Details, Details, and More Welding

Well today marks the completion of beefing up the trailer and correcting mistakes from the builder with a welder.

The winds here have been terrible with gusts reaching over 50 mph.  It has made work slow and made me have severe asthma attacks.  Arthur is amazing and pushed through the wind and rain.  They are such great folks and I can't say enough great things about their work and work ethic.

Arthur worked into the dark during one of the return trips.

Talk about lighting up a dark space, it's cool to watch them work at night.

Arthur snugged up the tongue and put in cross bars to make it bullet proof.

Arthur worked through the rain to finish the trailer.

The finished tongue!  Isn't that pretty?  Talk about a difference the basket will give us a bit more storage space too.

Reinforced corners and stabilizer jacks.  They extended the tongue back further and gave it additional welds to reinforce it.

The tongue box fits back beautifully and we have space underneath.

Painted with the reflective stickers in place.

The new stamped trailer ID tag in place that can't be painted over.  Crybaby painted over our original tag that came on the trailer.

During some downtime and with my husband being my arms I was able to finally complete our solar box.

Closed it can be used as a coffee table.

The lid slides out along with the 1/2 inch insulation to allow for solar charging.

The legs are removable so it can be stored flat.  I have to admit I've had the materials for a year but never the time.  I'm glad the solar panel is now out of the original cardboard box.  It feels so good to have this one done.

Here's my plus project.  I've been forced indoors quite a bit so I took the time to make the Blue Guppy a skirt.

I took a trip down to the fabric district about a year ago to pick up outdoor fabric and ended up buying the whole role...yes role not bolt.  It's a lot of fabric but I have more plans for it.  This was the easy start.

The skirt helps keep our gear we place under the trailer out of sight.  It gives it a more polished look.  These are some of the projects I wanted to work on when we got our trailer but had to put them on the back burner to fix all the issues we had with the trailer.  

I can't wait to work on more of them to really give the Guppy some unique personality.  Seeing how she's looking makes me want to camp.  

Well it's time to sign off here but not without giving you the welder's Facebook page address.  www.facebook.com/IFABMobile

Stay safe and happy camping.