stryped wrote:


What other projects?

Stryped,

I *think* this is what he was driving at! IF you have not "built" any
other projects you may need to start with something with a bit less
liability risk should something go wrong.

Tell us about some of your welding repairs, especially those that held
up under hard service for a long time.

A trailer takes a real beating up and down the road hitting pot / chug
holes everywhere. A load on the trailer, the only reason for having a
trailer in the first place, increases the strains and stresses on the
steel *and welds*. Sometimes they *may* have a tendency to "fishtail"
and dance all over the road, having a tendency to flop the towing
vehicle around with its gyrations. Under these circumstances you could
very easily lose control of the towing vehicle and wind up in the ditch
- or worse, a river - with the tractor on top of you.

Several of us probably think you should build a trailer to tow behind
your riding lawn mower before you build one to haul an 8N tractor up and
down the road with.

Perhaps, in the mean time you should just buy a good factory built
trailer WITH BRAKES. ;-)