Son came up with a "mobile home mover" trailer 2 years ago... It was 70 ft long, two 12 inch I beams on each side.. They were only  1/8 inch material, but with  adequate floor and bracing they had good load capacity after i cut into two 35 ft bridges with some  angle iron cross braces...... I doubt this frame is anywhere near that construction... Time will tell.

I don't know what it was made out of then, but I was told sometime back that drywall helps the soil.  Like lime or calcium.  You may be able to take it out in the field and disk it in!

The tin on the outside was aluminum a while back.  That was back in the 70s and 80s and probably prior to that.  I don't know what they used when yours was built, but it may be a nice little profit. 

studs were on 16 inch centers.. they put a drop of glue every foot or so on the stud, then STAPLE at the edges and put a thin wood trim strip over the joints...NO DRYWALL MUD... most of the staples stayed in the stud and the drywall just popped off... but i do need to check for and left over staples !!

THANKS for the idea !

as a core!

up here is COSTS you money to haul 'travel trailers' to the yard, if not totally gutted. Not any 'real' steel.

I agree 'new' drywall( cutoffs, no paint) are GREAT in the garden ! Broke tons of it into +-foot square size, tossed like frisbees all over garden in fall after plowing, let Mother Nature do her thing, come Spring, plow/till and all the veggies were happy !

Since her garden will be <10% the size next year, I won't need to do that anymore...

  Hey Steve,,wishin you was closer,,I'd take them sheets of paneling off your hands in a heart beat. I've been looking for some paneling for the longest for a inside rebuild of the 5th wheel. NOBODY carries the 1/8" wood simulated paneling like was so popular back in the day. Some of the stuff I did find is,,,,,,,,$36 per sheeet!!! DANG,,I may go with 3/8" sheet rock as all I want to do is repair and sell,,,no more.

 There used to be a heck of a market for that paneling,,,can't figure what happened,,??

Also have a lead on selling 6 interior hollow doors with hinges and handles for $40.

Im not trying to get rich, just trying to get rid of stuff without burning or dumpster !

OK, i read your post from a few days ago... Your doing about the same as i am.. Did you take down the interior studs or just the drywall ?  I am taking down all studs and will put a diagonal brace from floor to back wall every 20 ft to keep the building from falling over as i remove interior.

Right now its a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 1/2 kitchen with no electrical !! and a 45 ft long EMPTY STORAGE ROOM ! 

My SCRAPPER (me) so far has made $100. this week selling the "good stuff" ! 

How many hours did it take you to "make" your $100 ??

Reminds me of my grandfather, found a go-cart in the field, outta gas.  He was discing the field.  Ever see what a D-19, pulling a 14' Kewaunee disc harrow can do to a go-cart?

Folded it up pretty good, with lotsa sharp edges!

   Your looking from the opposite end of the dumpster.   Not the biggest items to haul off but it cost money to get it into the landfill. It was a waste not want not , doing something nice for the person wanting it. He is building his karma account up. 

Dumpster is $500 rent.. NOPE... I have PAID someone to do my work less than 5 times in the past 50 years. Not about to start now...

Got an empty shell with a bathroom on one end right now.  Plenty of goodies to sell, and a few to keep.. Some will give away. Had a large bon fire this am for the couch and a bunch of the wood trim !!

Better than setting around drinking beer all day !! 

Still have numbers seven and eight 40 gallon trash bags going out from shop Wednesday.  JUST Trash in those, will burn all the paper and wood scraps.

 Well,,I'm now lookin forward to readin both of youse guys escapades on demolition of those trailers,,,,,,NOT,,,, that I'm ever gonna go into that hobby,,mind you,,, but interestin readin how you both kinda arrive at similar solutions at same time,,,,,,are ya'll kin or,,,????

Almost done with interior wall removal.  Drywall is broken up and stacked in 8 piles. Cleaned up the 2 x 3 and 2 x 4 studs for "repurpose".. Have about 100 total.. 60 in the truck.

Left 6 ft section of two interior walls and added diagonal brace for support. Still have frig and stove setting in the way. Going to put things toward the center of room and start removal of drywall on exterior walls by Christmas.... Have drywall stacked in 8 piles waist high. Waiting for ground to freeze to haul out to corn field and spread.

Loading per foot really depends on what the SPAN is... If  your saying 200# per foot and i can spread the load out over 5 feet, then that is 1000# ...... Could get a 4 wheeler over that............ again, depends on the span  20 ft is a lot easier than 40 ft or 70 ft.

