Off Road Aliner?

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Francesca Knowles wrote:

RobertRyan wrote:
That said the Aliner is a blacktop Campertrailer adapted for some dirt and minor Off Road use, the Trillum is a tiny Caravan, built for the blacktop.

My experience proves otherwise, but no matter...you're entitled to your opinion, Robert, even when it's wrong!

Francesca anyone can take a basically unsuitable blacktop Caravan down a dirt road slowly, does not make it an Off Road RV. As you have noticed your fibreglass unit is getting cracks, to be expected if not built for the use

Trillum Off Road
Noticed this on the web, basically you can do this with any small, well tiny fibreglass Caravan.Doing it at speed, another matter (smallest Caravan you can get here is roughly 14ft)
. A Campertrailer is roughly the same size , Off Road versions as RoyB has noticed are built like tanks

RobertRyan wrote:
That said the Aliner is a blacktop Campertrailer adapted for some dirt and minor Off Road use, the Trillum is a tiny Caravan, built for the blacktop.

My experience proves otherwise, but no matter...you're entitled to your opinion, Robert, even when it's wrong!

Francesca Knowles wrote:

RobertRyan wrote:


Correct, little Trailers like the Trillium would be useless here.

Now yer gettin' carried away, Robert. You always make Australia sound like some third world country! There are PLENTY of small trailers giving perfectly good service on Australian back roads. I'm sure there's a contingent of folks that want to ford rivers and climb mountainfaces etc., just like here. But they're likely the minority, also just like here.

As for my earlier question per the superiority of that Aussie Aliner for brutal off road use: even the mfr. makes no such claim, and the most adventurous thing its advids show it doing is trailin' down a dirt road behind a tug that looks much like my own. Link to page.

I will say that the PRICE is "special"- $36,000.00 for a folding

P.S.

My Trillium has held up very well over many miles of rottenroad- nothin' like going slow on washboard/dry stream beds etc. Although I did develop a mysterious crack in the gelcoat somewhere along the line last year. Easy repair, especially since it didn't penetrate the shell.

No Off Road Caravans(Avan Aliner is a Campertrailer) make a fairly sizeable proportion of the Caravan population. As I said and the Adventure pack on the Avan Aliner , makes it last longer on dirt roads and where you take your little Trillum, That said the Aliner is a blacktop Campertrailer adapted for some dirt and minor Off Road use, the Trillum is a tiny Caravan, built for the blacktop.

I just got back from BC and saw a lot of molded-fiberglass trailers on the road up there, most of them vintage. The Canadians know a good thing. A number of Trilliums. I've owned 4 molded-fb trailers and would like to buy an Escape. Took them to a lot of fun places (one at a time, of course).

2lazy4U wrote:
Gotta love those Trilliums. Isn't that what the Escape is based on?

Sho 'nuff is! On the outside, anyway. Trilliums were all-molded including cabinets; the Escape interior is stick-built just like any other trailer.

I think the Trillium's shell may be the most copied of the type. There's such a confusion of models/brands based on the original molds that I once attempted to sort it out with a map showing the various locations where they'd been made. And even then I think I missed some!

Gotta love those Trilliums. Isn't that what the Escape is based on?

RobertRyan wrote:


Correct, little Trailers like the Trillium would be useless here.

Now yer gettin' carried away, Robert. You always make Australia sound like some third world country! There are PLENTY of small trailers giving perfectly good service on Australian back roads. I'm sure there's a contingent of folks that want to ford rivers and climb mountainfaces etc., just like here. But they're likely the minority, also just like here.

As for my earlier question per the superiority of that Aussie Aliner for brutal off road use: even the mfr. makes no such claim, and the most adventurous thing its advids show it doing is trailin' down a dirt road behind a tug that looks much like my own. Link to page.

I will say that the PRICE is "special"- $36,000.00 for a folding trailer! :E

P.S.

My Trillium has held up very well over many miles of rottenroad- nothin' like going slow on washboard/dry stream beds etc. Although I did develop a mysterious crack in the gelcoat somewhere along the line last year. Easy repair, especially since it didn't penetrate the shell.

I've driven roads that I would never even in my wildest dreams consider taking a trailer down, places like Shaeffer Trail in Canyonlands, the Flint Trail into the Maze (Canyonlands), Black Bear Pass (Colorado's San Juans). etc. etc.

I've run into Aussies who think nothing of hauling trailers any place their rig will go. A Trillium would, like Robert said, disintegrate, as would most trailers. A few steep narrow rocky roads in the PNW (or Colorado, for that matter) don't even begin to match what these crazies will do. Picture something more along the lines of trying to drive out to Whidbey Island pulling your rig (maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not much). Don't ever get in a p**ing match with an Aussie. My cousin Mike was an ice roads trucker in Alaska and agrees with me.

And I might add, NEVER buy a used rig from an Aussie. LOL