvette driving over the fenders.

The fenders/trailer ride height can become a big deal. A guy I work with borrowed a store bought trailer and could not open the doors on the s10 truck he was hauling and had to crawl through the windows to get in and out when it was on the trailer. I never seem to have this problem with my homemade trailer and when he brought it by I took a look at it. The trailer rode low to the ground. It looked like it would handle well since the center of gravity of the trailer was low, but that made the wheels/fenders very high on each side. My trailer ended up with a higher ride height. Accidentally I might add.

Cars will fit in between the fenders, something wide like a buggy or rock crawler can drive over them.

 

[franklin2]

Cars will fit in between the fenders, something wide like a buggy or rock crawler can drive over them.

10-4. I never thought about it also, but I guess you have your deck wrapped around your tires for that to work. My deck doesn't go out and surround the tires. A fullsize 4x4 pickup just barely fits on my trailer, but I can see a off-road buggy needing something wider. I guess that's why you see some of them going down the road on the back of a trailer with dinky little tires on them. Is the width limit before needing a special permit 96 inches? Mine is 96 outside tire to outside tire.

 

[mikehaugen]

10-4. I never thought about it also, but I guess you have your deck wrapped around your tires for that to work. My deck doesn't go out and surround the tires. A fullsize 4x4 pickup just barely fits on my trailer, but I can see a off-road buggy needing something wider. I guess that's why you see some of them going down the road on the back of a trailer with dinky little tires on them. Is the width limit before needing a special permit 96 inches? Mine is 96 outside tire to outside tire.

Many places it's 102"

 

[buggyman1]

Many places it's 102"

I think its 102" here.

 

[ZAR2USA]

Any updates?