/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2404259
>offroad sleeper
Why bother with a trailer?

>>2404259
>bougie
Lol
What do you mean by 4x4 rig? I'm assuming a quad but some country boys exclusively refer to their trucks as 4x4s, because it's something special to have 2 live axles I guess. If you can fab shit up you got a lot of options but what exactly are you hauling? Do you need to have space spot for fishing gear, or some rifles and a spot to tie a deer down to? Or tools? I have some ideas but no sense in saying a bunch of shit that doesn't apply to your needs.

Unless you find a used one cheap HF trailers are a meme, at least in the US, they had issues with DOT ratings and essentially don't sell them anymore.
Lowes and tractor supply new utility trailers are $800-1200 or so and the easiest cheap way to do a box would be to find a cheap used pickup camper and make it fit.
https://www.shoppok.com/allentown/a,38,314824,PICKUP-TRUCK-CAMPER----750--Philadelphia-.htm
From what ive seen the nicer expensive ones are that way in part because they have serious offroad suspension that cheap utility trailers don't , and not just beefed up springs or aftermarket shocks, either....some of them are almost like a rock crawler setup. You don't necessarily need all that stuff but if you off road you know stuff breaks so if you want to not worry or crawl at a snails pace and get stuck anyway that's the price you pay.

>>2404259
Get a load of Mr City Slicker here sleeping in his trailer instead of pitching a tent

>>2404283
>Why bother with a trailer?
so you can move your vehicle quickly when you want/need to witout having to pack up a tent pitched on the roof, for one thing.
So you can leave your sleeping box set up and ready to crash in at your campsite and go places with just your vehicle whether its day trips to explore or fish or a trip to get more beer. If there's other people with you they can stay with the box or not and sleep or read or whatever, hard to do that in a tent on the roof.
So you can use the trailer with any vehicle with a trailer hitch and not just the ones your fruity roof tent works on.
Is conjuring up the benefits of a separate camp trailer really that hard to do?

>>2404292
>they had issues with DOT ratings
fucking lol. I used to see them hanging up in the walls in one of the local stores, next to the cement mixer and shitty scaffolding.

>>2404315
>on.
>Is conjuring up the benefits of a separate camp trailer really that hard to do?
Even after all that drivel, yes. Get a regular tent. Or a good mummy (sleeping) bag, that packs up quite fast. Or a hammock with a mosquito net.

Or look up teardrops trailers. Learn to weld, not effing hard.

>>2404292
>Unless you find a used one cheap HF trailers are a meme, at least in the US, they had issues with DOT ratings and essentially don't sell them anymore.
Northern Tools has a great 5x8 knockdown utility trailer kit.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200612541_200612541
It would be a great base for a tear drop, and it could fit a queen sized mattress (60"x80").

>>2404340
>Get a regular tent. Or a good mummy (sleeping) bag, that packs up quite fast. Or a hammock with a mosquito net.
Why, so some random dickswinger on 4chan will signal his approval?

>Or look up teardrops trailers.
So it's *not* hard to see why a trailer is a good option after all, you're just a knee-jerk contrarian dick swinger.

Yup I built mine with a northern tool 5x8 a format a nice mattress in there. Start looking up plans on teardrop trailer forums. I recommend keeping it simple and doing a square design and not a teardrop. I did what’s called a Benroy style but wish I kept it simpler by not having any curves in it. I used canvas cloth from harbor freight with a heavy coat of clue on both of sides. Then painted over that with outdoor paint. There is a lot of info out there to build your own. Mine was over built and designed to go off road I spent maybe 4 grand including the purchase of a table saw and welder over sized tires a bigger axle, solar, water pump etc to live off grid for awhile.

>>2404354
You're imagining a lot of dickswinging.

>random dickswinger on 4chan will signal his approval?
And it's not being sought with the trailer? He (or you) asked the cheapest way. The cheapest way is to not do it. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

>So it's *not* hard to see why a trailer is a good option after all...
It really is hard. I hate towing a light load, especially on "mild trails."
Requirement was:
>Just room to sleep, some storage and protection from the elements.
My solutions did that. Now he wants to bug out. But also wants to drive away, leaving the bivouac in situ. Again, look up teardrops and build it.

