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Being a lake bum in Texas
These deals popping up lately have been too tempting haha.
After realizing that the 9ft service bed on my truck was too small for all my tools, and was killing my fuel economy, decided that moving the tools to a trailer would be the best option. Lucked out and found this 11ft Reading bed for $250 that was a few miles down the road and in much better shape. The planned trailer to pick it up was occupied so used this small but stout trailer to recover it.
Trailer wasn't a high priority since my truck currently can't pull a gooseneck until the bed gets swapped and for some reason people here think that a used gooseneck is worth about as much as new. Well a buddy mentioned today that one of his neighbors is selling a little lightweight gooseneck flatbed for cheaper than I could turn a truck chassis into a trailer. After a little bit of negotiating I now have a 20ft gooseneck trailer. Needs a hub rebuilt/replaced and tires.
Little bit of heavy lifting with the forklift
And voila, now have the main parts assembled for the service trailer.
The trailer deck is 8ft wide while the service bed is 7ft 7in wide so with the bed centered there are 2 1/2in of extra trailer width. I kind of like that because if I happen to be towing it somewhere and end up scraping the trailer edges, it doesn't shred the box.
After realizing that the 9ft service bed on my truck was too small for all my tools, and was killing my fuel economy, decided that moving the tools to a trailer would be the best option. Lucked out and found this 11ft Reading bed for $250 that was a few miles down the road and in much better shape. The planned trailer to pick it up was occupied so used this small but stout trailer to recover it.
Trailer wasn't a high priority since my truck currently can't pull a gooseneck until the bed gets swapped and for some reason people here think that a used gooseneck is worth about as much as new. Well a buddy mentioned today that one of his neighbors is selling a little lightweight gooseneck flatbed for cheaper than I could turn a truck chassis into a trailer. After a little bit of negotiating I now have a 20ft gooseneck trailer. Needs a hub rebuilt/replaced and tires.
Little bit of heavy lifting with the forklift
And voila, now have the main parts assembled for the service trailer.
The trailer deck is 8ft wide while the service bed is 7ft 7in wide so with the bed centered there are 2 1/2in of extra trailer width. I kind of like that because if I happen to be towing it somewhere and end up scraping the trailer edges, it doesn't shred the box.