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| Went to look at an older Wilson trailer today. DH200? Anyway. Two rivets popped loose in the hopper slope, and allowed grain fines to get down in the side panels. The aluminum skin is corroded through both inside and outside. Inside not as bad. How major of a repair would this be? The rest of the trailer is pretty decent. Outside. Just between two ribs. 
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Rivet popped out on side slope. 
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Dalhart, Texas | I thought aluminum was the corrosion answer at least that is what the pro aluminum body Ford truck guys are saying. I have fixed some rust on a steel Wilson and it was a major deal. |
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Central ND | We had to replace an outer skin on a timpte a few years back, it was about $4000. Labor is a killer working on those trailers, be worse yet if you have to start replacing some of the vertical channels. |
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Tx | Keep looking for a different trailer. Repairing that right would be a major job. You'll need a huck gun to replace all the hucks. |
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deep SW On. | bkadds - 1/18/2015 18:15
I thought aluminum was the corrosion answer at least that is what the pro aluminum body Ford truck guys are saying. I have fixed some rust on a steel Wilson and it was a major deal.
We thought so too for hauling hogs ,we have an '07 Wilson Foreman and between salt & livestock acids the floor in areas has holes through it and Wilson dealer did fix it once in '11.....I don't know if they are using cheaper Aluminum now or not as we have a old '88 Wilson pot that pretty much has 0 corrosion & hardly ever washed out.... Wilson basically told us "sorry about your luck" |
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Leeds, North Dakota | Run away, there is bigger headaches involved, Scott. |
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Texas | I would run away because it probably has more interior damage than you can see. The trailer looks like it has hauled fertilizer and the product and dust has gotten inside the walls. As already stated, labor will leave you speechless after you open it up, and then there is no turning back. Find a clean trailer somewhere and pay a little bit more. Money well spent. |
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| Pofarmer - 1/18/2015 17:08
Went to look at an older Wilson trailer today. DH200? Anyway. Two rivets popped loose in the hopper slope, and allowed grain fines to get down in the side panels. The aluminum skin is corroded through both inside and outside. Inside not as bad. How major of a repair would this be? The rest of the trailer is pretty decent. Outside. Just between two ribs.
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Rivet popped out on side slope.
Without looking at the other posts, move along. That is trouble, with a capital "T". |
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| Never buy a truck or trailer from the north |
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| I had a trailer get laid over while we were running in calcium chloride. They should have totaled it. From experience you just as well put new posts, frame and inner and outer skin. What isn't showing rot yet will after you fix it.
The one we had was retired to moving product around the warehouse in a few years. Not too many years later it was so far gone I didn't figure it would support a load sitting still. |
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Almond Wisconsin | Corn dust didn't do that. Fertilizer and road salt did. RUN |
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Dearfield Co. | One thing you need to keep in mind is how wilson is constructed with the one piece skin on the out side-------more than likely it has a hole on the inside skin or it got spray from the tires behind one of the corrosion plates they put in the trailer to trap the crap that causes this. If the skin is like this more than likely the long members are full of rust as well as the cross beams in the nose. That trailer is out of service here in CO. and would end up costing more than its worth in repairs. I don't care for wilsons parts network because out side skin in pieces over a ft by a ft can sometimes need to wait on new cattle trailers to come so they can ship it inside . |
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Dearfield Co. | One thing you need to keep in mind is how wilson is constructed with the one piece skin on the out side-------more than likely it has a hole on the inside skin or it got spray from the tires behind one of the corrosion plates they put in the trailer to trap the crap that causes this. If the skin is like this more than likely the long members are full of rust as well as the cross beams in the nose. That trailer is out of service here in CO. and would end up costing more than its worth in repairs. I don't care for wilsons parts network because out side skin in pieces over a ft by a ft can sometimes need to wait on new cattle trailers to come so they can ship it inside .
should add take a shop mirror and look thru the small holes on the bottom of the rail if its a later trailer that has them along the length of the trailer with a light and a shop mirror and I would guess you will find more in the sides---------
don't know how the double post happened power fluctuated and must of sent it
Edited by a4t-1600 1/18/2015 19:40
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Wilson trailer corrosion repair, how serious?
