The New Trailer

You remember my dilemma last year when we were all wondering Will Cubby Survive?, one of the biggest problems was how to get Cubby to the garden tractor hospital, I do have a truck but it has a camper shell and Cubby is too tall for that.

If I removed the camper Cubby will fit if I remove the deck, so to haul Cubby anywhere I would have to take the camper off of the truck, then remove the deck from Cubby, now how do you lift a Garden Tractor into the back of your truck? You use a ramp, now I have to go and get a long ramp...

And even if I had a long ramp, what if I had to haul our No Golfing Cart anywhere? That won't fit in the back of the truck.

If you recall, back then I went down to the local hardware store and rented a U-haul trailer, yes I rented the exact same U-haul trailer two days in a row adding to the cost of Cubby's recovery, and I had to use the little short ramp from my shop to help load and unload him.

Front view of my new utility trailer

I bit the bullet folks, I went down and got myself a trailer of my own, one wide enough for Cubby without removing the deck, and long enough for the No Golfing cart, and I don't have to remove the trucks camper.

Rear view of the new trailer. Cindy's car in background.

And this trailer has a ramp attached to the back.

I even bought a spare tire, cover, tools and a jack just in case I had a flat or needed anything while I am pulling the trailer. There is even a tool / storage box attached to the tongue.

Now what's wrong with this picture?

Before image of the toolbox that looks like a basket.

Just look at that toolbox, it looks like a basket sitting there in my opinion, so my reaction to this was a trip down to the big box hardware store, I came away with a few sheets of metal, nuts, bolts, washers, and gloss black spray paint.

After taking some measurements from the toolbox and writing them down, then taking the list of written down measurements back out to the trailer and measuring again, I corrected my incorrectly written down measurements and commenced to cutting, cleaning and painting the sheets of metal.

My results were six correctly fitting pieces of painted metal that I would use to line the walls of the toolbox.

A trip to Wally World where I grabbed a couple of rubber doormats, I cut them to fit the bottom of the box, you know to keep stuff from sliding around, and this was the final step of my little project.

After image of the toolbox with new walls added.

I now have a toolbox sitting on the tongue of the trailer that doesn't look like a basket, if I want to carry something in the toolbox now it will be a lot more protected from the elements than before.

The new and improved trailer with approved toolbox

I really like the looks of the toolbox now, I think that I should load something into the toolbox and take Cubby for a ride around the neighborhood, or better yet, The No Golfing Cart has given us more than one ride, maybe I could return the favor...