Easy home made solutions

in #hive-1305609 months ago

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When I bought the trailer for the car, I took a look at all the accessories they offered to complement it. Most of them were interesting and useful but I only purchased a soft cover to protect anything from rain while traveling. I thought of these pair of legs to keep the trailer balanced while loading and unloading but the price was too expensive and I thought I could manage a cheaper solution.

I have started loading as days go by to make sure I do not forget anything when I leave and pretty soon I have experimented with how it loses the balance if I am not careful in placing the load equally distributed which is not an easy task when setting everything there.

Looking for options I tested an old pair of car stands from my dad and they worked pretty well so I decided I would go to the store and purchase two of them to place on the opposite side of the jockey wheel

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I went to a local store and could not find any so started looking around for solutions and ended up finding a fence post base I decided to purchase together with the post to just make a homemade solution with the circular saw.

In this photo you can see the post base I got from the store, I purchased two of them together with the wood post which you see after I had it already cut to the correct measure.

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Here's a photo of both parts together

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This is the final result with the leg at its position.

Of course, there is only one position, although I could play with the holes in the support and have two or even more If I drill new holes, the reality is that I only need one position to keep the trailer even. I can play with the jokey wheel elevation to make sure the trailer sits in the legs.

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All in all, a €20 solution for both legs and an additional little practice with the circular saw with less than 20 minutes work.

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A good solution and saved some money too. Well done.

The part I like the most is thinking and figuring out different solutions I can create myself to accomplish the same results. The easy thing would have been to purchase the car stands or even directly the legs from the trailer manufacturer.

It is gonna be fun with the house restoration in Portugal.

Working it out for yourself and saving a little money is a good way to go.