/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2730258

Pop up trailers are great.
Ive made 3 trailers out of pop ups I got for free.

>>2730258

Just use self tappers and go plywood straight to the frame.

>>2730258
Craigslist and Facebook market usually have cheap tent trailers. A lot of people will tear them down to the frame and build a teardrop trailer. I have a 5x8 that I widened and built out over the tires.

>>2731638
Is the 2" receiver at the front for accessories like bike racks?

>>2731658
Exactly. I have a bike rack I put there usually, but that trip I was hunting and a bike would have been useless.

>>2731500
I heard camper trailers were flimsy compared to normal utility trailers which is why I thought i would be to reinforce it.
They need to carry their own weight so they can't be that bad but I imagine 500 pounds in the center is different from the loading of a built camper.
Maybe it was just when I was looking at bigger ones where its an issue if someone strips a 20 footer and tried to use it to transport skidloader or something retarded.

>>2731721

Who told you that?
Theres a big range, but even the flimsiest ones will be leages ahead of harbor freight trash.
Pop ups are flimsy, but its cuz the walls are one inch box tubing with styrofoam between em with thin fiberglass on the outside. The ones from the 60s and 70s are fuckin built. All of them have a very solid frame and axle under em, with thr wheels and tires usually being the limiting factor.

500 lbs is nothing. A load in the center of the trailer just forward of the axle will be leagues more stable than a stove, shit tank, water tank, propane tanks and 1000 lbs of unsecured camping gear glenda ad cletus shoved in every corner of the thing to go camping.

Ive brought well over a ton to the dump in this one. Its bedframes and reclaimed plywood.

If you want to haul a "skid loader" this just isnt the thread
Even a brand new 3k gvrw (2-3 grand) single axle trailer has a max carrying capacity of 1700 lbs or so if you are following the rules.

This is one of the modern ones thats way less built, but it still will haul garden tractors, motorcycles, 12 sheets of 5/8 drywall, and really whatever you need to

You run outta size before weight capacity unless you are hauling stone

12 sheets of type x drywall, at 70 lbs a piece this is well over 800 lbs of load. Trailer doesnt care. Van didnt love it.

>>2731725
>>2731729

I looked at car hauler trailer conversions of larger campers a while ago and people were saying they need a lot of reinforcement and they didn't look super well built,they were newer but I wasn't comparing them to other trailers. The pop up frames I would see have less support rails going between the frame rails compared to the HF so I assumed it needs more support to prevent the flooring from sagging under load.
The skid loader is a purposefully absurd scenario at my guess to imagine why people would say they are flimsy if they took a big camper, stripped it and treated it harshly.
How heavy are they when stripped?

Light enough to hook your free pop up camper to your free cub cadet you welded a 2 inch receiver to so you can haul free shit into the woods and build trash your town doesnt know about!
Anyway, my expose is done
You should be able to take it from here

>>2731739

Depends, 3 to 600 lbs dry and stripped would be my guess.
Axle size and tires are usually the limiting factors, not the frames.
People who diy car trailers arent really who you should be looking towards. Yea, they can be functional, but at that point where you really should have working brakes and stuff just get a cheap iteration of a thing made to do that from the start. Or rent uhauls to haul cars

Go to www.tnttt.com, a Teardrop forum filled with tons and tons of info, sources and inspiration.

I recommend a 5x8, fits a queen sized mattress

HF trailers are not the best choice, but they can work.

>>2731740
based

>>2730258
A better question is what would be the cheapest way to get it out of the tow yard?
Would a handie do it?
Or maybe a blowie?
Or is it going to take cash dollars?