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Re: BYOT
By:Shawn B
Date: 9/12/2000, 4:13 pm
In Response To: Re: PLEASE help me (Kent LeBoutillier)

The only way I would justify building a trailer is if I could buy a used motorboat trailer *cheap* and add uprights and crossbars to carry boats.

IF the steel and axles are sound, and wheels, tires, lights, and hitch are in working order, you could build one much more cheaply than buying one.

If I could buy the trailer for about $100, and add $100 of accessories to it, it would be worth it.

Shawn

: I built a motorcycle trailer a number of years ago and found that
: by the time I purchased steel, axles, wheels, tires, lights, hitch
: assemblies and all the other stuff that I could have bought one for about
: the same price.

Messages In This Thread

PLEASE help me
Benita Kingsbury -- 9/12/2000, 6:34 am
better shot
Philip Miles. -- 9/16/2000, 4:18 am
I have a trailer *Pic*
Philip Miles, Walton-In-Gordano, N.Somerset. -- 9/15/2000, 6:10 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Brian Wegener -- 9/13/2000, 10:38 am
Bike trailers
Brian Nystrom -- 9/14/2000, 3:27 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
John Waddington -- 9/12/2000, 3:48 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Porter -- 9/12/2000, 1:13 pm
Real wheels
Dale Frolander -- 9/12/2000, 12:24 pm
Re: Real wheels
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:00 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Jack Martin -- 9/12/2000, 11:56 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 11:41 am
Iron costs
Don -- 9/12/2000, 5:01 pm
Re: PLEASE help me
Kent LeBoutillier -- 9/12/2000, 10:52 am
Re: PLEASE help me
tom kurth -- 9/12/2000, 8:29 pm
Re: BYOT
Shawn B -- 9/12/2000, 4:13 pm
things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Jason -- 9/12/2000, 9:56 am
Re: things that I would look for in a boat trailer
Don Beale -- 9/12/2000, 10:11 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/12/2000, 9:14 am
Re: PLEASE help me
Ross Leidy -- 9/12/2000, 9:22 am