Recent content by Jmanscotch

We explored some ghost towns, old mines and random trails. We ended our trip at some hot springs to melt the chill away and headed home. The trailer performed great, despite still not being finished. It was a great trip with dad.

As happens, we’ve been busy with life, raising a kid, spending time with family, working and traveling. I haven’t been working on finishing up the camper, though I’ve tinkered on a few little things. That said, over Christmas break, the wife and kiddo went to visit with family and my father and...

Went for a quick little fall color weekend trip. Got pretty wet and cold and I do have to say, we’re really enjoying the Propex propane heater. It sips propane and does a great job of keeping us toasty. New fender setup worked out well too.

You really just have to be honest about how you plan to use the trailer. We’re not living out of it or trying to do 1-2 week adventures in it, also we don’t cook inside, so if we’re inside the camper we are sleeping or just chilling out of bad weather. We don’t need to stand up. I need to...

I replaced the grade 5 bolts on the fender mounts (for mounts to the trailer frame, not fenders to the mounts) with larger 5/16” grade 8 bolts as the 1/4” grade 5 bolts were allowing a little flex when I stood on the fender mounts. Figured I’d grab a quick photo of the fender mounting tabs I...

It’s been a busy summer of traveling and events, so haven’t gone camping too much, but have gone a few times and the camper is doing great. Only issues we’ve had is the self tapping screws holding the fenders on. On our last trip, several of them worked themselves loose or out completely. I...

Haven’t had much time to dedicate to the trailer, but did carve out some time for a few things. I finally bought some flooring and installed it. It’s just installed loose and floating, I’m going to see how bad it moves around with the temperature swings and off roading before I go back through...

It’s been a couple weeks ago now, but caught up on life a bit and figured I’d come back to post a bit about our first trip. We had tried to go to a really nice spot we’ve been to before, but trails were closed and we ended up wandering around a bit and found a good enough spot as the sun set...

@Colotl Looks awesome! Very similar to my 6x10 v nose build. I use the built in photo attachment option, works great. As you go to post (at least on your phone) there’s an Attach Files option on the bottom left. Upload your pics and when they upload, there’s an Insert… button on the top...

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers! Hope all the men spoiled your wife/mother a bunch today too. We had started to go for a hike, but it started snowing and dumped 6” of wet slushy snow where we were headed, so had to turn around and crawl home down the mountains with a lot of out of towners...

Pulled the camper out from the back yard and went for a little test cruise, went well.

Last item today was the supports to help beef up the rear door stays. I had planed to weld them on the rear doors (and between you and me, I did start to try to weld them on…) but the rear door framing is aluminum, so I changed my plans and just screwed them down with self taping screws...

Hoping to go camping in about 2 weeks, so worked on getting a few key things finished up today. Reinstalled the heater vents and battery access door. I decided, with encouragement from the wife, to put doors on the upper cabinets for access (instead of open holes with nets to hold gear in...

I don’t see too many people dive into their propane tank mount details and they’re usually either strapped down somewhere with ratchets of one of those big price tag fancy ones. I figured I’d dive into the topic a little more, share my opinions and options I find most appealing. On my first...

Propane tank holder mock up. Fresh air inlet and exhaust routed for the Propex. Exited the exhaust on the driver side to keep it away from toddlers hands, fresh air inlet goes to the passenger side so it’s not sucking exhaust. Also remote mounted the propane regulator under the trailer...