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These are Your Stories – the things you share.  We love customer stories whether big or small because they bring us together in the joys and frustrations, successes and learning of Do-it-Yourself.  Please share your experience as well.  If you have a story with a Do-it-Yourself project, especially if you have photos or video with it, please Submit Your Story here.  We’d love to see the accomplishments as well as the things you’ve learned.  Thank you to all who contribute.  Enjoy!  –  See all the Mechanic’s Posts here.

Trail 70 with Motorcycle Trailer

While this customer story is a little outside the normal, it is certainly a fun way to think about trailers.  Sit back and enjoy the story of a small bike, and the fun motorcycle trailer.  With fun photos.  Here is the story.

Customer Story Dumping Flatbed Trailer

This is a customer story of how this one-of-a-kind Dumping Flatbed Trailer came to be.  Words from the builder.

Aluminum Trailer Tongue Break

What is the first thing you think when looking at this image?  “Oh My !!  That’s Awful.” – was my thought.  According to the driver, “thankfully it didn’t happen when I was on the highway ten minutes prior.”  This catastrophic tongue break

Ouch, Cracked Frame

This is a Customer Story about a crack in a trailer frame.  Finding these can be really scary, but finding them at this stage is a whole lot better than finding them after a catastrophic failure.

Building a Teardrop Camper

We see them around, on the highway heading for a weekend away.  They always look so cool and just beg you to find your own adventure.  Just a cute little teardrop camper set to take someone for a great vacation.

Suspension Mounting Too Close

Shopping online is both a boon and a bust.  It is great access to a wide variety of components, but it is a bummer when misleading info causes extra work and frustration.  That brings us to this Customer Story of misguided information about trailer suspension

Harbor Freight Improvement

You have seen them, the inexpensive bolt-together Harbor Freight trailer kits.  While they pack a lot of function, they unfortunately are often something like a rattle trap.  (Not always, of course.)  While they have a cheap rap, they sell a lot of them because there is

A Unique Trailer Project

There is always something to learn when looking at someone’s DIY project.  This customer story about a unique trailer build is no exception.

Trailer Conversion Customer Story

An excellent customer story about a complete trailer rebuild.  We talk about it once in awhile, and we give some advice, but this is the first customer story that is truly about doing a full trailer rebuild and reformat.

House Crane Winch End

A reader submission showing creativity in his lifting Solutions!  A big  Thank You to “A Treehouse Dweller” for this story about building a house crane to access his tall home.  Of course, this is pretty cool in my opinion.