I finally own a trailer! Well I'm not going to transfer the title until February when all of our plates are due. Not gonna give the state 2 months of rent when the existing plate is good 'till then.
It is titled as a 1955 Gator Boat trailer---LOL! Don't matter to me what it's called but I do have a 1955 truck too! Yes, it's home-built, my wife's uncle built it back in the 1980s. I have nothing into it as I traded a Craftsman snow thrower and grader blade that I got out of the scrap pile at work. My wife's uncle Jim already has the snow thrower mounted on an older Craftsman tractor that he has. Not the same model as the thrower though. He's 81 and still building all kinds of weird stuff including hot rods.
It needs work and even though Jim was hauling cars, pickups and tractors on it, I'm not sure I will. It's a tilt bed using an old floor jack to raise it up rather than weight shift. Lights all work as they should and it pulls decent. We used the '04 Jeep we also got from Jim recently as it had the correct wiring plug. That Jeep is not real forgiving pulling a trailer on old pavement. There is about 40 miles of newer asphalt on the highway we drive to get to his place but 35 is old. The newer drove perfectly, get on the old and it was quite rough! I will just get a wiring adapter and when we need the trailer we will use my wife's '06 Denali. The old GMC's will probably get their turn too just for shorter hauls.
Plans are to mount a 3,000 lb winch I have on it with a battery box. There is an old pickup tool box laying out back that I might mount it all in. Got to look it over and see what's feasable. At least I won't have to barrow a trailer any more. Might even clean it up and paint it.
It was dark when we got home so this is all I got for pics.
DAC
It is titled as a 1955 Gator Boat trailer---LOL! Don't matter to me what it's called but I do have a 1955 truck too! Yes, it's home-built, my wife's uncle built it back in the 1980s. I have nothing into it as I traded a Craftsman snow thrower and grader blade that I got out of the scrap pile at work. My wife's uncle Jim already has the snow thrower mounted on an older Craftsman tractor that he has. Not the same model as the thrower though. He's 81 and still building all kinds of weird stuff including hot rods.
It needs work and even though Jim was hauling cars, pickups and tractors on it, I'm not sure I will. It's a tilt bed using an old floor jack to raise it up rather than weight shift. Lights all work as they should and it pulls decent. We used the '04 Jeep we also got from Jim recently as it had the correct wiring plug. That Jeep is not real forgiving pulling a trailer on old pavement. There is about 40 miles of newer asphalt on the highway we drive to get to his place but 35 is old. The newer drove perfectly, get on the old and it was quite rough! I will just get a wiring adapter and when we need the trailer we will use my wife's '06 Denali. The old GMC's will probably get their turn too just for shorter hauls.
Plans are to mount a 3,000 lb winch I have on it with a battery box. There is an old pickup tool box laying out back that I might mount it all in. Got to look it over and see what's feasable. At least I won't have to barrow a trailer any more. Might even clean it up and paint it.
It was dark when we got home so this is all I got for pics.
DAC
