Good find Bud. If you were my neibours I would sandblast and prime it for you .

I got one from my neighbor who just left it out for trash. catch is the tounge is not very strong. It bent when i used it to haul rocks\sand.

Right off the bat I have to put tires on it - they're both dry-rotted and one has a hole too big for Slime to plug. They're 16x6.5-8. Hubs look good - grease fittings had never been used so I couldn't resist pumping some in. Stupid, because now I have to deal with it when I take the wheels in to get the tires.

I looked at putting narrow wheelbarrow wheels on it but realized the wide tire are there to protect the lawn when the trailer is loaded with something heavy. The same reason a riding mower has wide tires.

I have had a couple of them and did not care for them to much.

Tongue bends easily, The plates that support the beds bend easily and the tail gate end of the sides bends easily..

I fixed the tongue by bolting a piece of 1/4" 2x2 on the under side and installed a 1 7/8" coupler. (all of my toys have 1 7/8" balls installed now days).

Welded angle from the corners down to the tongue. Did away with the flexing.

Did away with the dump latch and welded the supports solid to the tongue.

Drilled the bed rail and stuck a 1/4" bolts up through the rail with a couple of washers and nut so that they stuck up just in front of the tail gate. Then drilled a piece of flat bar that slipped over the bolts held in place with nuts. Once the bar was in place you could still remove the tailgate.

The thing I hated most about them. Easy to tip over.

Bought a couple of Rubbermaid trailers and after a few modifications to the tongue and the bed sides I like them a lot. Even loaded with firewood I have never tipped one over on any terrain.. Only draw back to them is their low ground clearance.

Just received new tires today. Now I'll remove the old ones, clean/paint the wheels and get them mounted. I decided to paint it to match the mower, black with light grey wheels. There will be some straightening, scraping and wire-brushing along with a phosphoric acid bath. I think I will post a 'before' picture tomorrow - looks pretty sad now.