4x8 trailer walls

[sciphi]

I'm considering building a Harbor Freight 4x8 trailer to help with moving, carting around household items along with occasional messy things like mulch, and to take on an occasional vacation. I get the basics of how to build the trailer from the kit and re-pack the bearings before first use, but am unsure how to make walls for the thing. All the build threads and how-to's I've run across so far have detailed how to build the trailer itself, but not equip it with walls. Any advice or how-to's would be great!

 

[supton]

I have one. I got a sheet of some sort of osb that the lumber place swore would last ten years; it would have, but sitting snow and water means it is going soft after seven years.

I used pressure treat 2x4 for the stakes. I made the mistake of putting the rails on the inside; that takes up too much space. I used lots of eye hooks for tiedowns, but those are easily added. Note, you are supposed to use stainless bolts in pressure treat, I used zinc and they are rusting nicely. Then again, with half inch shanks they will last as long as the trailer, as it rusts quickly.

I did not put walls on mine, but I used some scrap plywood to make a skirt on the inside. The trailer will never take much more than six inches of dirt or brick, so why make a wind load? If I needed walls though I would just tack to the stakes.

Oh, those bearings are metric and stupid expensive unless if order thro HF. And check the lugs, the wheels are likely not tight on the hubs. I didn't and wound up replacing the studs, because I was stupid and didn't think to re torque.

 

[supton]

I went to look, but it is piled high with snow, sorry. I used like half inch hardware, carriage bolts, to hold it all together. Eyeballed it. The skirt is held in with drywall screws, nothing fancy.

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I used some asp latches for the gate, four if them, with some pins to hold in place.

 

[sciphi]

Thanks! SS hardware and pressure-treated lumber. It also sounds like getting a few sheets of 1/2" OSB and some 2x4's for the walls is the way to go. I was also thinking that I wouldn't need walls higher than 24" at the most. The items I'd need to transport are generally 18" or less high, such as the massive number of Rubbermaid storage totes I will be moving everything in.