Sunday, June 26, 2011

[papercreters] Make a mixer from an old pickup-bed trailer

I've read most everyone who's made tow-mixers start with a rear-end & build the trailer onto that...or incorporate that into a trailer, however you wanna say it.

But I've got (or have had access to, for a while) a trailer made from what looks like an old 3/4ton pickup-bed. Heavy duty shocks & springs still in place (so the bed sits WAY up high from the rear-end).

Any thoughts on how I'd start modifying this thing to make a mixer out of it? Am I gonna have to get those shocks off & drop the floor, or can anyone think of a way to "extend" the drive-shaft of the rear-end (to get into a tank sitting at the truck-bed level) once it's turned vertical?

Thoughts, considerations, suggestions all welcome!

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