Miller Trailblazer Custom Trailer

[wildfire]

Although our business is not a welding shop as such we have found the need to have more and more welding equipment on hand is growing every year. We started out as an automotive repair shop but got into machining and welding. We are brand loyal and as you can see Miller is the brand we like to use. The Miller product has never let me down so why try something else if this is working for me.

Anyway in February I built a cart for my new DX 200 which I called "Crazy Cart". I love that Dynasty. Now I just purchased a new Miller Trailblazer 302 and needed a trailer for it. It was one of those jobs that really didn't start out to be anything out of the ordinary but evolved into something else as I got into it.

The trailer features full suspension including shocks. It has a rear sliding compartment for tooling and such. There's also a flip up compartment in the rear for the smaller tools such as wheel wrenches, hammers....

The rear tailgate opens and as well as a small side door. The area where the side door is located is for either tanks or a new plasma cutter. I'm hoping to made a decision on that in the next week or so and got some cool ideas for that area.

I added two roll bars. These act as a place to hang the cables. Add some protection to the machine and I'll also use it as a metal rack or ladder rack. The roll bars gave me a place for my advertising signs as well. The only thing left to do with the roll bar is add the upper LED light bar. Where my main lights are lower I figured It would be safer to add the upper LED light bar as well and it with also be a signal light/brake and running light. I'll post pics of that when completed. All the lighting on the trailer is LED as well.

You'll notice if you look at the picture of the inside of the trailer there are tie downs. There in place for the factory Miller Trailblazer cover. Don't want that blowing off on the highway do we! Last is the license plate. Two things happen when your in poop. You either call 911 or your local welder :) Hope you all like it so far. Thanks for looking

[wildfire]

Some more pics of the trailer

[Black Wolf]

Paul,

Once again I am humbled by your creativity & craftsmanship. Another excellent project. You should be very proud. I'll pass it on to my Rock Huggers over here.

[aametalmaster]

Very nice and cool. Great job. I like the fenders and spare tire on the shop welding cart...Bob

[Handy560]

What more can you say. Hate to get that thing dirty :eek:

John

[wildfire]

Very nice and cool. Great job. I like the fenders and spare tire on the shop welding cart...Bob

Thanks guys. Glad you like it so far. Bob if you haven't seen the cart before I did post it on here. You can see it here. Thanks again. Paul

http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/communities/mboard/showthread.php?t=2654&highlight=crazy+cart

[admweld]

That looks cool.Give that to me for a day and it would be ruined i play in the dirt and rock way much to show up with that unit,my guys would laugh though.:rolleyes:

[weldone]

All I can say is outstanding:D
Functional,and sleek and most of all ..it's a MILLER:D:D
They would have a hard time topping that one:cool:

[Miller John]

That is a GREAT looking trailer. Nice Job!

[batman]

all you need now is some curb feelers, ha ha, i'm just kidding, trailer looks fantastic, great craftsmanship,,,,,,,,,,,,B,,,,,,,,,,,

[Ugly Truck Nut]

Nice looking trailer.

[wildfire]

Had a few guys ask me where I got the Miller tire cover. It's actually just a plain black cover that I used here. I figured I'd show you how I did it. Made a stencil. cleaned the vinyl cover down with rubbing alcohol. Applied stencil and paper. Used vinyl paint. Wait 15 minutes to dry and remove stencil and paper and you got yourself a hard to find Miller tire cover.

[BDJ]

Excellent job on the trailer, I remember the cart great job on it too. You have talent my friend

[Burninrod]

Nice job! I'm not usually a fan of the welding trailer concept but your trailer almost changes my mind :cool:

Very nice.

[starweld]

This is one of the nicest ive seen. Most customers appreciate quality, but others just care about price. Keep up the good work.

[wildfire]

Thanks guys for you great comments and I'm happy to know you folks like what I've done here. I've been receiving a few emails asking how I did the sliding rear drawer so I attached a few pictures of it for you to see. The sliding drawer works off two heavy duty ball bearing tracks. Much the same as you would see on a high end tool box. It works very smooth and is very strong. Have a look. Thanks

[Portable Welder]

I too did a fancy cart fot my Dynasty 300 DX, painted it blue with 4 hooks for the cables, shelf on the top, crane hook and 8 spots for my rod tubes.

I thought mine was over kill untill I saw yours, nice job.

As far as trailers I did one for an old Miller big 40 years ago with the miller stickers, but I diddnt see any tanks mounts on your trailer.

However very nice job, you need to rent yours out to the miller road show guys.

[wildfire]

Thanks Portable. Sounds like you have some nice welding gear there. As for the tanks or the lack of them on my trailer. If you look at picture T5 you'll see there's a place there for tanks or a new Miller Plazma. I mentioed this in my opening write up but I'm only now getting around to doing that this week and I'm leaning towards the new plazma to place there. Anyone have any advise on what "Miller" plazma I should go with that would work well with the new Trailerblazer? As always you comments and suggestions are always appreciated.

[67vw]

That is a very nice looking trailer. I like the cart too.

[welderman23]

awesome job!:eek::D you must have a good amount of time just planning that thing

[HMW]

Can't really add anything, excellant job. I too think people do better work when they have nice equipment. Not always, but to me indicates they care about what they do:D

[Broccoli1]

Anyone have any advise on what "Miller" plazma I should go with that would work well with the new Trailerblazer? As always you comments and suggestions are always appreciated.

Looks like the Spectrum 625 is a good match:)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb122/EdConley/MillerChart.jpg

[weldr123]

Very nice and professionally done!

[p.denys]

Great job. i love all the kinda hidden storage areas

[wildfire]

Thanks guys for your comments. I realized shortly after I built the trailer that although I like where I placed the rear lights it created a problem. I built and installed the roll bars and put my company logo on it and people would want to get so close to the rear of the trailer to view it I was afraid I would get rear ended so I installed a LED light bar up on the roll bar to try and prevent that from happening. I installed a picture and a video of how it works. Thanks again


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xl6t6_UNpA

[HMW]

LOL,:D Thats cool. Very creative

[neoslim22]

wow, did you just do a wax job on that tb 302?

[Bert]

wildfire, had to add my EXCELLENT job in there!!! Lights work REALLY REALLY nice, but with all the lights off, I'd put a couple of large reflectors on the diamond plate for added insurance....
great job dude!!!!!!!!:)

[Portable Welder]

If your going for show the plazma cutter is pretty cool but if your going to actually work it then I would put torches on because of the wide range of stuff the torched do.

You could put a plazma that has an on board compressor but they dont cut really thick stuff compared to what torches will do.

If you already have a compressor on your truck to run say the 2050 plazma then your ok.

[wildfire]

Thanks guys for your advice and comments. I took the rig out to a local RV park the other day to do some welding for a customer and the thing actually drew a crowd. folks taking pictures and asking lots of question. One guy said he's going to get me to build him a custom trailer. Funny how things happen :laugh:

Anyway the other day our steel supplier dropped by with a sheet of 4X8 1/4 plate. Man you should have seen the wife trying to get that off the truck :rolleyes: Anyway I decided to look for an old used forklift and I found one. Don't laugh, I didn't pay much for it. runs like a clock but I got some work to do on it before I'm happy with it. I think I may put a custom spin on the thing :blob2: