Truck camper on bumper pull trailer for toy hauler

burningman wrote:
I measured mine just out of curiosity and my swing-out dually brackets aren't enough to clear my flatbed trailer. I'm not saying you can't do it - I have set campers on car trailers before myself - but it took a bit of creativity to get it on there.
I've done it by making an extra-wide steel brace that bolted across the front of the camper and held the jacks way out, then removed them, and I've done it with a boom truck crane.
I've thought about rolling one on steel fence piles.

I have a forklift and front end loaders I can use to put it on the trailer so that's not a concern.

horton333 wrote:

kregernick wrote:
Does anyone have any experience mounting a slide in camper to the front of a bumper pull trailer to have open deck space for toys?

Wouldn't it be easier to put the camper in the bed likes it's designed for and tow an open trailer, is it a weight issue?
There are also trailers that have a large open section at the front for toys and then a trailer behind like this that would do the same(but I'm guessing you already have a unit you want to use?)

LIke this.

I've got a 9 1/2 foot TC and a crew cab 2500hd with the 6 1/2 foot box. Not real friendly to be pulling a trailer behind with the camper in the box.

I have a 7000 lbs 22 foot flat deck trailer that I plan on turning into a camper/toy hauler so I can still fit my 2 golf carts on the trailer.

I measured mine just out of curiosity and my swing-out dually brackets aren't enough to clear my flatbed trailer. I'm not saying you can't do it - I have set campers on car trailers before myself - but it took a bit of creativity to get it on there.
I've done it by making an extra-wide steel brace that bolted across the front of the camper and held the jacks way out, then removed them, and I've done it with a boom truck crane.
I've thought about rolling one on steel fence piles.

kregernick wrote:
Does anyone have any experience mounting a slide in camper to the front of a bumper pull trailer to have open deck space for toys?

Wouldn't it be easier to put the camper in the bed likes it's designed for and tow an open trailer, is it a weight issue?
There are also trailers that have a large open section at the front for toys and then a trailer behind like this that would do the same(but I'm guessing you already have a unit you want to use?)

LIke this.

deltabravo wrote:
I saw an Artic Fox camper set up like that.

More clicking and I found a blog about it: http://macgellan.blogspot.com/2011/07/introducing-camper-sled.html

deltabravo wrote:
I saw an Artic Fox camper set up like that.

I just found the photo I saw of the AF:



The trailer came from Freeway Trailer Sales in Fife, WA

The front cargo box is nice for secure storage of "stuff and things"
That camper looks like a 990, without swing-out brackets.

I'm guessing that's a 14' trailer, which is good for a compact package, but I'd probably want a 20' trailer to get a rear deck/toy hauling area.

I saw an Artic Fox camper set up like that. Getting the camper's COG over the axles is key though, so you don't have excess tongue weight.

The camper will probably need swing-out dually style brackets to the trailer fits through the jacks.

There's a 4x4 forum where I've seen people do it. http://www.pirate4x4.com/welcome1.php

I've looked through those pictures on google before. Most people set the camper back on the trailer. The closest to what I'm planning on doing I've only seen in the pictures with the avalanche.

I've never done it but, it has been done many times.

Truck Camper on Flatbed