Build Your Own Travel Trailer
Thought is to take a 15' to 20' long landscape trailer as the base to build a custom travel trailer. Anyone ever build their own trailer? Thoughts, ideas, comments, all appreciated.
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Gdetrailer wrote:
"Landscape" trailer like this?
Yeah, forget about it.
Take a good hard look at the steel rail above the deck..
THAT is your "frame"..
If you cut it or remove it the entire trailer will sag over time.
Those trailers are built way to skimpy to build a RV on unless you want to spend a considerable amount of time and money revamping it with much heavier steel framing.
Have you ever paid much attention to the frame of a TT? We had a old one, wanted to build something on the frame. Pulled the appliances out, cut the bolts, and strapped the house to frame to haul to the dump. Thought we could just hoe the house off the frame, and take it back to shop. (We did that) When unstrapping we discovered the weight of house, without the stiffness of house bolted to frame was more than frame could handle.
We built the trailer we wanted, but only used the axles, suspension, and coupler...
