Heavy Duty Triple Axle Trailer Build
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2023
- Watch along as I fabricate a 28 foot 2 Car Hauler/Equipment Trailer.
Built and designed by me at home, in my backyard with minimal tools.
Fully Welded, with no corners cut (How Trailers Should Be Made)
Everything down to the axles will be built by me, No kits or instructions to follow.
Triple Axle 21,000 Pound Capacity
28' Deck Length
8.5 Feet Wide
Drive Over Fenders
12k Winch
Raceline Wheels
Basic, but Badass!
Built By Yours Truly,
Brandon Graber 
Авто/Мото
Dude, the quote at the start. Ive let sooo many people cripple my ambition and creativity... my mom told me a long time ago to be in the driver seat of ur own life...
Yup and she would be right, You can do anything you set your mind to!
Some really good fabrication here, running inner shield down hill on something this scale is scary. I hope your getting the penetration that's needed for something that's bounces down the highway carrying thousands lbs. I'm not seeing it.
Stay tuned 🤙
The actual squaring out of this reminds me of building walls. Except you don't nail in a pallet to keep it square
This turned out really well. Good stuff
Yup same concept
Thanks man I appreciate that!
Awesome trailer build!! I plan to build something similar. When do you think part 2 will be out?
Great job! Way to jump in and learn.
Thanks for watching, appreciate it! 🙌
Hello my friend! What a great job. I'm fascinated by it all
Great build! Love the determination!
For what it’s worth, rather than bend the plate to reinforce your tongue, for the same cross sectional thickness the weld material is stronger than your base metal if you’re using a 70ksi wire. So cut the plate and ensure full penetration in both your cut channel and the splice plate and you’d save yourself some sledge hammering! My 2 cents. But love the determination! I don’t trust my welding enough yet to build a trailer even though I’m an engineer and understand the science!
The right side weld on the tounge looks a bit shady. Would recommand a second pass and even a cap. NBSwelding has lot’s of greate tips 👍🏻
Thank you brother, appreciate you watching and looking out 🤙👊
Cant wait for part two.
I'll get it out soon within 2-3 weeks if not sooner. Thanks for watching!
Coming up great.. good work!!.. 🙂🙂
Thank you👍Appreciate the comment, and watching!
Nice, I'm glad to see the Eastwood MP 250 is working well for something that heavy duty. I haven't used mine yet, have a 10 Pequea trailer I bought that needs some serious repair from the middle back.
Eastwood 250 worked great! In fact it was the smoothest welder I've used, and it worked great out of the box on factory settings. I ended up having a problem where my leads connect to the welder body, and they were backorder and couldn't send me a replacement. Long story short eastwood sent me a refund and I ended up buying the Hobart Ironman 240 which works great. But the eastwood was smaller, and welded better out of the box on factory settings. The hobart I had to tweak and play with more but it also welds great
Good luck on your trailer repair 👍
very good job
Thank you! Part 2 coming soon
Think you can swap the hubs of the 7000 lbs axles to up the load capacity. Say to 8000 lb hubs,ect. To get extra 3ton in axle weigh capasity. Eliminating restrictions of the weight of trailer includes. , still has to match what the truck will tow. On the tow rating tag. Think the 3\4-1ton trucks are rated for 8400 lbs. The 1 tons are rated for 1 ton less then the 3\4 tons also. So a 3\4 ton beefed up to 1 ton loads will tow like the 3\4ton weight restrictions , plus. the extra ton I get with the 3\4 ton tow capacity takes the weight of goodness subtracted. Then the trailer weight ultimately is subtracted from extra ability of the axle hub rating upgrade. IF ADDING A FLAT DECK TO KEEP LOW CENTER OF GRAVITY ASWELL. EVEN BETTER. DUALLY UPGRADE FOR STABILITY ALSO. ONLY USE FOR THE 8'TOP DECKS. SPARE TRANSMISSION, EXTRA TIRES, TOOLS. ON SIDE OF SLEEPER CAB. LIGHS, CHAINS, STRAPS BOX U DER GOOSENECK TOP DECK NEAR JACKS.
Non CDL, NOT FOR HIRE TRUCKS, PRIVATE USE TRUCKS
You can take Jack apart and rotate the bottom 90 so the handle is on the side for the drop leg at least on some I have used
Good to know, I'll look into that!
I am curious about the diamond reenforcement plates you 100% welded the edges, but is there a reason beyound more work not to also cut some plugholes and plug weld the plate as well?
The reason i ask as i have seen this done on my uncles trailers in Germany, the trailers where made in Germany, seems like a good way to do it but maybe it is good old German over engineering at play.
Thank you for the video, Take care. God bless one and all.
I would have done multiple pases on flux core and probably used something like a e71t-11 wire, I rather have a trailer like this one than a name vrand for triple the price.
What are the specs on your main beams? Your cross beams, spacing?
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Do you have to have a cdl license just to drive this away from your building site?
I mean technically yeah, but I rocked that trailer for about a year and a half before getting my cdl
Can you give me the measurement on your axle placement im going to build a 30 foot bumper pull too
Would cutting releafs in those fish plates to bend them make dem redundant?
I'm pretty sure i didn't just see you dip your tip in nozzel gel right before doing a wild. I must be imagining it. I'm sure you know that you dip your tip then do a couple inches on scrap metal to avoid porosity in a weld that matters...
I didn't know that, I thought the gel was to protect the copper tip from getting excess build up on it. Either way welds are holding up great 👍
Nice job , Did you build the saw horses ?
Yes I did, I was inspired by the stands Waldo used in his trailer build from Waldo's World
I'm really hoping the perspective is messing with me. It's seems like all of your filet welds are concave. But see i know that can't be true because you appear to know what you are doing. You would know that concave Flux core filet welds are almost guaranteed to break... hopefully it's camera angles deceiving me...
Did you ever make a 2nd video?
Working on it as we speak, sorry I have been extremely busy
Target trailer weight?
Brandon. Now that you have used the trailer for awhile, what if anything would you change?
There are only 2 issues that I have with this trailer. One is that the axles are a little too far forwards, and number 2 is that the back dovetail is a little high and requires me to jack up the front of the trailer and or find a low spot to load up in so that the back of the trailer is as low as possible.
Both of those issues also have benefits, axles being too far forward allow for the trailer to maneuver and follow the truck very well in tight spots and not pull like a traditional 2 car trailer where you need to swing wide. The dovetail being so high is nice because I have barely ever ran into a situation where the rear of the trailer bottoms out leaving a gas station or steep.
With all that being said, I go back and forth about what I could change or do differently, but this trailer works and tows perfectly and everything on it works so its stay exactly how it is 👍
That outside channel needs turned around, then u have infinite places to tie down
Is Part 2 of the build still coming?
Yes! I'm very busy at the moment and haven't had time to edit.
It's coming
How did you get a title for it??
Went to the dmv and registered it as a homebuilt. It's an SPCNS title stands for specially constructed. Actually very easy process when you have receipts for materials and pictures of the build.
Looks great. What is the cost of materials?
Thank you! I will be posting it in the final video, sorry to keep you waiting. I'll get it out soon!
@@brandongraberlooking forward to it
Sorry, asked the questions before you addressed them in the video.
No worries hope that answered your questions, target weight is under 5,000 lbs
Oh gah please buy or borrow a plasma for that much cutting. Or at least a chop saw.
No need, I got clean, straight cuts with the cut off wheel👍
Ur lightning doesn’t strike the same place lol
U can’t hurry welding