Tkhawk
Adventurer
I bought a 4 gauge 20' long jumper cable and cut the ends off. I ran it from the jeep battery back to the rear bumper. I used an Anderson connector to connect to the trailer battery.
Smittybilt Scout Trailer Reviews?
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Midnightsun, you wouldn't happen to have any plans or measurements for this kitchen written out, would you? This would probably push me over the fence on buying a trailer. Gotta show it to the wife, but I really want something like this to drag around behind my 2015 2-door Willys Wheeler.
Midnightsun
Adventurer
I really don’t have any drawing I just winged it. There is an Australian guy called drifta and i Used his ideas for a pull out kitchen , google him and check out his designs he’s very cleaver. I started with size of my stove and built around it. Kept the length and width to my big slider in rear and kept my height the same as my fridge so I could run a shelf across top of box but wound up using a bungee net that worked better. I feel that the kitchen is your most important area. Try not to over think it ( there is a lot of that on this thread ) I hung a 2 gal water roto pac on back door that works great for hand pump for sink , I just stick hose from hand pump in rotopax and I have water. If I need hot water I’ll heat it up on stove. I do have water heater up front but don’t see the need to pipe it back to rear , I use it for shower only. If you really want actual measurements on my kitchen I will take the time and get them to ya
Midnightsun
Adventurer
That is awesome !! I have tree line tent and same fox wing and have been scratching my head for awhile on how to redo the tent poles. Great job I’m gonna steel your idea. How do you like your tent? Less than 100lbs I love ours
YYCRod
Member
Glad to provide ideas that help. My tent is the Treeline Ponderosa Constellation 3-4 person model. I think it weighs in around 145 lbs. I just returned from a 9 day trip into the southern Okanagan region of B.C. The trailer towed perfectly over 1,200 mile trip. We had one night where there was a windstorm with torrential rain. We were completely dry inside. Very solid tent.
If everything goes as planned I will pick up a new Scout this Thursday, and immediately take it on a 2000-mile road trip. I would really like the ability to raise and lower my RTT while on the road. I don't want to bend the top of the trailer or tweak the rack, do you think something like this, with a 2x6 would work? The RTT weighs about 150 lbs.
https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Max-5001-5044-Motorcycle-Scissor/dp/B0196PAZ1S
https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Max-5001-5044-Motorcycle-Scissor/dp/B0196PAZ1S
I used a scissor jack to lower my rtt today and it worked great.
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Perfect, exactly what I was thinking! Thanks!I used a scissor jack to lower my rtt today and it worked great.
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Midnightsun
Adventurer
I raise and lower my tent with linear actuators. I been scratching my head about this for awhile and decided to dive in. I got 4 -50lb. 10 inch actuators and remote box from progressive automation in BC Canada. Good stuff. But they work flawlessly. Very smooth quiet and fast. I can raise my tent and awning 8 inches in about 5 seconds. Im supper happy the way it turned out had to do little cutting here and there but I finished in a day no welding few bolts and cutting disk on a grinder to cut 3 inch slot on front of tent rack that slide down inside main square tubing. Very sturdy up or down really don’t need pins anymore. All 4 corners raise with in 1/8 of inch of each other. So now it just push remote button up or down
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Midnightsun
Adventurer
Look on progressive automation website. I saw 150lb 3 inch lift. Or are you saying 3ft?
Very cool!