Offroad Travel Trailers in the US?
My favorite type of camping is in the middle of nowhere, away from everyone else. This often means travel over hundreds of miles off road. I'm not talking a dirt road you could take a prius on, but a ...
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themoreweexplore wrote:gmw photos wrote:
Be careful with that idea. Really do some serious homework on the idea, because A/S are built with a rather light main frame, because the riveted skin becomes part of the structure itself. It's possible to damage the body structure if you flex the main frame too much.
Would rollers put more stress on the trailer than drag bars? I figured the less it's dragging the best, but I suppose wheels may encourage it to lift up rather than dig down.
I do wish the airstream frames were beefier like the old Avions.
Well Steve, at least in my opinion ( I was trying to gently allude to it in my first post on it ) I would not want to drag the back end of an A/S at all. Rollers or drag bars. Too much potential to damage a structure that is already known as rather fragile, and very labor intensive to fix if it is damaged. Since this is your full time home, taking it out of service for major repairs would be a bit of a pain.
PS. I sure enjoy following your blog. You're a better mechanic that you admit to being :)
