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Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby JazzVinyl » Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:21 pm

Went to HF today and saw this:

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby tony.latham » Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:30 pm

That's a really good excuse for buying a MIG welder.

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby GPW » Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:53 am

Tony’s right :thumbsup: , we bought a MIG welder , and that opened up a whole new world for trailer fabrication , and a lot of other things too … like restoring an old classic car to tow it !!! ;)
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby John61CT » Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:30 am

Maybe they should just sell them without the tires
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby booyah » Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:13 am

so I seem to recall this happening before...
My build, 5x8 modified benroy "Smiles to go". Started April 2nd 2015, first trip August 2nd 2015.

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby Homebrewer25 » Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:56 am

It's 5 o'clock somewhere ... time for a :beer:

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby JazzVinyl » Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:06 am

Homebrewer25 wrote:The Northern Tool 5x8 is on sale for $435. https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200612541_200612541
Their folding 4x8 is $330.https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200612544_200612544


No Northern Tool retailer in these parts, and cheapest shipping is $171.00

MIG welder - I wish :-)

I know some folks who weld but none say they "fabricate".
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby Squigie » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:00 am

Those signs have been up in every HF I have been to since 2017 - including two in North Carolina, 2,000+ miles from here.


JazzVinyl wrote:I know some folks who weld but none say they "fabricate".

Show them the light.

When my twins were born, I realized it was time to address the elephant in the room, so to speak, in regards to child safety and containment in our house. We needed a baby gate across an 11 foot span, with offset end points, and we didn't consider it viable to go to with a custom order that would be $800+ and only get used for a couple years.

It was cheaper to buy a welder and some steel, and have at 'er.
At that point, the grand total of my experience welding was doing an incredibly bad job of "puking" two sticks of 7018 onto some bundled steel fence posts with an ancient stick welder, because the family members goading me to "try it" also refused to offer any instruction.
I built the gate and learned a lot.

Then I started fabricating small jigs for other things.

As the baby gate was approaching the end of its useful life, I looked at it in just the right way one day, and remembered that its height was 1" wider than a crib mattress ... and we were about to need another toddler bed.
When the gate came down, I chopped it in a few strategic places, added a couple pieces of steel left over from the initial build, fabricated some feet for felt pads to protect the hardwood floors, and we had a bed frame.

More fabrication started happening for my hobbies and the Nova: Throttle linkage. Cruise control cable brackets. Jigs and fixtures for gunsmithing. Tools for bullet swaging and lead wire cutting. And more.

After the bed frame was replaced by a twin bed, I turned it into a coat rack and some shelves.

Last summer, I built a new front porch roof. The load bearing structure is all steel. Without the welder, it would have cost me thousands of dollars to have built. But with a welder and minor experience fabricating - even just the simple stuff that I've done - I was done for under $800, and had hidden touches like hidden captured nuts for plant hooks. (But not counting the roofing materials. I was working parallel to a roofer re-roofing the entire house, including the sheeting, so I don't include those costs.)
(As part of the immortal baby gate's legacy, I included a piece of it in the porch roof structure. I also plan to put some in the TD frame. That gate lives on in so many ways...)

The only way to fail at fabrication is to never try.
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby tony.latham » Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:17 pm

Here's my handy wife welding her son's teardrop chassis.

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She's a regular fabricator. :thumbsup:

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby JazzVinyl » Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:21 pm

Squigie wrote:Those signs have been up in every HF I have been to since 2017 - including two in North Carolina, 2,000+ miles from here.


HF Trailer sales were suspended nationwide for a few months in 2017 then they started selling them again. They were definitely selling them a month ago (December 2019).

This is a 'new suspension' as of January, 2020.
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby JazzVinyl » Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:22 pm

tony.latham wrote:Here's my handy wife welding her son's teardrop chassis.

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She's a regular fabricator. :thumbsup:

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Now, that IS handy, Tony!!

Congrats!
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby rjgimp » Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:21 pm

tony.latham wrote:Here's my handy wife welding her son's teardrop chassis.

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She's a regular fabricator. :thumbsup:

Tony


That's way better than being an irregular fabricator!

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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby eLink » Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:11 pm

I agree! After a lot of chopping, modifying, replacing, and fixing factory errors on my NT trailer, I realized that I would have been better off building my own.
I'm signing up for a one-day MIG class at a local metal shop.
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby John61CT » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:33 pm

She's a keeper for sure!
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Re: Here we go again HF trailer sales suspended

Postby GPW » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:04 am

All depends on how far you want to take this trailer building “ thing” ? Some of us are “ hooked” and continue to “think” about more trailers .. I’m down to three … :o
But I can buy steel “down the road “ (literally) and with my newfound welding practice from restoring my 50 year old SAAB , making a trailer would be “elementary “ . :thinking:
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