Restoring a tin tent trailer, part 2, starting the work

In My first post of this series, I showed you the trailer and basically what condition it was in when I got it. You can read that post here.
https://www.palnet.io/travel-trailer/@amberyooper/restoring-a-tin-tent-trailer-part-1-i-got-it-home-now-what

In this post, I'll show you what it looked like after I got it cleaned out inside and started to work on it.
The first thing I had to do was clean out all of the stuff that was inside the trailer when I got it. All of the plywood paneling that had been on the interior walls had been removed from the walls, but they left it stacked inside the trailer. That had to be carried out first. There was only 1 cabinet in the trailer when I got it, and it was loose and movable. I left it in to use as a table top to put stuff like tools on while I'm working in the trailer.

Lets take a look at the inside of the trailer with most of the stuff removed. This is the back end, where most of the work needs to be done.

After looking at the way this area was put together, I decided that I needed to remove the piece of floor plywood in the back to see what what was under it.

As you can see here, the original steel frame doesn't extend to the end of the trailer, which explains why these old trailers don't have a back bumper.

The previous owners didn't do a very good job on the back corners when they rebuilt the floor. They just left the crappy half rotten wood in and built around it.

After pulling the new 2X4 pieces out of the back corners, this is what I had to deal with.

I pulled all of that wood out of the space, which included cutting the 2 carriage bolts that were holding the wood to the angle iron of the back frame support. I propped up the corner of the side wall so that it wouldn't sag while I was replacing the wood.

I found a piece of treated 2X6 that I had available and cut it to length to fit more or less properly in the space where the old wood was, and test fitted it.

Once I got the 2X6 fitted the way I wanted it. I marked and drilled the hole through it for the new carriage bolt, and mounted it in place. I used angle brackets to fasten the wall structure to the 2X6.

That took care of the basic structural support for one side of the back end. In the next post in this series, I continue the work on the other side.

That's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out, eh!