I’ve had this old trailer in a corner of the farm for the last 7 years or so. It collects srap metal until I have enough to go to the dump. It literally has not moved for 7 years until this week.

I’ve started to disassemble it for possible retro-fitting as a new trailer. We need a canoe trailer to haul canoe and “stuff” on vacation. The plan is to take all the old wood sides off this trailer and bring it into a welding shop to see if we can add a longer tongue and removable racks for the canoe (perhaps even a removable long tongue so the long tongue is only on when hauling the canoe).

This trailer is a hand-me down trailer from my Dad. I used to hate this trailer because it meant more work! It was the wood hauling trailer and Dad would cut up the trees in lengths as long as my brother and I could drag out of the woods, then we’d load them up and bring them home. Having the trailer meant we weren’t done when the pickup was full. I guess I’ve adopted some of his practices as the girls now groan when I say we need to go get more free wood chips.

I’m hoping this is the first of many pictures of the trailer on the road to re-use!