The coffee truck, Solid Ground Coffee, went through some little changes. I mixed paint to get a darker color brown on the outside, and made the orange trip more red. My daughter in law painted one of the signs for me, the fancier one by the large walk up window, and I painted the others. All painted on old fence boards and screwed into place.
In the interior I put up corner support hurricane brace type things to ensure solidity.
I embarked on this coffee truck business the first week of October in 2016. It was a hit (at first) and I was going to the nearest town, 15 miles away, every day almost, usually taking off Sundays. After a couple weeks the trailer itself began breaking!!! welds coming apart and axle was breaking!! Ugh. My husband, also self employed, a jeweler, fortunately came home from a show with enough money we could buy a new flatbed. It was quite the challenge to get the old trailer parts off of the coffee truck and pulley the coffee truck onto the new flatbed!!! We did some interesting attachments LOL. They were my idea. Then a friend of ours did some additional welding for us.
The coffee business has dwindled significantly because new things only seem romantic for a bit? But I still head out with this, at the least, every Saturday to the Gallup NM flea market where many people from around the country take pictures and post to the internet somewhere!! I can safely say, however that I have likely put over 7,000 miles on this coffee truck and not one thing is out of place or weakened in terms of my build!!! Things always go flying while I drive it down the road but that is another issue!!
Oh there was a few times when that door you see came flying open, to the point we made a plywood one facing the other direction as the trailer door hinges busted! And, the trailer has maintained its integrity despite me not checking to make sure husband actually latched the hitch (3-4 times?), resulting in trailer coming off hitch and dragging on the highway! Once the coupler broke!! Still my build is intact! And Yes, this build was all me. The only time I asked for help was lifting roof up, holding a wall to be screwed in, or otherwise holding things. Ok occasionally I could not seem to get a screw in or a hole drilled through metal so hubby used his strength LOL.
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