Originally Posted by
dzrthauler
Wow, some of you folks seem to have a lot of time and $$ on your hands to make trailers and make more trailers... must be nice. Me, I have to work, no more play time for trailers after I built mine - seriously, must be nice.
I wish I had more money I could then afford a car here in the city to haul my tools around
The bike I found in a basement on a job I was doing. The tires needed patching, some cleaning up and a part here and there. The trailer I got from a bike rental place that was selling off old stock for $50. The rest of the materials I got from the scrap heap.
I've managed to haul all kinds of things around on it. I tied an air compressor on wheels behind it without he trailer loaded up. Carried 2 ten foot lengths of 4" PVC on it. I regularly haul around 50-75lb of tools hung in cases and bags off the sides.
The only shortcoming is that I can't move loads like a 5 gallon bucket of paint. The center of gravity is too high. I'm planning on building a two wheeler or a single wheel with a the wheel trailing the payload area.
I haven't been a bike rider much in my life, but I'm now exercising the potential of pedal power.