This is a new trailer based on experiences from the last one:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18671
that is buried with Fred (melted around her in the house fire).
First, I was going to use the wire crate I already had at the apartment, but it is huge. (most of these pics are actually from *after* I widened the trailer, but...)
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It's much wider than the trailer...and realistically, so will be any other crate or kennel I can use for Tiny (even my other one for Hachi/etc had been bigger than the trailer could relaly fit, and rubbed on the wheels sometimes, alwayws with a load in it other than a dog laying down). So I proceeded to modify the trailer itself to be widened at need.
Now, remmeber that widening the trailer means it will no longer fit thru a doorway, or even thru some of the bike paths that have the poles at each end, and definitely won't fit on many sidewalks if I ever had to use them with it (I try never to, but very occasionallly there is no other safe path to get somewhere). So any method I can use that isn't "permanent" is better.
My first thought was to just move the WHEELS outboard further, since their mounts are separate parts of the trailer. I thought I'd just use a side piece of a 10-gallon metal aquarium stand I'd acquired a few weeks back on super cheap clearance (as part of an idea for cargo rack I haven't been able to build yet), But it turns out I'd have to do some serious mods to the mounts and hte "frame', and I don't have the Unibit here at the apartment and it may well have been stolen by looters at the house (they've begun breaking into the sheds now), and I also don't have bolts and nuts long enough to secure it all together, and woul dneed to go buy some. Wanted to try to do this "now" (monday, at the time), so....
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Since that probably wouldn't work out as well as I wanted, I decided to just widen the whole trailer, by cutting the bed in half and bolting extensions inside/outside the tubing. I had stuff right here at the apartment that I knew would do that, so.... Also, I could more easily unbolt one end of each extension, slide the halves back closer together, and thus have a trailer that will still fit thru doors/etc., when not being used as a kennel trailer.
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Some connections were obvious, but a few I had to ponder. Some bits I had were *just* too short but I managed to repurpose at least two parts of that ex-razor foot scooter I'd found in the trash here at the apartments.
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Batery getting low so rest in next post if ther'es time.
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http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18671
that is buried with Fred (melted around her in the house fire).
First, I was going to use the wire crate I already had at the apartment, but it is huge. (most of these pics are actually from *after* I widened the trailer, but...)
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It's much wider than the trailer...and realistically, so will be any other crate or kennel I can use for Tiny (even my other one for Hachi/etc had been bigger than the trailer could relaly fit, and rubbed on the wheels sometimes, alwayws with a load in it other than a dog laying down). So I proceeded to modify the trailer itself to be widened at need.
Now, remmeber that widening the trailer means it will no longer fit thru a doorway, or even thru some of the bike paths that have the poles at each end, and definitely won't fit on many sidewalks if I ever had to use them with it (I try never to, but very occasionallly there is no other safe path to get somewhere). So any method I can use that isn't "permanent" is better.
My first thought was to just move the WHEELS outboard further, since their mounts are separate parts of the trailer. I thought I'd just use a side piece of a 10-gallon metal aquarium stand I'd acquired a few weeks back on super cheap clearance (as part of an idea for cargo rack I haven't been able to build yet), But it turns out I'd have to do some serious mods to the mounts and hte "frame', and I don't have the Unibit here at the apartment and it may well have been stolen by looters at the house (they've begun breaking into the sheds now), and I also don't have bolts and nuts long enough to secure it all together, and woul dneed to go buy some. Wanted to try to do this "now" (monday, at the time), so....
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Since that probably wouldn't work out as well as I wanted, I decided to just widen the whole trailer, by cutting the bed in half and bolting extensions inside/outside the tubing. I had stuff right here at the apartment that I knew would do that, so.... Also, I could more easily unbolt one end of each extension, slide the halves back closer together, and thus have a trailer that will still fit thru doors/etc., when not being used as a kennel trailer.
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Some connections were obvious, but a few I had to ponder. Some bits I had were *just* too short but I managed to repurpose at least two parts of that ex-razor foot scooter I'd found in the trash here at the apartments.
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Batery getting low so rest in next post if ther'es time.
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