New Trailer Time

[demarc]

Hey Guys,

Sorry I have been quiet lately. All my time has been taken up with work (travelling between sydney and brisbane), house work or preparing for my June Stanage Bay trip.

December last year I purchased a new second hand 2010, dual axle Redco Sportsman trailer. I got it for a good price, but it had two buggered crossmembers.  At the time I bought this trailer, I didn't think there was anything fatal with my current one. Just didn't have faith it'd make it into Stanage in one piece.

Fast forward to earlier in the year at a Wavebreak trip and I got the boat ready to go. As normal, I looked the trailer over before leaving to fuel up. I noticed, what looked like the paint  cracking on the bend in the crossmember. Upon closer inspection I noticed 2 crossmembers had starter to split. Fatal!

After the Wavebreak trip, I parked the boat up and began rebuilding the trailer I purchased. I bought it for the Stanage trip, which involves 100KMs of corrugation, so I modified it to suit this. Firstly slipper springs had to go. For a multitude of reasons, I'm not a fan. I replaced the slippers for a rocker/roller load-sharing setup rated to 3tonne.

Next I took the rocker/roller kit, custom made hangers and trailer to a welder. I had the crossmembers replaced and suspension welded into position. Once home I took off all the hardware and painted the frame with a zinc based paint. The gal was still good at the front, but the rear needed some attention.

My old trailer had grey wobblers. After a while they caught road grime and left streaks on the hull. I have just had 5 years worth of fishing damage fixed, so didn't want the streaks back. Based on the advice from a few trailer shops, I replaced all grey wobblers with red wobblers, which apparently are more resistant to the road grime. I also built a new keel roller bracket which stretches the full length of the trailer consisting of 13 rollers.

Before changing trailers, I coated all the suspension parts in a mixture of tar/fish oil.

Very happy with all this work, tows like a dream. In a week I'll have a bra made up for the bow to protect it from rocks for the trip.

Cheers!

[kmcrosby78]

Well done Julian, good looking set up there, should do you well for a fair while.

[Luc53]

Looks a good job.

Is that aluminium angle supporting the keel rollers?

[tugger]

Nice looking trailer mate 1770 is calling

[Drop Bear]

Mate that looks mint! The boat looks amazing too!

[demarc]

5 hours ago, Luc53 said:

Looks a good job.

Is that aluminium angle supporting the keel rollers?

No sir. Silver zinc paint. It's solid steel angle, 5mm iirc. 22mm holes, hardest size I've had to drill out.

[demarc]

2 hours ago, tugger said:

Nice looking trailer mate 1770 is calling

Oh yer! Col heading up this weekend. Doubt I'll get a trip to 1770 in before Stanage in June. Loose her again for another week while the bra gets made. It's been in the shop more then my yard this year!! 3 weeks last time for all the war wound repairs.

[demarc]

9 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Well done Julian, good looking set up there, should do you well for a fair while.

Thanks mate! With 48 odd rollers, the boat should luvit. I just have the second spare wheel and electric winch (wife friendly) to mount. 

[demarc]

Hey All!

This trailer I have rebuilt is now for sale if anyone here is interested. I got offered a deal from a mate I couldn't refuse for another trailer which was what I was after originally, hydraulic override breaks, 3.5tonne rated suspension, load sharing.

Will be chasing $4500 for my current trailer. Happy to help the new owner with setting it up at my local river for their boat.

If anyone is interested shoot me a PM, you can see from this thread the $$$ poured into her. 

[Drop Bear]

3 hours ago, demarc said:

Hey All!

This trailer I have rebuilt is now for sale if anyone here is interested. I got offered a deal from a mate I couldn't refuse for another trailer which was what I was after originally, hydraulic override breaks, 3.5tonne rated suspension, load sharing.

Will be chasing $4500 for my current trailer. Happy to help the new owner with setting it up at my local river for their boat.

If anyone is interested shoot me a PM, you can see from this thread the $$$ poured into her. 

Nice one mate. I'm sure you will sell it quickly. They will be lucky to own it

[kmcrosby78]

Good luck with the sale Julian - good looking trailer mate. If you haven't already it would be worth putting up a separate post in the Classifieds section.