That works! And will last forever.

I have a junk trailer made from old bedframes by some creative person back around ...1960? before?? and the durn thing has held up to all manner of abuse.

 

Thank you.

And thanks for that idea; I have enough bed frame left to make a larger yard trailer for one of the tractors! I have an 8 or 10 cu-ft Agrifab that has held up, but flexes and creaks when full of wood.


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My astonishingly ugly junk trailer creaks and flexes, but never lets me down. And it's carried big loads of firewood and traveled across half the country when I moved. It's some odd size like 3'8" by 7'3" (I think it was two twin frames), with a 1950ish truck axle that takes modern Ford rims (that makes it solid enough that it's not bouncy, even tho it's light enough to move by hand), and it won't back up at all, but when I need just a little trailer, it's sure handy!

 

Bed frames are my favorite recyclable...

 

bed frames are tough hard steel

Many of the older quality ones are made of spring steel. For my old boss, 15+ years ago, I used to make A/C cages, for both window units and ground units so people would not steal them. At one house in Atlanta it was so bad that I made one that was lagged to the wall studs inside the house. The spring steel is tough enough where normal cheap sawzall metal blades just lose teeth and cut nothing other then the paint. Today they do offer blades that will cut it, but, back then the only real way to cut it was with an abrasive cut off wheel and cordless grinders were not a "thing".

I have made trailers where a good percentage of the trailer was brown bed frames.

The brackets I am making for the stainless steel shelves for my wife's library are being made from bed frames. I already cut them to length on my 14" cut off saw. Now the real challenge is drilling the 1/4" holes for the screws, before I weld them up.