1) called my storage lot and cancelled my site rental. The old slide-in truck camper is dead, Jim.2) Looked at the pile of debris (there's a flat trailer under it) and trying to come up with uses for the debris. The rest will go out to the curb in ...
"The mounts need to be BOLTED to the frame and you need metal tie downs." Metal ties from an underframe belly bar to the eyebolts on a truck camper -- chain, hooks, eye bolts, turnbuckles, all can be found in hardware stores most anywhere in the US...
Do check out this site: http://www.tnttt.com/ short for "Teardrops and Tiny Travel Trailers" which is mostly about building small trailers designed to be lived in. There is a wealth of information on any and all aspects of building or modifying sm...
"...and a 4x4 beam as a tiedown? No. Heck no. No no no. Holding down some dirt, and holding down a bucking, bouncing, bounding camper are two entirely different things. One of them is a good place for a piece of wood, the other is not. We build house...
I bought my steel belly bars in 1983 before pricing became extravagant. By 2010 the end of one had rusted off, where a telescoped section slid inside the main square-cross-section tube. Otherwise they outlived my camper. For a temporary belly bar...
