Any home made car trailers here?

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Originally Posted by MrBeast

I am working on this trailer design right now. It is a 16' tilt deck.

As you can see from the tilted view the trailer on level ground can load a car with 4" ground clearance that has a distance of 14 1/16" from the centerline of the tire to the front of the car.

With 5" ground clearance you can have 18 1/16" from the wheel centerline to the front of the car.

The nice thing about this setup is that you can have a winch on the front of the deck, and use it to pull your vehicle up onto the trailer, this will be really handy if I am going to get a non runner.

Nice looking design.
Somethin to think about though. 14-1/16" from the centerline of the tire/wheel isn't much. Your average car tire is probably 26-28 inches tall. That puts your 4" ground clearance about 1-1/16 to 1/16 inch in front of the tire itself.
Of course the tire will start to "climb" the trailer quite a bit before it's centerline reaches the edge of the ramp/trailer.

A tiltbed would be sweet and a winch is a necessity IMO.
I've been consiring building myself a car trailer for a number of years now. Just never have gotten around to it.
I've got the winch, now I just need the remainder of the parts! Hahaha
Another advantage of building your own is ya don't have to come up with the big lump sum of money! Buy the steel and axles, lights, etc a little at a time.

I like the drawings. That's the way to plan out things! What software did ya use to make those?