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Converting old pop-up camper to shed trailer
Comments (3)If the leaf springs are on the underside of the axle, you should be able to flip the axle and mount the springs on top, then you wouldn't need as much of a wheelwell, I did this on my popup camper worked great. You should be able to bolt the frame of the shed right thru the frame of the trailer. I don't think you would have a weight issue. Doesn't sound like your going to be using it on the road. Tony...See MoreRaised platform greenhouse project
Comments (14)Thanks for your wisdom. I just want to clarify a few things. The windows are sandwiched between 2X4s on the top and bottom of each row which are supported all around by 6x6 posts in the 4 corners. They basically 'sit' on the 2x4's. The roof is anchored to the four 6x6 posts, so any weight on the roof should direct to the posts primarily and if there is some load on the low side, there's a 4x4 post horizontally at the bottom of that roof also which is also anchored to the 6x6 posts. If the posts sink unevenly I can see that might crack some windows, but hopefully the 4x4 takes the brunt of that weight to the 6x6 posts evenly over time and any sinking happens in unison. The floor has nothing to do with it.. which leads me into the next point... The decking (floor) is totally independent from the walls of windows and roof. The deck is on it's own concreted 6x6 supports. This way if the deck sinks, it has no bearing on the rest of the structure. Think of the deck as it's own island inside a shell that surrounds it. If the deck sinks and the shell doesn't that's ok. If the shell sinks and the deck sinks that's ok too. If they both sink that's also ok. It's only an issue if the shell doesn't sink evenly all around where I might have window trouble. Time will tell on this. We will see how the floor holds up. I did the same thing with no waterproof canvas over it in the old greenhouse (tent one). It lasted 2 years before the floor got funky and that was with no waterproof cover. Basically am experimenting here. I had the underlayment from ripping up carpet in the house. a free insulator, so figured I'd give it another try, but with the canvas over it to see what that's like. :) I do appreciate your expertise, but you may not have been aware of my design choices and my thought process behind them. Hope it makes sense and I get some good years out of the design. It will certainly be better than that plastic tent greenhouse that this is replacing (2 seasons)....See MoreAdvice on extended tent camping trip
Comments (3)We have a member of our fly fishing group that uses an old time canvas wall tent (I think he's just about worn it out ... who knows how old the thing is!) - AND, he tows everything around in a little utility trailer. Really does it with some kind of military efficiency; a place for everything and everything in it's place when he's traveling. Plus he gets on me about my popup tent camper - he says that at least when his utility trailer is not being used for camping that it can be also used for other things, like hauling his yard work bric-a-brac and debris, maybe even hauling a wash machine or refrigerator for somebody - in other words he says his utility trailer "earns it's keep" by using it for many other things besides camping. Says my tent trailer's only purpose in life is camping ... and he has a big point! My friend uses these large plastic bins to carry a lot of the camping gear (keeps it water tight) in the trailer; and has also made some wooden storage/carrying boxes for things like the axe, tent stakes and poles. Also has made a table with folding legs that just fits the bottom of trailer. When he gets everything loaded aboard, then has a plastic tarp he secures over the load - also uses this same plastic tarp as a canopy over his table & cooking area. Bottom line, he has an efficient system for setting up a most comfortable camp. Awhile back I told my utility trailer friend that at least I could carry my canoe on top of the closed popup camper for traveling down the road rather than having to carry it on the roof of the tow vehicle and partically obstructing some of the driver's vision, like he had to do with his utility trailer. Darned if when I saw him the last time that he had not made a removeable carrying rack for toting his canoe around that just fit the trailer! Dale...See MoreLiving in travel trailer/ good idea?
Comments (45)Jennymama, I just wanted to say congratulations on your new quarters! I came to this thread late so have just been reading through the posts...I kind of started chuckling about halfway through at the different "camps" we are all in (those who say "go for it" and those who shudder at the thought of living in a travel trailer for several months, LOL.) I wanted to do that when we were building on our land, and two years later I still think our lives would have been easier in many ways had we done so (we also thought about going ahead and building the shop and putting a small bathroom in it, to live in during the build.) I think you have three really big considerations that will make you very glad you did this. One is that the drive to your dd's school would take up so much of the time that you will need for dealing with things as the house is being built, not to mention time that could be better spent with your younger one. Two hours a day, five days is a week is a LOT of time that you just gave yourself! The two other things will be important to your sanity and comfort over the next few months, and they are the facts that you can put your travel trailer a bit away from construction site for privacy from the comings and goings of the workers (and safety for the kids re: construction materials) and also that you have that big finished shop. If you can keep that for your own stuff and not have it become a repository for storing construction stuff, it will be a real asset as far as storing kids' toys and household goods. You can both have things with you that might take up too much room in the camper, and start to move more of your stuff when it gets closer to time for the move. Good luck with the build and enjoy the outdoors....See Moremozy1
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