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Old 02-28-2013, 11:27 AM   #68 (permalink)
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Using your same chassis you might consider building a structure similar to light aircraft using a tubular frame work and covering it with heavy dacron fabric.

I have seen a trailer made using a coroplast skin over a metal frame. A friend made a fairly good shaped box that fit on a flat bed trailer he covered it with aluminum panels from semi truck trailers but that is more expensive and heavier.

Steel tubing can be easily bent on a wooden deck using blocks screwed into the deck to hold one end.

My econoline gets 17 mpg on the road I can pull a 4 wheel 3000 pound trailer and get 13.
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