A friend who is having severe health problems asked if I wanted his M100 trailer. He knows I've wanted it for a long time. His backyard was overgrown with blackberries. My son Sean and I hacked out the blackberries holding the trailer hostage, then cut the others that prevented him from getting into the backyard. We finally got the yard cleared so we could get the trailer out, and he could get around. We decided to heap the blackberries in the trailer and give it a test run from Portland to my mother-in-law's just beyond Sandy, were we could put them on a logging slash pile for burning.
The trailer trailed fine at highway speeds. Hubs were cool to the touch. This was also the first test of my rotating pintle assembly I installed on my FJ40 rear bumper, which I posted about a few months back on the FJ40 board. Clearance on sharp right turns is tight to the 1250x16 spare tire. Sharp right turns with a lot of articulation may be an issue. The lunette assembly really needs to be a foot further out.
Despite the looks, the tires need replacing. There is surface rust in the bed, but there isn't any rust through. However, someone pickaxed some holes in the trailer bed. Most are small, but there is a large one, which is quite noticable if you look just past the lopers laying in the bed in the first pic. Fortunately, most have the displaced metal intact, so we can hammer it back into position and weld them up. The lights are missing and the wiring harness is toast. He has a pile of military rebuilt light assemblies, so we have a couple to install. I had magnetic lights on the trailer, but I had just taken them off when the night pics were made.
The trailer nose is slightly in the air. The Land Cruiser has a 4" lift. I may have to do a spring over axle conversion or make extended shackles.
Plans are to make a camping trailer out of it, and store tents, stoves, whatever, ready to roll. It will need some sort of a lid.
I also have a beater Bantam civilian jeep trailer that we'll use as a utility trailer. It's lacking a hitch, and needs a lot of work. We decided a long time ago to not use it for camping.
The trailer trailed fine at highway speeds. Hubs were cool to the touch. This was also the first test of my rotating pintle assembly I installed on my FJ40 rear bumper, which I posted about a few months back on the FJ40 board. Clearance on sharp right turns is tight to the 1250x16 spare tire. Sharp right turns with a lot of articulation may be an issue. The lunette assembly really needs to be a foot further out.
Despite the looks, the tires need replacing. There is surface rust in the bed, but there isn't any rust through. However, someone pickaxed some holes in the trailer bed. Most are small, but there is a large one, which is quite noticable if you look just past the lopers laying in the bed in the first pic. Fortunately, most have the displaced metal intact, so we can hammer it back into position and weld them up. The lights are missing and the wiring harness is toast. He has a pile of military rebuilt light assemblies, so we have a couple to install. I had magnetic lights on the trailer, but I had just taken them off when the night pics were made.
The trailer nose is slightly in the air. The Land Cruiser has a 4" lift. I may have to do a spring over axle conversion or make extended shackles.
Plans are to make a camping trailer out of it, and store tents, stoves, whatever, ready to roll. It will need some sort of a lid.
I also have a beater Bantam civilian jeep trailer that we'll use as a utility trailer. It's lacking a hitch, and needs a lot of work. We decided a long time ago to not use it for camping.
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You gotta love POs.
The other reason is that I went SOA with the trailer, so I'd like some taller tires to fill the wheel wells. 
