Tricycle Converted To Trailer Dolly

Tricycle Converted To Trailer Dolly Edward Shaw turned an old tricycle into a lightweight trailer dolly He uses it to pull a small 2-wheeled trailer behind his garden tractor A ball hitch is attached to the tricycle’s seat “I own a 1-acre lot but we have a homeowner’s association so I can’t keep the trailer on my driveway ” says Shaw “With my homemade dolly I can drive the trailer into my back yard and out of sight behind a shed I could have used my car to pull the trailer into my back yard but I didn’t want to drive over the lawn and risk damaging our automatic sprinkler system And I didn’t want to spend the money for a commercial dolly or a ball hitch for the tractor I already had the tricycle which had a bad front wheel ” He removed the wheel fork and handlebars keeping a short metal yoke that connected the handlebars to the fork He also removed the drive axle which was connected to one of the pedal arms and uses it as a drawbar pin “A standard drawbar pin would have been too short and narrow to work with the yoke The pedal arm prevents the axle from falling through ” explains Shaw To install the ball hitch he drilled a hole through the plastic seat then inserted the ball and screwed a nut on underneath the seat “The ball hitch is screwed onto plastic not metal but it has enough holding power for what I need ” says Shaw “The empty trailer weighs 300 lbs but has a tongue weight of only about 20 lbs so there isn’t a lot of pressure on the ball I could probably reinforce the hitch somehow if I ever wanted to haul a load on the trailer ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Edward Shaw 2849 Singletree Cove Cedar Hill Texas 75104 ph 316 393-6294; big_ed075@hotmail com

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