Now what to do with the ceiling... 3/8 drywall with 6 inches blown in insulation above that. Should make a real mess... Read  "on line" not to put that on the field as it has fire retard chemicals in it...  Might take a small portion tomorrow and see if it will BURN ?? in a hot fire.    

Sold off most of the interior sink, toilet, hot air grates, electrical box, plugs, gas line for a few dollars just to keep it out of the dumpster.. Burning the trim , shelves, drawer to keep them out of the dumpster.. Only the drape rods, nails hardware goes into dumpster....

Sold 500 gallon propane tank for $500. in 24 hours ! .... trying to sell wall fiberglass insulation now in 7 ft batts. 

gee, and I passed on a free 15' tandem 'fryshack' trailer today....

springs were shot, dexter hubs, NO brakes,pintle hitch,3 bald flat tires

would have made a nice storage shed or 'tiny' house though.....

but.. no where to park it here....

there was also a free 'seacan'...

oh well...

Neighbor got a free 16x60 trailer house... when it was moved the first time, it had 3 axels under it and then were taken off.  So the fellow gave it to the neighbor. They put two axels under it, all they had, and hooked on to it with a 4wheel drive tractor and were booging down the road when one rim pealed off. then another tire blew, then anoterrim an tire vame off and got in front of rear axel and that ripped off and the last tire blew and cutting the highway up and axel went into the blacktop and... there they sat on the road. hitch had started to tear off. they tried to back it up and they bent more stuff up. finslly they got a payloader to push the trailerhouse off the road. they called the county sheriff dept. and said that it was against the law to move mobile homes with farm tractors now, gotta be a licensed mover now.  But the sheriff's dept wasn't going to fine them this time sinceit is new law... Highway deptartmen wasn't as kind, they figured 10,000 for repair of road damage...

 After using pay loader, the frame was all buckled and damaged and hitch needed to be welded back on. So it was junk.  They looked for somebody to take care of it so, they found a fellow that would demo it for 3000... he got two big dumpsters in and used a track hoe and bobcat and crushed that whole building down and stuffed into those two dumpsters.  he tore the frame out and cut it up an stuffed that in his dump truck box. In 5 hours he disposed of the mobile home.  He said the thing should have had 4 axels under it, cuzz there was a roof on top of the old roof made of 2x4's, plywood and shingles.  The roof would have made for a good woodshed or some machinery if set up on poles.

 Well that was an expesive free tailer....

Took the last load of wall drywall to the Deer Corn Field today. ... Cleaned up  on one end of the trailer and then attacked the ceiling.. Made something like a crow bar with a longer leg.. stick thru the dry walll and PULL DOWN... Did an area 14 ft wide and 10 ft long ( rafters on 2 ft centers... Got a plastic 40 gallon trash can and line with a 42 gallon plastic bag... shovel the  "blown in" insulation into the bag with a snow shovel... tie off and remove.. Pack it good and i get about 14' x 4 ' of insulation in one bag... will try to sell for $2 bag or give away......... OH... and its shredded fiber glass, not  paper.

About a week and will have the insulation and ceiling drywall all off... More drywall to dispose of !! ........ got a couple guys that are looking at the wall and ceiling insulation to do their garage... HOPE !

I am 30% into pulling down the ceiling drywall and bagging up the blown in fiberglass insulation above it........ wondering how long the weather will cooperate.

Closeup of brace wall below... one 20 ft from each end... 70 ft trailer.

Closeup of roof rafters made of 2 x 2... Vaulted ceiling... rafter about 12 inches tall at center. On 24 inch centers.... 14 ft span !!

Wall studs are 2 x 6. Plan to save all of them and the outside tin ( 3 ft wide sections). I was going to strip the roof, then windows off walls, then take tin off walls, then tip over the building and disassemble the studs and rafters..

Plan "B" is to be not so committed..  THAD said to cut the roof into 4 ft widths between the rafters, take out screws along the wall, and slide off a SECTION 4 x 14 ft onto the ground.  My plan is to cut 4 sections 4 ft wide from the INSIDE and slide off to open a section 16 ft  long starting at the back wall..then take off the tin on the end wall. Then cut out 4-5 rafters, cut top plate and tip the END wall over onto the floor... Knock off the studs and keep, burn the top and bottom plate and rafters... 

Then cut backwall at window, remove the wall tin and tip 10 ft of wall onto the floor and disassemble.. etc.... Once i have 16- 20 ft GONE i will see what the weather is like and do  another 20 ft of front or rear wall as time permits..

This allows me to keep the opposite end of the trailer , under roof and store some of the material i have removed or trying to sell.. And if it snows or rains, i am not 100% committed !!.

Look from the outside... #1 will come down first.. End wall, then front and back.