So our organization has a problem. We need a trailer of our own. We have to borrow one every time we need to move a car, and that gets tedious and just really isn't a way to conduct business. So I got to thinking. We have an organization with lots of volunteer labor, some skill, and a need for a trailer. Most of us are Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineers, or some combination of the two.
How unreasonable is it to think we might build our own car trailer? It seems like if we can use off-the-shelf components for the obvious parts (hitch, axles, fenders, etc.) and build the rest of it using square tubing with a wooden deck, we might be able to wind up with a pretty nice unit. We could either A. buy plans for one, or B. reverse engineer an existing trailer, making our own plans and performing our own analysis.
So, how about it? Anyone ever built/designed their own trailer? What kind of a budget would we be looking at? Anything over about $1K and it would no longer be cost-effective for us. I (obviously) haven't done any serious analysis beyond this yet, just kicking around a proposal.
