Mark _australia said...Tandem is nice, flat tyre on the way to Gnaraloo?? Who cares
. Rides nicer too.
Only problem I have found with tandems is that they are impossible to move around by hand - with 2 axles and a load on board you can only roll them forward or back, not turn them. Bit of a pain if you need to manhandle them around when not hitched up to a vehicle.
and you can still move a fridge or take sh!t to the tip if need be, unlike a purpose built WS trailer. I had one years ago and it was a pain.
Our earlier version of our trailer as shown below had the aluminium box sitting in our old 8x5 trailer with exactly the same idea of being able to lift the box off with a winch arrangement in our carport when we wanted to use the trailer for other things. Trouble is, having to undo 4 bolts with plates and with so much gear in the box it was just too much hassle so we never used this feature.
This first version of the trailer was quite cheap for us as I'd bought the old 8x5 trailer years ago for $700 or something (it was pretty rusty even back then!) and as I designed and helped my brother-in-law build the aluminium box, he very kindly didn't charge us labour so we only paid for the $1700 in materials. Apparently thanks to our mining boom, the cost of Al and steel has now gone thru the roof. Steel went up another 10% just last Monday so I'm glad we got in when we did.
One of the reasons we got the new galvanised steel chassis and Landcruiser wheels installed was because this old trailer was starting to fall to pieces after being dragged up the limestone track from Lancelin to Cervantes, not to mention many trips to Corros etc.
Below is a photo of this old version of our trailer alongside our Windsurfing Camp trailer which was originally built for hauling 2 Windrush Surfcats double-decker-style around until we modified it to carry our fleet of old windsurfers (which we have now upgraded to all JP 180s and a few 160s.
-Mart
