Trailer made from scratch

[Frank S]

for the last few days I have been building a small trailer. My goal was to use up some of the scrap materials I had accumulated over the years.
To start with I had a pair of spindles and hubs with wheels and tires on them. the tires are 7.00 x 15 10 Pl rated I machined off the sq tube that was on the spindles then I welded a short length of 2 3/8" oilfield pipe over the stub then these were welded in the length of 2 7/8" oilfield pipe. This gave me my axle for the start of the trailer

Next I laid up the frame and cross-members and mounted the axle and tongue.
The trailer is basically a 5 ft by 9 1/2 ft utility which easily converts into a 7 ft by 9 1/2 ft flat bed
the frame is made from an old mobile home frame the cross-members are made out of 2 1/2" sq tubing the rear tube is 4" sq tube the tongue is made from 2 pieces of 3" channel.

To clean the old asphalt paint from the trailer I used my oscillating saw it worked much better than anything else I tried
For the wiring I fed a piece of 3/8 DOT nylon Air Brake tubing through both sides from the tongue , the diagonal tongue brace tubes then up through the front fender support tube to the marker light then back down to where a 1/2 " EMT conduit is welded in to carry the wires to the rear of the trailer.