Hi everyone,
I've been telling myself to get a build thread going here so today seems like a good time. The history on the trailer is that my folks bought it used about 12 years ago and it spent the first few years covered a lot of the time. Then it spent the next few years uncovered and got a leak. The leak wasn't noticed for at least 2 winters and the results were not good. A rubber roof was plastered over the aluminum one so that (I think) it stopped the leaking but the damage was done.
A few weeks ago it was towed due south from Iowa to Louisiana and it's now under a total rebuild. I'll post a few picks from time to time, but if you'd like to follow along on Flickr I've been taking pictures of everything and measuring it too:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/91683452@N08/fL3N1W
Here's the trailer before dismantling:
HiLo by
Lineswest, on Flickr
HiLo by
Lineswest, on Flickr
Lots of "not good" there. It only gets better ... like a fully delaminated fiberglass outer skin:
IMGP2948 by
Lineswest, on Flickr
IMGP2982 by
Lineswest, on Flickr
Makes removal easier though
IMGP2989 by
Lineswest, on Flickr
Last little bit of the wall coming down. The wooden beam is completely destroyed from in front of that guide rail all the way to the rear cap.
IMGP3009 by
Lineswest, on Flickr
I'm working up some plans to replace the beam without having to lift and separate the trailer. I was not convinced at all that given the shape of that wall, I could support the thing and work on it at the same time.
A few things I'm trying to remember so that the scope of this doesn't bury me with anxiety:
1) I'm not building a piano
2) Look 'up' and not 'around' at the level of mess. One thing at a time, one decision and step forward at a time.
The roof is a different type of mess, but I'll get the wall at least framed back in and the trailer lifting again before I decide what how or in what order to do that. Stay tuned I guess.
"We have the technology, we must rebuild it"
2000 24' Classic Rebuild
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