Trailer meets cutting wheel

Yesterday I started to prepare the trailer for the trip to Fillmore, where Bill G, Scott G. and myself will put the wood on and paint it John Deere green. The wood will be stained dark. For now I think we'll take it slow down to Fillmore as I don't have time to wire the trailer brakes. The Durango will need a 7 pin conversion, but I don't plan to do that until I'm done with school.

I wire wheeled the entire trailer yesterday and cut out the cross members that weren't structurally sound. I also cut off the overly built rear bumper. In terms of new steel, I'll be welding in at least one 2x4 cross member and five 2x3 support sections. Economy Steel down in Spanish Fork is going to cut the sections for me as well as sell me some fenders. The trailer surface will be exactly 22' and 88" wide (72" between fenders). Also, next week I have to see about getting a temporary registration for the trailer to be towed to Fillmore. The plan is to make enough of a surface to haul the material on and then take it apart on arrival. I would buy the lumber in Fillmore, but I doubt they have any sort of selection. They don't even have the parts to build a potato gun down there. Below are the pics of the trailer after my work yesterday. you'll notice the clean metal and the missing cross members. (just click on the pics--they get a lot bigger).