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Off-road trailer

I know this is like a bigger tear drop, I was thinking of doing a small uhaul conversion.
Iceman. Will you do a YouTube video of the build. Seen a couple of trailers that put a pop up tent
 
A friend and I built an offroad frame for my popup using 1/8" thick 2"x3" box tube, 3/4ton truck leaf springs, and an inverted 4" 3500lb drop trailer axle with 5x4.5" light truck wheels and tires. It sits higher than my vehicles and will go anywhere my vehicles can go into any forest service road or trail.

According to the buddy that helped me build mine, the problem with most of the lifted campers these days is the frame material is very thin. You are quite likely to bend it if you have to winch it out of a tough spot. The manufacturers put taller springs and tires on them but didn't seem to consider the added stress of offroad travel and recovery.

It may not matter much to most people, but if, like me, you want to get up in the hills and away from the crowds, these cheaply built all-terrain campers may not hold up very long.
 
Any pictures of the popup?? Thanks for pointing out the manufacturer role. I really didn’t consider that role that much, but I was thinking about doing a cargo trailer conversion first. But then saw that and figured ehh why not, just get a completed one. Since I probably will use maybe 2x a year, and not go super rough/rock climbing. Idk
 
having built camp trailers, I will never buy a commercially made one. I did trim work, we had the trailers hooked to power, staple, staple, staple *power goes out*, flip the breaker, staple, staple, staple. Company policy is to not pull the staples out of the wires because it leaves a hole in the trim.
 
I am considering using my orphaned chalet for the build, it already has the pop-up.
It will be a while before my build gets far enough to document. But I am hoping it will be ready for next summer
 
If you search, you'll see what a couple members have made in the past.

What's Brent's handle? Reddog or something @
 
OGB
BeardedB
NuB

3 of us at Blazer Bash. Had to call local government to see if it was ok, never seen so many in one place. Lol
 
ErnS said:
Any pictures of the popup?? Thanks for pointing out the manufacturer role. I really didn’t consider that role that much, but I was thinking about doing a cargo trailer conversion first. But then saw that and figured ehh why not, just get a completed one. Since I probably will use maybe 2x a year, and not go super rough/rock climbing. Idk
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There's a camper builder in Alaska called Cache Camper Mfg, they have a YouTube channel and he goes over a lot of really cool ways they build campers to actually survive and not just be cheap to build pieces of crap.
 
K85 Octane said:
OGB
BeardedB
NuB

3 of us at Blazer Bash. Had to call local government to see if it was ok, never seen so many in one place. Lol
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Hi B3

I'm starting to look a campers that can go from my 82 to the 2024 GMC 2500 AT4X daily.
 
Another consideration would be the tounge hitch.
Needs to rotate and more up and down.

Example
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