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Default Bolting a trailer and welding?

You're starting to make me nervous?
In what part of the country will you be towing this thing?

My recommendation: go to a lot that sells new trailers. Look. Learn.
Northern hydraulics sells a book that teaches building trailers


"stryped" wrote in message
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I am just thinking here about that trailer. I may never build it but
if
I did get materials and did try to make it out of that 2x2 or 2x3
square tubing, what if I mafe a triangle gusset for each corner on the
bottom.
Drilled through the top tubing through the gusset, then installed a
grade 5 carriage bolt or something. Then welded the whole thing also? I
guess I am trying to "over engineer' it. I can weld, but have never had
training. I have never had anything really come apart that I have
welded, but on something like a trailer, I would like to take every
precaution I could.