Burley
Adventurer
Sorry everyone it's taken me a little bit to respond. I usually rely on emails for notification of a response but don't seem to be getting them lately.
To Rwhat:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...Industries-prototype-expedition-trailer/page9
See post #86
Still unanswered questions for prospective buyers.
Trailer looks good. However since you plan on selling it here's my opinion.
Not diggin the fenders. No protection for rocks breaking your back window. If it's used for a cook surface I would skip cooking drunk food, i.e. fried foods. Gonna make a mess on the side. I would not want to be behind it on a paved road or especially a gravel.
The stitch welds on the skin are over kill. I would have just left stitch welds on the inside or used angle iron with hardware and used seam sealer. The spare tire is a waste of space on the tongue which the area could be used for storage to distribute tongue weight or used for a big cooler.
The jack storage on the inside is wasting usable space for certain sized totes, ect. You own a jeep so you should know this.
Front tongue jack look like it has to be removed, unless it's stored facing foward at 90*. So unless it stored facing foward it had to be installed before every time you have to un hitch or hitch up.
Tailgate has to be heavy especially skinned with steel and that bracing. Dropping down 180* is gonna be heavy. You probably better off with a swing out tailgate that could have a table intergrated in and maybe storing the spare tire on that and freeing up the tongue storage.
I would skip running off the shelf trailer leaf springs and run something else. Although keep the leaf spring set up since it's user friendly and very durable.
The list can go one. I'm only giving my opinion since you plan on selling them.
That last line is the key. I re-read that post a few time and can't seem to come up with any questions. It looks like all statements and opinions and nothing posed as a question. While I appriciate you taking the time to give your opinion, if you have a specific question I'm more than happy to answer it. You just have to pose it as a question so I know you want a specific answer.
To Rwhat:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...Industries-prototype-expedition-trailer/page9
See post #86
Still unanswered questions for prospective buyers.
Trailer looks good. However since you plan on selling it here's my opinion.
Not diggin the fenders. No protection for rocks breaking your back window. If it's used for a cook surface I would skip cooking drunk food, i.e. fried foods. Gonna make a mess on the side. I would not want to be behind it on a paved road or especially a gravel.
The stitch welds on the skin are over kill. I would have just left stitch welds on the inside or used angle iron with hardware and used seam sealer. The spare tire is a waste of space on the tongue which the area could be used for storage to distribute tongue weight or used for a big cooler.
The jack storage on the inside is wasting usable space for certain sized totes, ect. You own a jeep so you should know this.
Front tongue jack look like it has to be removed, unless it's stored facing foward at 90*. So unless it stored facing foward it had to be installed before every time you have to un hitch or hitch up.
Tailgate has to be heavy especially skinned with steel and that bracing. Dropping down 180* is gonna be heavy. You probably better off with a swing out tailgate that could have a table intergrated in and maybe storing the spare tire on that and freeing up the tongue storage.
I would skip running off the shelf trailer leaf springs and run something else. Although keep the leaf spring set up since it's user friendly and very durable.
The list can go one. I'm only giving my opinion since you plan on selling them.
That last line is the key. I re-read that post a few time and can't seem to come up with any questions. It looks like all statements and opinions and nothing posed as a question. While I appriciate you taking the time to give your opinion, if you have a specific question I'm more than happy to answer it. You just have to pose it as a question so I know you want a specific answer.
. The one thing that does really stand out to me is the weight. I think I saw someplace like 1100# dry/unloaded? That's pretty hefty for a 4x6 trailer, and coming I'm sure from being seriously overbuilt. Strong is never a bad thing but at some point it can become wasted. For example I've owned 3 different M416s, dry weight I believe 550#, and all of them pushing 40 yrs old. Frames are formed channel and sides stout but unsupported sheet metal. What I mean by unsupported is no square tube framing or the like. They get away with that by dmpling the sheet metal which gives it some rigidity, and putting some bends in it here and there for the same reason. Strength without additional weight.
