HELP! I'm building a custom travel trailer.
Hi everyone, My name is Darla and I’m going to be building a small custom RV later this year to travel solo full time throughout the United States. Yup, I’m doin it! I would love to share my RV ...
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I'm going to throw in a further post here, and kindly take as intended to be constructive. It will probably come off sounding harsh and as though I am bashing....that is certainly not the intent.
First, from a housekeeping standpoint of the forum here, it might be useful if you were to consolidate your responses into one post back. Having endless posts back from you, saying "thanks for feedback" ( we understand....you really do appreciate the feedback )....and then replying to one persons thoughts is making this a very long thread indeed. We have not even laid a keel on this ship yet, and we're up to what...40 or so posts ? Folks are going to lose interest in following along if this gets crazy long.
Now for the part that is going to sound harsh. I don't think "you get it". Folks are coming back with solid suggestions, and your replies are coming back with comments like 15 foot tall RV's and $100,000 dollar sets of tires. And sorry, but when I see a artist rendering of a cargo trailer with six or seven steps up, I'm thinking this is not well thought out yet.
I would strongly recommend you sit down with someone who has an engineering background, and a good CAD program on their computer, and step thru some of this. And I don't mean Bubba down the street that has a buzz box and some scrap steel out behind the shed.... I mean someone who understands design, materials, and how to lay this out in a way that it can be correctly built, on a predicable budget.
Hope this helps, and hopefully you will take it the right way. A project like this could be fun and rewarding done right. Or it could be a lot of wasted time, money and poorly functioning if done wrong.
First, from a housekeeping standpoint of the forum here, it might be useful if you were to consolidate your responses into one post back. Having endless posts back from you, saying "thanks for feedback" ( we understand....you really do appreciate the feedback )....and then replying to one persons thoughts is making this a very long thread indeed. We have not even laid a keel on this ship yet, and we're up to what...40 or so posts ? Folks are going to lose interest in following along if this gets crazy long.
Now for the part that is going to sound harsh. I don't think "you get it". Folks are coming back with solid suggestions, and your replies are coming back with comments like 15 foot tall RV's and $100,000 dollar sets of tires. And sorry, but when I see a artist rendering of a cargo trailer with six or seven steps up, I'm thinking this is not well thought out yet.
I would strongly recommend you sit down with someone who has an engineering background, and a good CAD program on their computer, and step thru some of this. And I don't mean Bubba down the street that has a buzz box and some scrap steel out behind the shed.... I mean someone who understands design, materials, and how to lay this out in a way that it can be correctly built, on a predicable budget.
Hope this helps, and hopefully you will take it the right way. A project like this could be fun and rewarding done right. Or it could be a lot of wasted time, money and poorly functioning if done wrong.
