Wayne Webb

I just bought this old travel trailer frame. It's 22x8. Planning to make a small 8x6 porch on the tongue end and dry-in the rest with a "barn" roof with a small loft. I will then pull it back in the woods to use as a getaway cabin. I have built a few buildings, including my house and place of business, but have never built anything on a trailer before. In my sketch, I have 2x4's laid crossways on the trailer, anchored to the outriggers, for floor joists. Why 2x4's? For weight and height considerations, and because it seems that is the way the floor might have originally been built. They only need to span about 5'9'' between those main I-beams and would be laid 16'' on center with 3/4'' plywood over that. If that's wrong I would like some input on that. Because I'm not aware of how the stresses of pulling this thing down the road (if I need to do that someday) would affect this. I'm also considering using pressure treated for the joists and plywood because we have carpenter bees here. Thanks

Thanks all, you have been most helpful. I will definitely be using some extra steel to connect the beams to the joists. This configuration will allow more room to move things under the beam/s. I will be storing materials like blocks of EPS foam up there, as well as keeping some of my stationary metal fabrication tools up there like a 50'' slip roll, 48'' box brake etc.

I'm planning to build an upper floor/mezzanine in my workshop. It will have 2x10x13 joists supported at one end by a stud wall and at the other by LVL beams. The beams will be 5.25''x9.5'' x 13' long. My question is, can the beams be connected via joist hangers or do I need to rest the ends of the joists on the beam? The reason being, joist hangers would give me more head room. But would the joist hanger design tend to pull loose from the load? Please see the attachment. Thanks!

We got a new Mini Aussie Shepherd, hoping we could train it to work sheep. Seemed super sweet, but when we worked sheep the dang thing kept going for their THROATS. The last straw was when it nipped my 5yo grand daughter on the face. It was just a scratch but I immediately had it put down. My grand daughter is an animal lover and was not mistreating the dog in any way. It just had a strong prey drive I guess.