Brandon - 1/2/2026 17:26

I bought a 30 year old hydraulic detach at an auction site unseen a couple years ago. I intended to sell my old fixed neck lowboy but found out this detach gets hung up too easy in a lot of our areas, so I kept the old one and haven’t used the detach much. Now that I have a big excavator, I need it. It works fine and seems structurally ok, but it’s seen its share of salty roads. I paid $15K for it. Has anyone hired a full sandblast and paint job lately on a similar trailer? I’m curious what it might cost me to turn this into a nicer outfit. Tires are decent. I’d pull the floor myself and obviously put a new floor on it after painting.

Is it even worth doing? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was close to $10k. There’s a lot of frame and other structure here compared to a hopper bottom or dump trailer. This is a tandem axle 35t Eager Beaver.