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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
You are likely not going to put a car trailer in the garage on its side like one of those throw away northern tool trailers. A decent cheap and small car hauler trailer weighs around 1,500 to 1,600 pounds.
I am not saying it cant be done just that you are going to spend more on this tilting system then you are on the trailer its self.
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I'd think a frame with 4x4 inch mild steel segments bolted and crossbraced should be enough strength? What I also had in mind was when it's time to winch up the trailer I might fold out legs into the garage for extra support - think metal casters on the bottom of an L-shape/triangle support to roll it out then placing it down with a support. The one in the back of garage I just back the trailer up into the garage to, the one in the front... i'm not sure yet. But the 4000lbs of trailer weight while being hoisted should just go down the hypotenuse of the triangle to the caster/floor support. (I wouldn't want a ton on each caster! The support be at least a foot square or more to spread it out)
I wasn't planning on having the weight hang off the side of a garage not made for it/it should work freestanding and i'd test it outside first. If it works freestanding I assume it should work the same in the garage. Once vertical just having some kind of locking pins keeping it in place.
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I don't think you are going to be able to bolt extensions on to make it longer. Again a car hauler is not a trailer that comes in a box that can be bolted together. Besides it sounding like a really bad idea over all, when you register the trailer they are going to require a length and width, if you change the length then that's not the trailer you registered. Now you have invalid registration and the trailer is confiscated.
Anything with a deck over 6 feet wide is going to have to be a deck over axle trailer so the deck is going to be high off the ground.
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The trailer would have to be a custom construction I already know this. I wanted the center section to be 'solid' the only bolt on is for the extensions, which I keep as small as feasible. Having seen variable length trailers on the roads elsewhere on hotshotters I don't see why that should be such an issue? Besides which the 'trailer' isn't longer with my design, it just has parts that bolt on to extend. In a way like the difference between letting 12 foot timbers hang out your back tailgate, vs having a modified longer than average tailgate bolted on your pickup - the pickup is still what it was before you bolted on an accessory piece. I mean it's possible i'll have to talk to the state first about legality, it's just i've seen a few trailers like this already on the road up in the oilfields. One simply had instead of two long ladder pieces, was like an extending ladder with four long pieces that meshed - and huge bolts either held it at 24 feet, 32 feet, or 40 feet with removable deck sections past 24 feet. I don't know who built it. I shoulda gotten a picture and that was genuinely variable length. I saw another that could haul either 20 foot or 40 foot containers with again ladder segments that intermeshed.
Deck over dropped axle like on every other car hauler is fine - the fenders seem to be the tallest part.