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As shown before, this was the first trailer we had for our gutter machine.  It was only a small 5' x 10' trailer.  We wanted to keep it as light as possible, since it was to be pulled by an Acura 4 door sedan with only a 2700cc V6 engine.  With all the tools and ladders, it is some times all it can do to get up a steep hill.

This is in February of 2001, just shortly before we dismantled it to move the gutter machine off, and in to the new trailer.  It originally came with a single axel with larger tires from a used mobile home axel set, cut down to be narrower. That type of axel was cheap, but the rim was near impossible to balance and was giving me a bit of a vibration.  So I had changed it over to these two smaller axels.  It worked OK, but it was pretty cramped to move around the machine inside the trailer.  also, if I needed to store a box of new downspouts, the inside was just a few inches too short.

I later rebuilt this small trailer as well.  I first used Liquid Nails adhesive on the 'I' beam surface and then mounted the aluminum skin on them and used twice as many of the 3'16" rivets.  So far so good, but this does not permit any future changes if I want to reuse any of the frame or skin parts.

In hopes to make a trailer as light as possible, I actually set up this small 4'x 8' trailer to be used for the gutter machine.  But once I found out that the gutter machine weighs a ton, without a 400lb coil of gutter sheet metal, I realized that this would not have worked.  Beside the fact that there was no way to get the 400lb coil onto the machine with the fork lift.  So I just use this trailer for light hauling

Here I have begun to dismantle the old trailer in my work shop we had in Clackamas

I had the back doors off, along with the front, left side, as well as the roof panels.  Again, you can see here how cramped it was inside.

Here it is with most all the aluminum skin removed.  You can better see the 2x2 wood frame. The aluminum skin does a lot to add structural support to this shell, once it is screwed onto this frame.

I had mounted an outdoor carpet under the wood frame base, over the birch plywood deck.  But that did not permit me to replace the carpet when it wore out and began to look ragged.  It was also more difficult to inspect if  the deck had any water damage.

After a few years I gave up roofing work all together, since it was a great deal of dangerous work, and there was not enough money in it, due to the fierce competition.

Before I got ready to do the transfer of the gutter machine, I had to spend a good deal of time flipping over, sanding, and resurfacing the floor boards.  I re-bolted them to the steel frame with Stainless steel carriage bolts this time.  To minimize the weight, I realized I did not need to deck it under the gutter machine.  This would also leave it a little lower to the ground, lowering the center of gravity.  I simply slipped a sheet of aluminum to shield it from the road grime.  This will also allow access to do some work on the machine rollers from underneath.

Here  we are lifting the gutter machine off the old stripped down trailer, after they removed the gutter coil you see in the back ground.  I also had to remove the aluminum covers on top to place the nylon straps they used to lift the gutter machine with.

Here it is getting the gutter machine loaded onto it with a fork lift at Custom-bilt Metals, where I had bought the gutter machine. They were very kind to do the transfer at no charge.