Lessons Learned - first of many

Originally Posted by Patriot76

Best Lesson of the Year

...First was cutting the roof. The roof on goosenecks is engineered to support the side walls. After some research I thought I could reinforce the side walls to replace the strength produced by the roof...

You had mentioned this detail earlier this year where the trailer walls and roof serve as structural members as a caution to another scrapper who was looking at modifying a trailer. I wondered how you would know about that detail 'cause it is a pretty fine point in the design of a trailer.



Now I know the REST of the story!!

I heartily tip my hat to your willingness to tell your learning stories, especially taking the time to post photos to help the descriptions. Even though it may not be directly related to the subject of scrapping, many of us are independent thinkers and doers who may need to take the roads less travelled to get to our desired result, which is, in the case of your story, a heavy duty trailer for carrying scrap. We need (or want) to take the "long 'way 'round to get to owning a heavy duty trailer because of many reasons...shortage of cash, to make something that suits our needs, etc. And sometimes the scrap that passes through our hands is just begging to be modified to suit our uses.

Thanks, and keep the stories coming!!

Jon.