Haggis
Appalachian Ridgerunner
Here's an update on the direction I'm going with the trailer...what starts out as a frame from a late 50s/early 60s M101...
Will become something like this rough sketch....
Missing is the fenders and the texturing of the main box is wrong as it will be made to approximate the sides of a log home, though I'll use upright log rounds with quarter cuts along their length for the corners instead of notching and passing the logs in the photo below.
Its a rough rendering but my sister Elizabeth passed on just enough of her Setchup8 knowledge to get me started. I'll tweak it more as I try to emulate her mad skillz. See, I used a "z" there' cause she's all Sketchup8 Xtreme.
There will be a slide out in the main box that will serve as a kitchen counter. The brown box in front of the main unit will be a removable water tank box so as it will fit into Fafhrd when we are running sans trailer. The front aluminum tongue box will house shower unit and camp items that are used more frequently.
I hate towing trailers (I do it all the time but I hate to tow when I travel), but this will allow us some flexibility as to be able to cater our set-up to the trip. Trips like the ARSES' floats where the camp site is permanent, we can set the Maggie on the trailer, unhook from it and we'll not have to mess around putting the RTT up and down every time we need to run the truck. It will also let us have the tent sitting on a trailer it will all be ready to go at a moments notice some summer weekend without us having to be bothered setting the tent on and off a working truck. But when we want to be free roaming the Maggie will get mounted to the truck and we don't have to be bothered with a clingy trailer.
I'm going to leave the orginial axles and wheels on for now as my plan calls for building this thing for under $500 bucks. If we decide it works for us then I'll invest in a custom axle and probably match the wheel pattern to the 6 x 5.5 Toyota one. That way I can tow with either Fafhrd or my wifes 4Runner and the Jeep will be the odd man out.
Of course this is coming from the unstable mind of me, so the whole concept could change on a whim or get pushed over a hill, doused in tar and set ablaze in a fit of frustrated angst.
Will become something like this rough sketch....
Missing is the fenders and the texturing of the main box is wrong as it will be made to approximate the sides of a log home, though I'll use upright log rounds with quarter cuts along their length for the corners instead of notching and passing the logs in the photo below.
Its a rough rendering but my sister Elizabeth passed on just enough of her Setchup8 knowledge to get me started. I'll tweak it more as I try to emulate her mad skillz. See, I used a "z" there' cause she's all Sketchup8 Xtreme.
There will be a slide out in the main box that will serve as a kitchen counter. The brown box in front of the main unit will be a removable water tank box so as it will fit into Fafhrd when we are running sans trailer. The front aluminum tongue box will house shower unit and camp items that are used more frequently.
I hate towing trailers (I do it all the time but I hate to tow when I travel), but this will allow us some flexibility as to be able to cater our set-up to the trip. Trips like the ARSES' floats where the camp site is permanent, we can set the Maggie on the trailer, unhook from it and we'll not have to mess around putting the RTT up and down every time we need to run the truck. It will also let us have the tent sitting on a trailer it will all be ready to go at a moments notice some summer weekend without us having to be bothered setting the tent on and off a working truck. But when we want to be free roaming the Maggie will get mounted to the truck and we don't have to be bothered with a clingy trailer.
I'm going to leave the orginial axles and wheels on for now as my plan calls for building this thing for under $500 bucks. If we decide it works for us then I'll invest in a custom axle and probably match the wheel pattern to the 6 x 5.5 Toyota one. That way I can tow with either Fafhrd or my wifes 4Runner and the Jeep will be the odd man out.
Of course this is coming from the unstable mind of me, so the whole concept could change on a whim or get pushed over a hill, doused in tar and set ablaze in a fit of frustrated angst.
