Hi Everybody. I am pleased to announce that my brother Sawyer and I have decided to start a business together building teardrops. Technically our name is Oregon Trailer LLC, but we are going to "do business as" Oregon Trail'R - which we think is a more fun name. We are starting small and slow, with a single trailer. We are trying to work smart though, every time we build an important component, we build a jig or a template to easily reproduce the same thing next time, only far faster. The next production run will be three trailers. We are building this first one with lots of options/features so that we have a record on our site of what we can do and what our trailer can be. We will happily build them at any level though, including relatively bare bones options to fit various budget requirements. We are also offering frames, and kits for the DIY'ers among us.
We've learned a lot of valuable lessons on this forum, and will continue to do so I'm sure. We have been influenced by many of the great ideas people here on the forum have shared, and I'm sure many of you will see elements of the their own designs that we have "borrowed"
. We have been working on our first production model trailer for a few months now. We have been calling it "Streeter" so far, but we would really like feedback regarding the name... we have some other ideas for the name... but that will be another post. We are feeling really positive with everything so far with the build, which is most of the way completed. In an upcoming post I will be asking for some help from you all with some of the business aspects of this kind of undertaking, I've got lots of Questions.
We do have a website that we update very frequently. It is still a bit rough, and will likely get a professional remodel/upgrade in the future, but we'd like to share it with you all. You can find it here:
http://www.oregontrailer.net We are keeping a running build journal in the form of pictures, under the "Streeter Build" link. We update it weekly, so check back often. Also we had decided to offer, for sale, some of the products that we have created for this build. We are still working on the pricing a bit, so bear with us there, but check out our "accessories" link for some of the stuff we'll be offering very soon. We're look forward to hearing your thoughts on the site as well as the trailer.
We've already received some valuable help and advice from some key people, and we are grateful for it. Some of the folks that have been very helpful are: Cary at Camp-inn, Frank at Vintek, the Teardrop Fixit Shop, and several others.
Thanks all