Hi Rod, sometimes I cut the angle iron on one side only and on the other side where it is too long on the side will cut that piece part way through and then bend to follow along the side rail and then weld, the first part you would take a "V" shaped piece completely out of the material. Normally this should handle the weight of a tandem trailer, if you are concerned for the weight, you can get a piece of 2 x 2 square tubing thick side wall to go through the center and run back long enough to pick up the first two cross members. I usually have the tow bar 42" and then if you are using the 2 x 2 sq. tubing that would 66". Beware if you are purchasing thick wall 2" sq.tubing it is really expensive. The reason that I am presently using 3" angle iron is a couple of years ago it was advertised in the paper and I purchased quite a few lengths it was designed for some type of warehouse shelving and for some unknown reason was rejected by the purchaser. With the price of steel today it is really not worth making trailers to sell, I do have enough steel to make a couple of more trailers. This past summer at a couple of auctions I purchased a couple of dropped axle's at a reasonable price, will work at these over the winter months. One more tidbit of advice quite often Princess Auto have these 7" metal cutting grinders for sale they work great for cutting steel and are usually under $40.00 . I do have one of those matal cutting saws, they don't work as good as the hand held "grinder". Cheers, Murray
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