Gooseneck Camper Build
This is a thread to help others if they have an interest or are actually slipping over to the 'Dark Side". Mine is for going to Moab and Colorado riding dirt biker and such. Maybe a crawler later i...
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If I were doing one I’d be tempted to use a side-door camper so I could get in without unloading the trailer. But then I’d lose the “back porch”. That’s a tough choice.
Not as criticism but pure curiosity, I have the same quaestion as others, why not set the camper on the truck and pull a flatbed trailer behind? That’s what I do, the advantage being less total weight and more trailer deck space. With a Stable-Lift camper lift on it, it’s super easy to load or drop the camper, which makes it comparable to a trailer in that respect.
My main modification was to stretch the trailer tongue four feet so it can hitch directly to the truck, instead of using a four foot hitch extension. With a 10,000 pound trailer I feel this is a whole lot better.
This gives me 7500 pounds of usable capacity (the trailer itself weighs 2500) on the trailer deck, and the full 20 feet of deck.
Not as criticism but pure curiosity, I have the same quaestion as others, why not set the camper on the truck and pull a flatbed trailer behind? That’s what I do, the advantage being less total weight and more trailer deck space. With a Stable-Lift camper lift on it, it’s super easy to load or drop the camper, which makes it comparable to a trailer in that respect.
My main modification was to stretch the trailer tongue four feet so it can hitch directly to the truck, instead of using a four foot hitch extension. With a 10,000 pound trailer I feel this is a whole lot better.
This gives me 7500 pounds of usable capacity (the trailer itself weighs 2500) on the trailer deck, and the full 20 feet of deck.
