I have a 26 TT truck that came with the remnants of a 26 logging trailer manufactured by Nabors Trailers here in Louisiana. I believe I have all the metal parts but the wood spoke wheels are in terrible shape. The spokes are much heavier even than the rear wheels of the TT. My question is how would I find replacement spokes or would it even be possible?
Clay
Are they solid rubber type with wood falloe.
If so you may need to have the amish gent. make you new ones.
Bob
I would say look up one of the old threads about respoking regular wood wheels and find the name of one of the recommended wheelwrights and give them a call. They probably can rebuild any wheel.
Herb
Here is one older post with names of wheel wrights, Stuzman's does these things, all size wood spokes, even cannon carriage wheels.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/294420.html
Rims are standard looking 20" metal. Big difference is the hubs are 3 1/2" dia compared to the TTs ~2 3/8" and the hub plate is 9" instead of the TTs 7". That should make the trailer spokes 2" shorter. Spoke dia is considerably larger too. I guess a non-standard wheel rebuild could get pretty pricey?
Clay
There's a fellow out here that did my rear wheels for my snowmolile,there TT centers and spokes with car 3 X 3.5 ( steel falloe ) rims
and they were very reasonable, not very much more than standard wheels. It's worth getting a price from them.
Bob
Calimer's Wheel Shop:
http://www.calimerswheelshop.com/
He is a third generation wheel wright. Both he and his father worked on two sets of early electric car wheels for my father.
One set involved tightening up the metal rim and installing hard rubber tires.
The other set involved reproducing felloes and spokes for two wheels and tightening the metal rims and installing hard rubber tires for all four wheels.