Best constructed travel trailer
I know I'm opening a can of worms here, but, I'm in the market for a new trailer about 20 to 24 feet in length and am having trouble determining who makes the best constructed TT's. I want something ...
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RobertRyan wrote:
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The NASH Unit and the Outdoor RV are pretty similar in construction to most basic Caravans in Australia. The difference is you can have a fairly sophisticated suspension setup on even basic ones as an option., still not OFF ROAD but more capable on dirt and gravel. The NASH/Outdoor RV's are DIRT road units, OFF ROAD is anther leap entirely.
OK, understand your definitions now. "Off-road" to me usually means some un-paved logging/mining road, not some jeep track. And the only extreme off-road trailers I've seen up here are very small, often tent, campers, that can be hauled by jeeps on those tracks.
So what would you do to a smallish Nash to make it truly off-road in an Aussie sense? Avoid the pull-out models, I suppose. Lift the axle, bigger wheels?
A problem might be axle placement along the chassis. The one in the video had the axle placed in the middle of the chassis: great for getting through peaks and dips, but not so good for highway as the tongue weight is low causing sway. Not a common placement in N.A.
And some of those aussie trailers had relatively short frames, but with the body shell extending up and away behind the frame, giving better clearance for that length of body, more interior space for that length of frame.
But for the lower price of a mass-produced trailer, maybe some compromises are ok.
