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New trailer layout
« on: July 26, 2018, 06:19:25 PM »

I just bought a new trailer 6x12 that I am going to setup for using for boiler installs. I am going to keep most of my parts inventory in it.
Planning on putting a workbench probably on the left side and I think shelves on the front walls. It is a V front and can't decide how to lay it out. I am wanting to have bins for all the different fittings and small parts so they stay organized.
I am having trouble coming up with a good layout because of the V front. I looked at doing angled shelves on each side or going straight across and making it deep in the middle but that doesn't seem like it will work well.
I have a lot of 4'x4'x1/2" plywood that I will probably make most of the shelving out of.
Does anyone have anything similar or have suggestions?
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2018, 07:01:06 PM »

Will be watching- have pondered setups a lot.  we work off a tool truck but there's never enough bins/shelves. But it's very mobile, 4WD, and it works.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 07:50:51 PM »

My job trailer is also a 6x12 and I outgrew it real fast- will be picking up a 7x14 tandem axle hopefully this winter when stuff cools down a bit and I have some time to switch over. The way I have mine setup currently is a 42" wide shelf in the center up front (round nose) with a cubby on the passenger side for easy access to my hand tools and such from the side door. Rest of the passenger side is hooks for ladders and rolls of tubing, with floor space for air compressor, glycol jugs, boxes, etc. Driver side is a jigsaw puzzle of homemade shelving; top is a horseshoe for 10ft sticks of pipe, then underneath I built 6" slots slightly tilted toward the exterior wall for drill/impact kit, porta-band, pecker saw, hammer drill, solder kit, and socket set. Next to that is the same tilted slots, but full of those Stanley fitting boxes. Behind that is a 6ft long slot up top (under the pipe rack) for shorter lengths of pipe and allthread, unistrut, etc. 6ft space under that to the floor for generator, drawer organizer, chain vise/tri-stand, acetylene torch, and whatever happens to land in there. I'm pretty happy with it, but the 7x14 will have a V front like yours and I intend to build a flush shelf all the way across with maybe 4 or 5 tiers for heat exchangers, pumps, mixing valves, and the like. Bigger parts like that which don't fit on a regular shelf. Might try to incorporate a large drawer organizer in the center of the V for extra fittings and whatnot that don't fit nicely in my fitting boxes. I can get you a pic if you want, I am going to reuse my driver side assembly in the next rig as I do really like it
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2018, 08:25:55 PM »

I have a 6x10 I picked up at a retirement sale.

Left side has a 4 foot tall, 8 foot long row of cubby holes. Bottom is set up more for holding core bits, flat plates, and other large items.

Mine has a rounded nose though and plan on more shelves with a worktop with a small vice for the front.

I still need to get my press brake/shear/roller combo on the right side.

Core drill motors goes on the left side with other large items, core drill stand on right behind the shear.

I thought about a 6x12 or even larger, but wanted to stay small enough the wife’s Jeep Liberty could pull it in a pinch without issue.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 09:50:57 PM »

Yes, pics would help. I don't need as much equipment as you have so this trailer should be plenty big enough.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2018, 11:24:36 AM »

Trailer by Marty Lappin, on Flickr



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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2018, 09:00:57 PM »

I just got home from a wall hung NG install and heading out in the morning for a 4000 sq ft radiant floor so mine is a pretty big disaster at the moment but if I get it cleaned up and organized a bit I'll get you a pic or 3 tomorrow
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 02:09:49 PM »

I just started slapping stuff together. If it doesn't work out then I can just change it later. I am kind of wishing I got a trailer with a flat front. The angles are a real pain to deal with and they aren't the same on each side. The little flat piece in the center front is off square by an inch.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2018, 02:15:32 PM »

The angles are a real pain to deal with and they aren't the same on each side. The little flat piece in the center front is off square by an inch.

Well of course they are.

Mine has the rounded front, I’m gonna take a large piece of cardboard to cut a pattern out of.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2018, 06:59:34 PM »

Got the press brake/shear/roller on a stand today and in the trailer. Short stuff leave it fastened to the wall, roll it out for long stuff.


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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2018, 06:05:19 PM »

Sorry I'm late. Had a busy week, finally got time to organize some of my crap and snap a few pics. Gotta go fill glycol and pipe the intake/vent of the wall hung I piped last Friday after work tomorrow
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2018, 10:49:05 AM »

How does the ramp door work out for you? I wanted to get swinging doors but no one has any in stock with a 6'6" ceiling.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2018, 11:04:03 AM »

Here are a couple more pics. I think I will wait to but bins in the center section till I see what I want to put there.
I built the set on the right first and it was a little tight getting stuff out of the slots so I made the fronts a little shorter on the left side.
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2018, 12:48:30 PM »

Look at you and your fancy router! That shelving looks awesome, my next one I may have to reconsider from the drawer organizers and go with plywood bins like that. I love the ramp door actually. It can be a little long sometimes in tight spaces and uneven ground can be kinda screwy so as to not tweak the ramp, but I'd do it again. My issue with the barn doors is the constant in and out of wheeled items like air compressor and barrel cart, 2 wheeler, etc so I need a ramp one way or another
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Re: New trailer layout
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2018, 10:07:57 PM »

Router? I did it all with a table saw.

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