***Currently editing post to include pictures from the completion of my build, bear with me!***
Hello all!
First and foremost I'd like to say that I'm glad to have found this forum and be a part of this community!
A little about me and how I found myself here- After making the decision to start traveling full time, I started looking into how I could make my 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe livable for myself and my girlfriend. With a little research under my belt, I was talking with my father and he had the idea of buying a trailer to use as storage as to maximize living space inside the vehicle....back to the drawing board. I knew my Hyundai was surprisingly capable as a tow vehicle after hauling my 18' fiberglass bass boat up and down the East Coast for the past few years.....but, it just didn't make sense to me to cram our living space in the car, and tow our storage space, so I started looking on craigslist for used campers. That was when I came across plans for a "Teardrop Camper" built by someone with "no previous experience". That was it; although hardly an expert, I'm no stranger to woodworking, and have an affinity for taking on projects such as this. I was sold, and so it began. After much deliberation, we decided that 5x8 was the right size trailer, and that we were just not satisfied with the trailers available to us. Long story short, we had a trailer custom built locally, out of 2x3 rectangular tubing (overkill, but hey, this IS my future home!), a 2500 lb axle, LED lights, and 2 levelers in the rear. We decided to go ahead and have square fenders welded on as well as an expended metal platform for the tongue box. We will be constructing a modified square teardrop, basing it loosely off of the Oregon Trail-r Terradrop. The fabrication of the trailer was completed this week, and it will be in our shop this weekend getting ready for a coat of paint and hopefully a floor in the coming weeks! I'm headed into work now, but have a few pictures from the shop it was fabricated in that I will post up later. Thanks for reading and joining me on this crazy journey!
Ben