What a great website!!
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:04 pmWOW! What a great site! I had no idea there was this much interest in building and owning these campers! Some beer buddies and I were camping last weekend here in KS and the subject came up about these little, airplane-winged trailers that you could just sleep in that we'd seen on the Travel Channel but nobody could remember the correct name for them. I came home on Sunday and looked on Google until I finally found some hits on "teardrop trailers" and found this site. I built a small, 4 X 6 X 3 enclosed trailer out of plywood and angle iron to store all my camping gear in because I was tired of having it cluttered all over the garage floor. I could just hook up and go!! Now the weather is starting to get to the plywood and it's buckling up on the roof. I had good intentions when I built it to last a long time but my knowledge about trailer building would make a very short book. I know what I'm going to do with the trailer now!! I am a diesel mechanic by trade so tools are my friends. I don't have much woodworking experience so this is pretty intimidating reading all the "industry lingo" on the posts and subjects but will learn them as I go. I belong to a HUGE El Camino organization that's website is set up just like this one so I have been going over the posts that I am interested in and getting VERY useful information from them at ease.
Metal is the media I am used to working with, so wood is a bit of a challange. I'll have to alter my "knuckledragger" mentality to do this project. I've seen so many different designs on this site my head is swimming on what I want. I should probably just stop looking and go with what's in my head.
Keep up all the good work!!!
P.S. I LUUUUUUUUV pictures and drawings!
Metal is the media I am used to working with, so wood is a bit of a challange. I'll have to alter my "knuckledragger" mentality to do this project. I've seen so many different designs on this site my head is swimming on what I want. I should probably just stop looking and go with what's in my head.
Keep up all the good work!!!
P.S. I LUUUUUUUUV pictures and drawings!
) and no planned trip to Meeshigan. I would like to skin mine in sheet metal and paint it white with some KC Chiefs insignia. Kind of a tailgater special. Summers, other than this one, are brutal to camp in around here - low 80's/high humidity(at night!) so the white paint job would work well for me. I go canoeing all over Missouri and Oklahoma and would hate to see a nice aluminum or wood tear get beat up on the gravel roads. I've pretty much decided that I'm going to Rockguard the front and paint over it to keep the dings from showing so easily. Just like my El Camino, I will use this alot and often.