Trailler Drawings???
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Trailler Drawings???
Hi guys, since local companies offer too high prices for a Trailler, I want make my own by myself.
Basically I need town a 12' fishing boat and I want know if there are some WEB pages or books to find drawings, so I can get all materials and built at home.
Any ideas? Thanks guys...
Basically I need town a 12' fishing boat and I want know if there are some WEB pages or books to find drawings, so I can get all materials and built at home.
Any ideas? Thanks guys...
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northerntool.com has a couple books and some plans you can order. Nothing specific to boats. I've got the books and they are more technical than I really wanted. I found a few web pages put up by folks building their own trailers, no URL handy but they give some details. Here's another site I've run across but no idea of its usefulness.
http://www.glen-l.com/books/trbk.html
http://www.glen-l.com/books/trbk.html
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For a 12 foot boat, I would look at buying a used boat/car trailer for a few $100 and modify it to suit your needs. With the high price of steel, you are not likely to save any money unless you buy used steel for the job.
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Let me explain... Here in Venezuela this trailler cost about $900 but steel is so cheap, we have huge iron and aluminun mines so tha's why I preffer doit myself.
Thanks for the help, any other ideas or Links will be appreciate...
Thanks for the help, any other ideas or Links will be appreciate...
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Might browse through eBay, take a look at those for sale, and use them as a guide to building one. Obviously won't have specs but if you're fairly familiar with structural work, you can pretty much guess how it's put together.
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My suggestion, is to forget looking at plans on-line. Most places want you to buy them. If you have to buy them, then order the trailer building books from Northerntools.com.
What I have done in the past for dump trailers is to go look at the nicest most expensive ones and copy their ideas and write down the name of the components used (example: Prince Hydraulics).
For a 12 foot boat that weighs under 1500 pounds, your main frame the hitch is attached to can be 4 x 4 x 3/16 tubing. If you are going to hit rough roads or the boat weighs a lot more then I would go with 1/4 tubing instead. Your side frame rails can be 3/16 channel that the axles and springs attach to. Your cross members can be 1.5 x 1.5x 1/8 tubing. From measuring various trailers, centering the axle about 5/8 in the middle from the front seems to work the best.
What I have done in the past for dump trailers is to go look at the nicest most expensive ones and copy their ideas and write down the name of the components used (example: Prince Hydraulics).
For a 12 foot boat that weighs under 1500 pounds, your main frame the hitch is attached to can be 4 x 4 x 3/16 tubing. If you are going to hit rough roads or the boat weighs a lot more then I would go with 1/4 tubing instead. Your side frame rails can be 3/16 channel that the axles and springs attach to. Your cross members can be 1.5 x 1.5x 1/8 tubing. From measuring various trailers, centering the axle about 5/8 in the middle from the front seems to work the best.
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Must be a heavy 12 foot boat?
I once had an aluminum 12'boat and a five horsepower outboard. I made a couple of ramps to the gate and two rails for the bed so I could slide the boat into my 8 foot pickup bed and tie it off by myself. Even added two red refectors to the back of the boat so people behind me at night could see it sticking out of the bed.
Took about three trips to make my old Lab retriever understand he had to get out of the boat before I could get the boat unloaded from the truck. (That dog loved to ride in the boat no matter if it was on the water on in the bed of the truck. A neighbor called me at work one day during a terrible rain storm to say my dog had been he was sitting in the boat for over an hour. He had dug under his kennel fence and I guess that's where he figured that I would eventually be. Or he might have figured that because he had labored so hard getting out of the dog lot, that he deserved a boat ride and a swim as a reward for his sucessful effort. Or maybe he just figured that since it was raining so terribly hard, that he'd be safer in the boat than in the kennel???)
I once had an aluminum 12'boat and a five horsepower outboard. I made a couple of ramps to the gate and two rails for the bed so I could slide the boat into my 8 foot pickup bed and tie it off by myself. Even added two red refectors to the back of the boat so people behind me at night could see it sticking out of the bed.
Took about three trips to make my old Lab retriever understand he had to get out of the boat before I could get the boat unloaded from the truck. (That dog loved to ride in the boat no matter if it was on the water on in the bed of the truck. A neighbor called me at work one day during a terrible rain storm to say my dog had been he was sitting in the boat for over an hour. He had dug under his kennel fence and I guess that's where he figured that I would eventually be. Or he might have figured that because he had labored so hard getting out of the dog lot, that he deserved a boat ride and a swim as a reward for his sucessful effort. Or maybe he just figured that since it was raining so terribly hard, that he'd be safer in the boat than in the kennel???)
