In need of a car trailer to get my dead van out of the mother-in-law's yard!

The engine seized in the van when the wife used it to go to her mother's, and so there it sits ruining her lawn instead of ours. There is still good parts value in it, like the radio, so I wanted it home. I am also predicting more vehicle failures in the future--Dodge vans seem to have chronic issues, or maybe its just us.

When the father-in-law gave the kid's a home-built playhouse, he brought it up on an old wreck of a trailer, pulled the pin and left it all. I thought I could make use of the leftovers.

First thing would be to flip it over as it made the axles sit a lot straighter.

It took some help from a jack or two to get it started.

Now it was just a simple matter of disassembling and extending the frame, putting a deck on it, adding lights, winch, fenders, better tires, straight rims ( they were pre-bent and not as a result of my turning over episode), hitch, brakes,...Reality Check-- put a deck and some tail lights on the thing I can probably drag the van home!

I was so tickled with how well it worked I went into town and found another car to haul. To load the car I just tip the trailer up and put a 2x4 under the hitch. As the car comes on the trailer the board falls, and then sooner or later, the hitch gets heavy enough to couple up to the truck.

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Note the electric winch that I had salvaged many years ago.

I'm too lazy for manual work

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