Advice on tear-down/rebuild?
I want a 5th Wheel/TH about 38' long, and I'm debating whether to build from scratch (on a drop deck trailer) or buy a cheap, used 5th Wheel/TH and tear it down to the "foundation" and rebuild. (I've ...
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QUOTE: "I personally would stay away from SIP's for the construction of a TH or any other TT for that matter because of the dynamic forces that trailers generate by being towed (wind loading, weight shifting, braking, etc). To me you'd constantly be chasing leaks (water and air) and all the other problems that trailers incure due to all the bending and twisting they encounter. In engineering terms it's called 'rotation'."
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I don't have the expertise to exactly pinpoint why this sounds right, but it does. Maybe it's just the idea of dragging ANY cracker box house down the highway at 70 MPH and then down dirt roads for very long!
My problem is that I can get a wood-framed or SIP panel house build pretty cheaply, and even if my guys have a steep learning curve attaching it to the frame and doing RV plumbing, it's doable. To do what you did--with steel fabrication, etc.--I think I'd have to get a factory to do it for me, at great cost.
Any idea how I could find out which older model 5th Wheels and THs *were* framed strongly? Are there some out there where we could gut and reconfigure?
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I don't have the expertise to exactly pinpoint why this sounds right, but it does. Maybe it's just the idea of dragging ANY cracker box house down the highway at 70 MPH and then down dirt roads for very long!
My problem is that I can get a wood-framed or SIP panel house build pretty cheaply, and even if my guys have a steep learning curve attaching it to the frame and doing RV plumbing, it's doable. To do what you did--with steel fabrication, etc.--I think I'd have to get a factory to do it for me, at great cost.
Any idea how I could find out which older model 5th Wheels and THs *were* framed strongly? Are there some out there where we could gut and reconfigure?
