Trailer Tips Blog

I have an eight foot trailer. The axle is three feet from the back of the trailer. I am building a nine foot trailer. How far from the back should the axle go?

I have great welding skills, but I have no clue what materials to use, or what the stadnards of strength/weight are. Any help you can offer would be great.

I’m converting a simple trailer with steel frame and wood decking to an enclosed trailer with aluminum walls and a roof ventilation cover.

I have a horse trailer that needs auxiliary power run to it from my truck - and/or an auxiliary battery on the trailer. I am unsure of the wiring that needs to be done. I plan on running a wire from my truck battery back to the 7-pin connector which should provide auxiliary power while connected to my truck. I understand I need to install a battery on the horse trailer to supply power when disconnected from the truck.
Can you provide me some insight on how this all comes together?
Thanks in advance… !

carlton1983 asked:

I have a 2001 chevy blazer with both a flat and round plug in the back for pulling trailers. I have a boat with a trailer, but the lights don’t work. Fuses in truck are good, bulb is good, wiring on trailer is good. Is there an easy way to tell if the plugs on the truck are getting any power?

me asked:

my trailer is white. I have a pic of it in my yahoo 360 photo album. I wanna remove it so it looks more like a house, and less of a trailer. Any one ever remove their trailer hitches. I know it can be done. Some of my trailer park neighbors took theirs off. They don’t like me, so i don’t wanna ask them though.

MRJS asked:

I converted a boat trailer into a utility trailer.

There is a green and brown wire running down the right side.

There is a yellow and brown wire running down the left side.

Each wire is carefully soldered and shrink tubed.

There is a white wire (ground) attached to a ring connector and soldered. It’s attached to the trailer with a screw. I sanded off the paint to expose bare metal.

The lights don’t work.

I’m pretty sure there are no cuts or discontinuities anywhere.

What I think is the problem is that I screwed each lamp in the back to an angle iron. The angle iron is screwed to wood.

So, is that messing things up? Do the lamps have to be screwed to actual metal of the trailer for proper grounding?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.