>>2404259
build a shell over your truck bed 2x4's and plywood under 400 bucks for everything

>>2404362
>And it's not being sought with the trailer? He (or you) asked the cheapest way.
That's not seeking approval.
>The cheapest way is to not do it. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
Ilaughably illogical platitude. Dick swinging.
>>So it's *not* hard to see why a trailer is a good option after all...
>It really is hard. I hate towing a light load, especially on "mild trails..
Nobody asked or cares what you like. But you pretend that it matters.
>Requirement was:
>>Just room to sleep, some storage and protection from the elements.
>My solutions did that.

Not via a trailer , which was the OPs primary requirement. You ignored that, asked why anyone would choose a trailer over a tent, ignored that too except to mock an honest answer (dick swinging) and tried to impose your will and desires over the OP and others trying to help him and now pretend that you held firmly to what he asked for.
You act like it's your job to parent grown ass people and shame them into agreeing that you know best..
Textbook thread jacking internet dick swinger.

>>2404355
A simple plywood box on a NT 5x8 trailer is a good way to do it, decent results, modest weight, economical.

>>2404375
>That's not seeking approval.
Sure it is. Hey yeah! You're right, don't get a Toyota Raider, slide-in camper or a tent. You're a genius OP.

>laughably illogical platitude. Dick swinging.
Dick swinging again. I swear this is the first time I've seen this cast about. Tell me more, is this the ole helicopter thing? Or more left right motion. That'd be more like dick wagging. I left out the part of OP not looking up prices and doing his own research or not asking an original, thoughtful question.

>>>So it's *not* hard to see why a trailer is a good option after all...
>>It really is hard. I hate towing a light load, especially on "mild trails..
>Nobody asked or cares what you like. But you pretend that it matters.
Seems familiar, if taking one to know one is an indication, then I'll lick my wounds. Interesting how nobody caring can go both ways, no? However, because a false conclusion was drawn, I was invited to double down.

>Not via a trailer, which was the OPs primary requirement.
Your interpretation is that the trailer is the primary concern. To me, cost is his primary concern.

>You ignored that, asked why anyone would choose a trailer over a tent, ignored that too except to mock an honest answer (dick swinging)
Nope, didn't ask why ANYONE would. Got a big family? Get a trailer. Got a woman that won't pee in the woods? Get a trailer.
>and tried to impose your will and desires over the OP and others trying to help him and now pretend that you held firmly to what he asked for.
What? You are living in your own narrative. Was I using hypnosis? Neither those car tents or trailers are my desire.
>You act like it's your job to parent grown ass people and shame them into agreeing that you know best..
Actually spot on, given my job, sans the shaming. Challenging a thought, or looking differently at a problem... yep.
>Textbook thread jacking internet dick swinger.
Just realized you've attributed to me more threads than is mine, fucking kek.

>>2404259
>absolute cheapest way to make an offroad sleeper trailer?
The cheapest is to find a trailer on the side of the road or get one free of CL.

An inexpensive way would be to get an 8 foot V nose trailer and add a vent, a cot, a table, get some nylon netting to screen off the back while sleeping.

>>2404401
>Got a woman that won't pee in the woods? Get a trailer.
Correction : get a better woman

>>2404259
what about one of those cheap surplus military trailers (govplanet) with a rooftop tent permanently attached. then you have some storage underneath it, and I think they come with pintle hooks.

looks like it has been done, and I'm a genius.
https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/for-sale-pew-m101-1-4-ton-camping-trailer.197285/

>>2404419
forgot pic

Not really a DIY answer but look into Runaway trailers. They are a good, lower cost starting point. You can then DIY it to make it your own. I have been happy with mine.

>>2404259
get the rear end of a pickup truck and lift it up with some more leaf springs.

>>2404259
trash bin.

>>2404259
just buy the cheapest trailer you can get and install a roof tent on it like >>2404420

you can use it as a normal trailer too and have storage under the tent

>>2404393
Just building a removable "mini house" that you can put on a standard trailer seems like a great idea, because you can still use the trailer for anything else. Maybe build it in a ways you can stow it in the trailer in a folded in position, so you dont get in trouble driving it around.

>>2404259
>Cheapest way

Just buy a nice tent. Campers are dumb. They're cumbersome, take up a bunch of space to store, need to keep up on maintenance on them so they don't rot and fall apart, need to have proper vehicles to tow them with the correct towing accessories on your vehicle. You don't have to deal with any of this crap with a tent.

>>2404411
>get a better woman
I've given up. Risk-reward and all. Good on those that can put up with it.

>>2404259
I've been watching a lot of off-road recovery YouTube lately and it seems like most of them are using trailers that don't have suspension at all. It goes through the rock crawling and off-road trails better, one less thing to break, weight savings so you can build armor around the corners and bottom.

