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How long is your garage? Length is an issue if you have a short garage. I have a Starcraft Comet Extreme A-Frame trailer...it has A/C btw. It fits in/under a 7 foot garage door. Its total length is right under 19 feet. You could look at A-Liner and several other A-Frame type trailers...

A NEW aluminum fuel tank may be used for storing water. Presumably you aren't dabbling in water with a pH around 13 or something crazy. If you are hauling around regular guy water with a pH around 7 an aluminum water tank would be fine. I would still filter it as a matter of course. A Brita...

A trailer with electric drive would rock. The motors really wouldn't need to be large at all...just enough to slowly pivot the trailer around its own center. The trailer battery could easily drive these motors. The hard part is trying to put this together. You need some way to decouple the...

Scouting is so seldom used it seems. After a few decades of off roading I am a huge fan of walking...or mountain biking the trail. Getting stuck in the boonies just isn't fun and neither is trashing your rig. I find that downloading imagery and maps to something like a IPad or Nexus 7 (or 9...

I have unhitched and manhandled a Comet Extreme hard side trailer a number of times. Not fun, and a little unnerving on North Idaho mountain sides. The box is 12 feet long for a total length of about 18 feet. Anything bigger than that and you can forget unhitching it and moving it by hand...

XO Jack That jack might work. Any input on it? It looks beefy...how does it compare to the standard 2000 pound crank down, fixed in place, triangle mounted trailer jack? My trailer jack is built into the tongue and cranks down a sheet metal cylinder with a cheesy wheel on it. That thing...

I own a 1997 4Runner. Pros: Its agile. Great after market support. You can sleep a six foot tall person in the back. Build quality is solid. It performs well off road in stock condition, modest upgrades make it better. Want more power? Super charge it. Cons: All 3rd gen 4Runners are...

I went through the same thought process. Looked at the Little Guys, crawled in them, under them, played lets cook with the kitchen. The idea is cool and very old school. I found that it just wasn't really adequate for the needs of a man and woman and anyone else. I went with an off road...

I am thinking the so called angle in that thing was about what you described. I have been running around and reinforcing the staples in the cabinets with screws as I feel the need. I dig the folding A-frame and the 4500 pound Dexter axle with the brakes. Everything else is on the path to a...

It is sadly funny. Factory made RV's find amazing places to be cheap. I dig the A-frame trailer and this one has the ground clearance I wanted. Everything else can be fixed or made better as I figure it out.

Some pictures of it in play...

Pics of the fresh water tank fix/debacle...note my choice for angle iron tank support compared to the stock install.

Updates (May/June 2016) Some more feedback on the "buy not build" option I went with. RV's all seem to have issues...so "mostly buy and certainly tweak" is more what you get. I filled the water tank...and it falls off/out. No harm since the hoses just kindly disconnected themselves without...

Sheep Camp Trailer and Snakes I second the snake like nature of a 4 wheel trailer at near highway speeds. That configuration is exactly the same as a hay wagon. Four wheels with the wheels at the corners. Handles fine at speeds say less than 30 mph or so. At highway speeds those trailers...

Just purchased a 2016 Starcraft Comet Extreme. For what its worth I will update this post with what I learn about this neat little trailer, the good, the bad, and the ugly. First, the lowdown on the motivation: The trailer had to have a bed suitable for 2 mid-century adults. If you are...