Hey Guys-
Let me first say I love this site, while my wife and I arent exactly looking to cross Africa in our truck we do ride horses. Now I know you are all asking yourself why the hell would horse riders be looking at out site, well it's simple for me, I'm looking for a very specialized custom truck.
What I want:
A medium duty truck (F650, C5500, M109 Duece :sombrero: etc etc etc) in 4 wheel drive with a camper built onto it. The reason we need this is we do endurance riding so we travel a long way from home to camp in a field and ride a horse 100 miles in a day, nuts...yes, fun...to us. We really like the commercial class c motorhomes in the smaller range, say 21 feet. We love being able to get up from the passenger seat and go stretch out in bed or make a sammich while heading down the road. Problem is we need 4x4 because we camp in big fields or way down gravel roads in the middle of no where......so then we thought why not convert a standard class c to 4x4. Well that option is ok, but it isnt great for hauling and it's not very rugged, it's also hard to take to the store for milk if you need it while camping. Then we said well lets convert one to 4x4 and tow a horse trailer that also carries a small car or SUV, thats a very serious consideration for us. The ultimate would be a ruggedly built MDT with a camper box on it towing a trailer with horses. The camper would be compact enough we COULD squeeze it into the back of a grocery store parking lot if we needed to....it would also have the benefit of having plenty of towing power and brakes. Also should mention while something like an Earthroamer is cool, I certainly dont have $200k to drop on one so budget is a concern. (Isnt it always)
Basically I'm here just to get some opinions and ideas about what you guys think we might really need/look into.
Thanks,
Josh
Let me first say I love this site, while my wife and I arent exactly looking to cross Africa in our truck we do ride horses. Now I know you are all asking yourself why the hell would horse riders be looking at out site, well it's simple for me, I'm looking for a very specialized custom truck.
What I want:
A medium duty truck (F650, C5500, M109 Duece :sombrero: etc etc etc) in 4 wheel drive with a camper built onto it. The reason we need this is we do endurance riding so we travel a long way from home to camp in a field and ride a horse 100 miles in a day, nuts...yes, fun...to us. We really like the commercial class c motorhomes in the smaller range, say 21 feet. We love being able to get up from the passenger seat and go stretch out in bed or make a sammich while heading down the road. Problem is we need 4x4 because we camp in big fields or way down gravel roads in the middle of no where......so then we thought why not convert a standard class c to 4x4. Well that option is ok, but it isnt great for hauling and it's not very rugged, it's also hard to take to the store for milk if you need it while camping. Then we said well lets convert one to 4x4 and tow a horse trailer that also carries a small car or SUV, thats a very serious consideration for us. The ultimate would be a ruggedly built MDT with a camper box on it towing a trailer with horses. The camper would be compact enough we COULD squeeze it into the back of a grocery store parking lot if we needed to....it would also have the benefit of having plenty of towing power and brakes. Also should mention while something like an Earthroamer is cool, I certainly dont have $200k to drop on one so budget is a concern. (Isnt it always)
Basically I'm here just to get some opinions and ideas about what you guys think we might really need/look into.
Thanks,
Josh