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Moped Trailer from Repurposed Materials

 
Arthur Wierzchos
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While living in Taiwan we loved visiting a local junkyard, where we could buy materials according to their weight for super cheap.  After a few visits we were able to score a used tricycle and an extra large dolly with no wheels on it.

So we thought about combining the two to make a moped trailer. A friend of ours had a welder and was able to help us out. He did the job in less than 20 minutes.  

This little trailer ended up being my primary method of transporting stuff to and from the beyond organic syntropic style taro field I was managing at the time.  

My wife got creative and made a short video about it:  

 
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Hi Arthur,
The video is showing up on my computer as "private". I would really love to see what you came up with, as I'm stalled on a bike trailer version. Having someone willing to weld would have been a great advantage!

Maybe you could upload some still pictures from the video, if you can't host the video a different way?
 
Douglas Alpenstock
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The video plays for me (Firefox in Debian Linux).

Nice little trailer!
 
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