>>2404283
How likely are you to be attacked by a bear sleeping in one of these things tho

>>2404637
>need to have proper vehicles to tow them with the correct towing accessories on your vehicle.
Teardrops and similar are tiny. The whole point is to keep the weight under a ton so they can be pulled by any vehicle. The
>muh suv or muh truck
for towing is a total meme.

>>2404259
I've made many pickup truck bed trailers after scrapping out trucks by cutting the frame rails just behind the front suspension, slitting the C-channel top and bottom near the bed then pressing the channels together and welding in a Reese socket so I can make the tongue (2" heavy wall box tubing) removable to deter theft.
Swap the truck axle for a trailer axle, bolt on and enjoy. A camper of course fits them.

>>2404259
Get some dirt on a guy that owns one and manipulate him into giving you the title. Simple as

>>2404259
Mate an old pickup truck bed to a trailer and put a camper in that or a truck cap

>>2405706
In a camper, not very, even if they can smell food. They might snuffle around for a while, though. Bears usually attack hikers if they feel threatened, or they'll attack someone in a tent, like a woman in Montana last year, or that fucktard Treadwell. But thousands of people camp in trailers and RVs all over Alaska and lower states with grizzlies, and have no issues.

That's grizzlies. Black bears, won't happen. We used to have black bears around the camps when I was a kid, going on camping trips (bonus: i didn't get molested). No problem - and we were in tents.

>>2404420
Don't care about the trailer, but that's a nice fucking Jeep.

>>2406179
>Jeep
FOAD

>>2407361
Fix it again Jeff

>>2406179
Not a jeep, It's a Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser

>>2404419
Came in here to suggest these. The pintle hitch is superior for offroad travel, and those trailer bases are made to be pulled offroad unlike regular cheapo trailers that might not hold up.

>>2408484
You know what they say about fords
Fix it again tony.

>>2404355
I used the same 5x8 frame, did one curve on my trailer. Spent about 2k, 7 years ago. It's been fine since then. The steps are a joke, I just use them to get my shoes on and off.

>>2408494

>>2404259
I think this kind of set up would be your best bang for your buck.

>>2408780
Interior

>>2404259
these are pretty cool

>>2404340
I like the thought of a RTT on a small cargo trailer with independent suspension and 37" tires. Something I can drag out crown land and park, then pop the atv out from under the tent and go for a rip. If I need to go further take the truck.

>>2408796
They're easy to make too. Recip saw and a stick welder get it done.

>>2404393
That might be good for building the form, but just plywood on its own doesn't carry the benefits of some basic niceties like insulation.

>>2408806
Comfy, have any of the original plans? Or was is it a more on-the-fly thing?

>>2409586
My whole plan was based around fitting a full sized matress in it. I got the dimensions for the matress, then modeled it in foam board. Added 1" Styrofoam from home depot for insulation.

>>2409662

>>2404259
>>2404259
Just bought this trailer with the plan to convert it. Not concerned with going off-road. Going to use it to travel for business meetings without having to pay for a hotel.

Need help with ideas though.

Great thread!

>>2410001
what length and width

>>2410002
4x8 bed space. It's on the top corner.

>>2404259
>>2404283
I looked at these two options however I went with building a platform in the back of my truck and just sleep there. It's quiet, comfy, and dry.
I place a memory foam mattress on it diagonally and have plenty of space.

>>2410196
It's two sheets of 3/4 ply on two 2x6 beams. I have two storage bins I slide under it for organization. Other stuff like the cooler I leave in the back of the cab.

>>2410185
Ah sorry, we dont have those markings here.
Do you want to convert it permanently?
Id make a flipout bed, probably from the side. 3x7ft.
Then build a flipout table on the frontside, 4x~2ft, for eating/computer etc.
Maybe add bottom row shelves under the hinge side of the bed. That way you its not in the way when you want to get in bed, but accessable otherwise.
Depending on your climate, youll need a mini kitchen inside. You could just put a camping stove on you table, and store it under the bed if you dont need it.
Where do you shit/shower/shave? Subscription to a fitness chain?

>>2410226
Here’s what I was thinking of doing. Simply to sleep in and then a kitchenette that opens from the outside in the back.

>>2404259

>>2411264
>In memory of brothers and sisters lost.
I'd rather not be remembered this way.

>>2411180
Get a pop up canopy and a couple walls so you can protect your galley and cook in any weather.

>>2404283
Those stupid fucking tents are like five grand.