Gussets Finished

Finished welding all of the gussets today.  I ground off the welds from the top of the frame to allow the floor of the trailer to lie flat as well as make it easier to position the corner posts of the walls square with the frame.  With them gone and the top of the frame flat, the square 2x2 tubes will lie much flatter and form a stronger weld than the irregular gaps that would be there if I balanced the tube on the welds and just filled them.

Now I am waiting on the hubs from Northern Tool.  I have the axle stubs for the axle.  I also need to get another stick of 2x2x.125 wall square tube to fab the axle.  unfortunately, I will also need to buy at least one wheel/tire combination to get the length of the axle correct with 100% certainty.  I want to keep the overhand of the axle as short as possible, which means keeping the tire as close as possible to the frame of the trailer without actually hitting it.  Typically, a space of one inch is used as the distance between the tire and frame.

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