Well this lost ought to round out the old work from last year and a few trips from summer/fall 2014!
Back from the first trip and I decided I wanted to build a table of sorts to keep the stove on and stuff when in camp. I started with some drop-in two part shelf track stuff and went from there!
I decided that the table was going to have to fold in half long ways to be able to carry it in the available space on the tongue so I whipped up a frame using some leftover angle stock and some hinges.
I skinned the table top using some of the leftover aluminum from the body and used some extendable paint roller handles for table legs to account for varied terrain.
Made some handles using 3/8” solid bar and used some stainless spring paddle latches to keep the briefcase table closed.
The overbuilt table carrier!
I also mounted up my jerry can carriers, painted the taillight holders silver to match the aluminum and added a high-mount stop/signal light!
I also made a little diddy for hangers while I was playing with the 3/8” solid bar and torch!
After that I headed to Maine, Acadia specifically, for 10 days and the first major trip! The scenery and weather was amazing and it was really nice to come back to my little trailer each night instead of a crowded hotel or a plain old tent! I swapped on the Max-Coupler too before heading to Maine which really towed nice and took some of the clank out of running a regular ball.
After a few trips I knew I wanted more interior storage so I build a nice little corner cabinet to go above the mattress area. The top of the cabinet box was particularly challenging due to the compound angles of the cabinet face and the roof.
At the first Mid-Atlantic Overland Festival with Elmo_4_vt and his fam!
A great event I'll be back at again this year!
I also redid the front cabinet doors with thinner framing to match the rear cabinet. By late summer I pulled the cabinets and did a final sand of all the woodwork and laid on a few coats of satin poly clear to protect and seal it. By now the list of work left was really shrinking!
I spent a good bit of the summer traveling and building my tow rig (
build thread here) and in late late year Elmo_4_vt, his fam and myself went out to PA for the last hurrah of the year - the scenery was impressive! As you can see the Tacoma looks very different than from a few months earlier in Maine!
The first outing of this year is coming up in a few weeks and I hope to get a few little details wrapped up before then! Updates coming soon!
