How to make a car trailer with your own hands?

A car trailer is a very convenient and practical vehicle for transporting goods to any distance. With its presence, you do not need to be afraid for the interior and the condition of the running gear, which at full load entails a loss of handling, not to mention the soiled seats and trunk. That is why today we will consider the question of how to make a trailer with our own hands.

Getting Started

To begin with, we need to prepare all the tools and devices, including pipes of rectangular and square section. To make a trailer with your own hands, you need to prepare several meters of pipes with a cross-section of 60x30 and 25x25 millimeters, which will later be used for spars, traverses and racks. At the first stage it is necessary to combine a frame with a body, namely with its frame grid. Electrode welding is involved here, so the availability of specialized equipment is mandatory here. To make the frame strong, you can additionally connect the pipes with self-tapping screws, but to achieve the greatest efficiency between the body and the frame, you need to weld a few more crossbars. 5 metal corners are enough for a car trailer. Next, we need to install racks on the crossmember.

Borta

After you have installed the body on the trailer, you need to take care of one more detail. The side must be made folding and preferably not only on one side. The thickness of the metal should not exceed 10 millimeters. As for the grating platform, it should be covered with a duralumin sheet of iron with a thickness of approximately 2-3 millimeters. After that, you need to screw it to the first device. It is desirable to use as a connecting element not welding, but bolts with the marking M5. Thus, you will get an even and strong floor, on which you can safely transport any building materials.

Suspension

As a beam, you can use a couple of thick channels, but here you need to take into account one nuance. If you use a very thin material, perhaps it will not withstand all the loads. However, do not forget that with each new corner and square you weight the construction of the trailer. Therefore, choose a channel that, due to its small mass, will be able to withstand a load of 700-750 kilograms. In the course of the work, it is also necessary to weld two wheel axles to both devices in advance. If lumens are formed, seal them with a thin piece of galvanized steel. As a wheel, you can use the elements from any old machine. The same applies to the spring. Why do not we use springs? Yes, because the load in more than 1000 kilograms (curb weight + additional load) is unlikely to withstand a couple of such devices. Do not forget to install the drawbar.

Lighting technology

All car trailers at the moment are equipped with at least a pair of turn signals and lights. Therefore, the issue of illuminations comes first. And since further you will need to register this vehicle in the traffic police, pre-set the place for the license plate and the backlight to it on your trailer.