Hi there just read through the 60 pages of this build in a day and I must say outstanding work. I had just a couple of thoughts while reading that I'd like to share.
I was thinking it would be clever or easy if the flat bed had some sort of cone shaped pins at each corner and the camper would have the coresponding shape built in so that when landing the camper back on to the bed it would be some what self centering/aligning and would also provide some additional resistance to side shifting while off-road when combined with your latch system.
I believe the main benefit I is see to your camper is its detachable nature. I have been studying what I think the most versatile rv would be and believe it to be the truck camper. In looking at what was available I was never able to find anything that would fit in the gvwr and still have a reasonable amount of payload leftover to legally carry passangers and be able to tow a fair amount. I believe that your light weight construction methods have solved a serious problem that other camper manufactures have just been ignoring by miss quoting weights and only using dry weights when the campers are likely never used in that fashion and are almost guarantied to be overloading every chassis they are put on.
In contemplating how to build something exactly like what you have here with no real skill set to do so and generally just mulling over what I would do if I had the ability, I came up with the idea that I would be interesting to be able to drop the camper at a remote location and have the flatbed truck be equipt with a fresh water tank and grey/ black tank so that once your base camp was set up the truck could be taken in to town so to speak be able to dump what needed to be dumped and refill what needed to be refilled to provide for an extended stays remotely without having to break everything down.
The cool thing about what you are building here is the ability to have an rv with the dual purpose of having a truck to use during the week and the freedom to roam with the vehicle once camp is set up on the weekend, be it 4wheeling or in town exploring. With the lite weight characteristics you can tow almost any type of hobby behind, be it a boat with the ability to launch without breaking down camp, SxS, dirt bikes, horses or work equipment. No other type of RV can do it all as well as the truck camper. Sorry it was so long but I definitely feel that what you've brought to market is REAL BIG game changer.
Outstanding work. Outstanding.
I was thinking it would be clever or easy if the flat bed had some sort of cone shaped pins at each corner and the camper would have the coresponding shape built in so that when landing the camper back on to the bed it would be some what self centering/aligning and would also provide some additional resistance to side shifting while off-road when combined with your latch system.
I believe the main benefit I is see to your camper is its detachable nature. I have been studying what I think the most versatile rv would be and believe it to be the truck camper. In looking at what was available I was never able to find anything that would fit in the gvwr and still have a reasonable amount of payload leftover to legally carry passangers and be able to tow a fair amount. I believe that your light weight construction methods have solved a serious problem that other camper manufactures have just been ignoring by miss quoting weights and only using dry weights when the campers are likely never used in that fashion and are almost guarantied to be overloading every chassis they are put on.
In contemplating how to build something exactly like what you have here with no real skill set to do so and generally just mulling over what I would do if I had the ability, I came up with the idea that I would be interesting to be able to drop the camper at a remote location and have the flatbed truck be equipt with a fresh water tank and grey/ black tank so that once your base camp was set up the truck could be taken in to town so to speak be able to dump what needed to be dumped and refill what needed to be refilled to provide for an extended stays remotely without having to break everything down.
The cool thing about what you are building here is the ability to have an rv with the dual purpose of having a truck to use during the week and the freedom to roam with the vehicle once camp is set up on the weekend, be it 4wheeling or in town exploring. With the lite weight characteristics you can tow almost any type of hobby behind, be it a boat with the ability to launch without breaking down camp, SxS, dirt bikes, horses or work equipment. No other type of RV can do it all as well as the truck camper. Sorry it was so long but I definitely feel that what you've brought to market is REAL BIG game changer.
Outstanding work. Outstanding.