Where to buy "draw bar" for trailer

[Mike Halmarack]

Repeat offence?

[John]

Computer stuttered.

Sorry

[Guy King]

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I've always wanted a train of little trailers - like the sort they used to carry bombs round airfields on.

[TMC]

Years a go I made an upward extension of 18" to my trailer by making a cage out of reinforcing mesh (about 6" square mesh made of 5mm diameter steel the sort used for concrete floors)

bent it to shape a treat and welded the corners lift up flap at the back padlock for some security etc

made fixings to fit it to the trailer and a new cover from lorry side curtain material machined up on SWIMBO's sewing machine with upholstery thread and leather needle)

Mind you I had built the trailer myself in the first place

Used it for camping holidays in France for several summers, its done about

6,000 miles by now and apart from needing new shock cord is as good as new

Well worth the effort but I suppose it depends on how much you intend to use yours

Tony

[Guy King]

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There's a lot to be said for making your trailer yourself. Off the shelf trailers are rarely good for anything except trips to the dump (barring specialist things like canoe trailers and horse boxes[1]).

They're dead easy to make and you can fit 'em out to suit whatever particular task you have in mind. I knocked up a 2' deep 4'x3' one a couple of months ago to go camping. Takes the kit nicely leaving just the bikes in the boot. I thought of putting the bike carriers on top of the trailer but there was no need. The trailer fits nicely inside the tent and provides a good solid table for cooking - one which the wife and kids can lurch into without spilling everything, unlike camping tables.

[1] you know how horse boxes have things like bow doors at the front which open to allow the horse to see out? I'd never seen them open during transit before but one the other day was and at 50mph the horse seemed to be enjoying it hugely. Lips flapping in the breeze it was leaning as far out as it could and I swear if it could have giggled it would have.

[soup]

Which one is Guy?

[Rob Morley]

Or just fore/aft, to keep the weight low. Probably not the safest thing to have sticking out the side, though, and it might wreak havoc with the aerodynamics.

[Guy King]

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[Guy King]

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Trailers don't do "aerodynamics". Except Airstream caravans of course. And possibly those little trailers made from a top-box.

[Rob Morley]

I was thinking that they mostly sit in the wake of the car, and extending the width might cause buffeting at the sides.