After selling the Chief last year (build thread here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29345), I thought several times about building a new trailer. The main reason I sold the Chief is because I did not have a place to keep it and storage fees are very expensive around here. I also felt that the trailer was under built for where I wanted to go, it was also a little heavy, wide and time consuming to set up.
While at a visit to my Parents house they reminded me of a bunch of old parts I had in the backyard. They wanted everything gone so they could do some landscaping and remodeling. Most of it was just trash, then there was the frame (or what was left of it) of my first Toyota. It had been setting there for close to eight years and I never got around to cutting it up and recycling it. I spend some time looking at it, figuring out the best way to cut it and throw it away… then I thought “I can build a trailer out of this!” I know the idea sounds ridiculous, and I’m sure it is, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. So I loaded it up and brought it to the shop.
The idea behind this build is to use what I have and spend as little as possible, while building a nice little camping trailer. I will have to spend some money on it but I am going to try to budget it as much as possible.
So here we go! This is how it looked when I got it to the shop; dirt, weeds, spiders and some surface rust. I pulled the exhaust off and threw it away; the tires are for rollers until I get something else.
While at a visit to my Parents house they reminded me of a bunch of old parts I had in the backyard. They wanted everything gone so they could do some landscaping and remodeling. Most of it was just trash, then there was the frame (or what was left of it) of my first Toyota. It had been setting there for close to eight years and I never got around to cutting it up and recycling it. I spend some time looking at it, figuring out the best way to cut it and throw it away… then I thought “I can build a trailer out of this!” I know the idea sounds ridiculous, and I’m sure it is, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. So I loaded it up and brought it to the shop.
The idea behind this build is to use what I have and spend as little as possible, while building a nice little camping trailer. I will have to spend some money on it but I am going to try to budget it as much as possible.
So here we go! This is how it looked when I got it to the shop; dirt, weeds, spiders and some surface rust. I pulled the exhaust off and threw it away; the tires are for rollers until I get something else.
