Sunday 15 July 2012

Trailer


As you may be aware to get the cockpit out anywhere you need some sort of trailer… trying to find the correct one is another mission in its self!

We first started off looking at boat trailers, and the shape and size of them are of that near the cockpit. But with the prices of them being that nearly four figures it soon came apparent that there must be a cheaper and simpler way.

So here we go… a Caravan chassis!

Caravan chassis are the same shape as a boat trailer and also nearly the same shape as the cockpit. Caravan chassis come with the huge wooden and polystyrene floor still in place. Getting rid of that was a big task in its self. Then we had to shorten the trailer. We cut off around 4ft off the back of it and used the off cuts to create a back support to hold the shape and also the light board in place.

Once the shape was there then the work of making it from a old unloved Caravan chassis from a breakers to a trailer worthy of towing a Harrier cockpit around began. We sanded down the trailer and decided to paint it white, and paint the axel, hubs and wheels black, along with sheets of marine ply painted in a rosewood varnish. The ‘A’ frame at the front is topped with checker plate and we just tidied up the towing hitch with a new coat of paint. 











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