Trailer Rennovation By Darren Cooling

“You can have this old trailer if you want pal, but it needs a bit of work to make it decent again” That sounded like a fair offer if ever I heard one, a free trailer? Surely all it would need is lick of Hammerite, a coat of varnish and it would be as good as new. Or so I thought, a closer inpection revealed the timber was in fact rotten and almost all the steel either looked like it had spent the last five years at the bottom of the North Sea.

I set about dismantling the trailer which revealed the first piece of good news, a solid chassis. This meant I had at least a decent base on which to build the new steel framework and timber on.

I used the RAGE circular saw throughout the job, and it was a revelation, a suberb piece of kit saving both time and effort as well as making the finished result much easier to achieve. The first task was to cut the new pieces of angled steel ready for welding on to the chassis, thus forming the framework. I then used it just moments later, cutting a new piece of marine plywood to size forming the new base.

The trailer all of a sudden was starting to look like it would make it out on to the highway. With the frame and base in place I used the RAGE’s timber cutting capability once again, this time to size the new tongue and groove side panels.

As you can see the finished result is very pleasing, and I can honestly say the RAGE saw was a valuable tool to have on this job, I mean what else could cut the steel and then straight after size a piece of marine plywood – incredible!

'What else could cut the steel and then straight after size a piece of marine plywood – incredible!'

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