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I bought 2 Bruder lowloader trailers and made one roughly scaled 53' lowbed.

https://s19.postimg.org/h72gly2cj/truck_529.jpg

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I cut just in front of the wheels and then added about 7 inches from the center portion of the donor trailer. I bought some angle aluminum to join the 2 pieces.

https://s19.postimg.org/5572ru3er/truck_531.jpg

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At this point if all I was going to haul around was my Bruder excavator it wouldn't have needed any more strength but I thought I might use it for my Premacon machines so I added more aluminum to the underside.

https://s19.postimg.org/4n2a17afn/2011_1229rc0001.jpg

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Nice. Those Bruder trailers do fairly well and can accommodate many modifications.
What are you mainly going to haul on it?

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I would later find out that this trailer would hold a 185 pound friend, the deck portion anyway. The neck was the weak link and the reason it wouldn't be strong enough for use with my Premacon machines.

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I used it for display , as long as it was hooked up to a truck with the landing legs down for support I could put my 30pound Premacon machines on it. Raise the legs and the trailer would bend at the neck.

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I painted it black , added a wood deck with extra aluminum strips that I polished to give it lots of bling.

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I added a King hauler rear bumper, it looks good on the trailer but I never cared for the look of it on the truck.

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My 576L on the trailer.

https://s19.postimg.org/3wels8gv7/027.jpg

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Being a Peterbilt guy , I flipped the mirrors from one side to the other and mounted them upside down. Doing this lowers them as you can see in this pic. Note the landing gear is down to support the weight.

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The wheels needed a little bling so I got creative. My office chair had these chrome caps that covered where the screws were in the arm rest. A little prying and they popped off and made perfect hubcaps.

https://s19.postimg.org/7za85b85v/truck_532.jpg

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Here is a better shot of the hubcaps.

https://s19.postimg.org/bayvnlz0z/073.jpg

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Wow 185 LB person? Thats a lot. Yes those necks aren't that factory strong. What about the axles and the axle mounts? Did you beef those up as well?

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I wonder if it'd be possible to reinforce that neck area to make it as tough as the rest of the trailer?

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I can tell you the axles and mounts are plenty strong, I no longer have this trailer. I took it to work and tied it to the back of my work truck.

https://s19.postimg.org/vr9w63wir/021.jpg

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I pulled that trailer around for an entire weekend , loading it up with paper towels to simulate the big rolls ( seen in back ground ) at one point a co-worker stood on it and went for a short ride until the neck cracked. Didn't break mind you, it stayed together no problem even at 40 mph. Eventually it did break when we tried to load our other yard truck on it.

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Have you any plans to build an RC version of your work rig?

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No , cause that would require me to have a few trailers and with my limited tools building stuff takes a long time. I did see a couple years back someone did make an RC version of this truck.

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Yes I remember someone made one of those trucks. I can't remember who. Very cool though...

Hey, don't feel bad about not having a bunch of equipment for building/fabricating, a lot of us don't have that stuff. And thats Ok too. I have a bunch of hand tools and my trusty dremel with many attachments,,, and I have built and modified all kinds of stuff.
But, we are all amazed with what is scratch built on here by people using those larger tools. It is truly amazing....

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Yeah it’s exclusive rc that built the shunt truck. Think he builds them for 2500$.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Exclusiv...=page_internal
http://i64.tinypic.com/noilpz.jpg

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Ah, that is right... He did a nice job on those...

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He sure does, I remember when I saw his build thread I was very impressed.

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To polish all the aluminum strips I believe I started with 400 grit paper and gradually used finer and finer paper until it looked nice then I used my electric drill with a buffing wheel attachment and some Mothers aluminum polish to give it a nice shine.


https://s19.postimg.org/ahvx5u1k3/truck_546.jpg

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The Tonka going for a ride .

https://s19.postimg.org/81u3rxtr7/truck_559.jpg

https://s19.postimg.org/avx95ej2r/truck_560.jpg

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So what is the trailers overall length now? Also what are the tires made of are they hard plastic or rubber?

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The tires feel like a combo of the two, they are actually pretty nice being that the trailer sells for 20 bucks.