I went to my favorite cheapo one man operation kinda place that sells antiques and lots of old equipment form trailers to tractors to implements about 10-15 miles from my home and I scored a pickup bed trailer and an old sign from either a farm sprayer or fuel station buisness all together for $100 and sold the sign to a guy across town from me for $85 an hour later. I was headed out that way already so I had no fuel investment. It is made from a 69-79 "Dentside" ford ranger. It is a clevis hitch, so it has a bit of shake when you stop, but other than that pulls perfectly straight and does not bounce around even at 70 on the highway.


I took the dirt roads on the way home because this trailer had no lights and the truck license plate was still on it that was last registered in '94 with almost no paint. Our house is on the highway though, so pulling out of the dirt roads we had to pull it about 3 miles down the highway to get there. At the dirt roads end though, there is a cotton trailer that has home grown fruit that a farmer sells that we had to stop at for a watermelon. We pulled up to it thinking we were in the clear, but as we were pulling up to it we met a very interesting man at the intersection of that dirt road and the hiway. That "interesting man" was a hiway patrol. You can imagine our faces as we first saw him sitting in his patrol suv as we pulled up to that fruit trailer with no lights or registration on this rolling ticket staring him right in the face.

I knew for sure he was going to pull us over as soon as we got on that hiway. But to get to our home, we had to go down the hiway right in front of him, go to the hiway turn around, and pass by him a second time. We pulled into the driveway with a scared look on our face and no ticket.


Now for some pics
Side vew


The bed before I cleaned it out

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The bed after I cleaned it out



The new tail lights I mounted


The reason it was so cheap


The reason it was cheap #2


The reason it was cheap #3


I dropped the smelly but empty rear tank so I can mount a spare and sell the old tank and filler necks off


The cool sign that was in it


What do you think of this $15 investment?

 

why the hell cant i find things like this?!?!

nice score!!!!!!

 

, im sure someone out there needs that box!

 

I might be going back agin sometime this month for an old calf/goat/pig trailer that was there for cheap. Will let yall know!!! Keep those replys comin'!!

 

buy these trailers, then sell them to me for double the price. its a win win for you!

 

You coulld sell it to the scrapyard for 6 or 8 times the price.

 

Also true. I would get the trailers i needed then buy all kinds and scrap them

 

I managed to mount the toolbox you see in the pic onto the tongue and it fits buetifully. I went to the hardware store and bought a piece of angle steel and some bolts for $10.01 and made a mount for the back of the toolbox. The frame already had the holes drilled in it, so all I had to drill was the tooolbox and angled steel. The angled steel goes underneath the back of the toolbox and it is now rock solid. I made the spacers/risers from a shop creeper frame with bad upholstery with the holes already drilled in it and it worked great. If you look at the pic of the passenger side, the tongue points slightly down hill, and that is the reason for the riser on the front of the toolbox. Now both the trailer and toolbox sit level. Will get yall a pic of that!! Keep the replys coming!!