JeffRaines
New member
Hey guys!
First time poster here from the PNW. So here's our deal...
We(family - me, wife, 9yo and 4yo) usually camp as a means to an end... we're either out fishing, hunting, or maybe hiking in the area. With our fish camps especially, we usually move to new water every 2-3 days depending on how big the water is or how it's fishing. Our current setup is a regular tent, with mattresses and sleeping bags, and a kitchen setup. Needless to say, it's a pain to set up and take down everything every few days... and having use of our vehicle while out is pretty important.
This brings me here... I feel like getting a setup where the kitchen, tent and cooler/refrigerator is mostly all in one spot and easy to setup and takedown would be great. We're not huge on luxuries... we actually tried the RV life some years back, and it had me wishing for my tent and stuff in the bed of the truck because a huge RV is a pain to get into/out of spots(especially some of the spots we like to frequent), not to mention the massive hit on fuel economy... I guess I should mention most of our trips are not local - being anywhere from 3-12 hours away. Fuel economy is pretty important. I guess I should mention I know there's no free lunch, dragging a trailer of any sort will lower fuel economy. I'm just looking to be in between full size RV trailer(8-12mpg) and camp in the bed of my truck(20-22mpg).
I'm looking for suggestions. I'm a mechanic by trade, but I'm definitely no welder. I don't mind doing some work, but between my hobbies, family, work, and being a homeowner the last thing I want to do is come home after working all day and go back to work. What I'd like to buy is something used in good shape that's kinda set up, or buy a new trailer and do the setting up myself.
I come to you guys asking for suggestions because it seems like there's a lot of trailers available out there right now, but I'm sure some are either janky or horribly constructed. I seem to get on looking at a trailer thinking "this should work" only to find out after a bit that no, those ones are terrible for x y z reasons.
Also to mention, I'm not looking for something to go down actual trails/rock crawling/etc with. Most of our travels involve regular FS roads... some may be a little tighter/rougher than others but nothings truly technical or anything like that.
Budget - if I'm buying something that's already set up somewhat I'm cool with up to 10k, but if I'm buying something bare I'd want to be less than that. I'm not willing to make room in the budget for some of the bougie looking full setups... there was one I looked at that looked great but at 30k its a hard no from me.
Anyways, any suggestions or advice would be welcomed. Thank you!
First time poster here from the PNW. So here's our deal...
We(family - me, wife, 9yo and 4yo) usually camp as a means to an end... we're either out fishing, hunting, or maybe hiking in the area. With our fish camps especially, we usually move to new water every 2-3 days depending on how big the water is or how it's fishing. Our current setup is a regular tent, with mattresses and sleeping bags, and a kitchen setup. Needless to say, it's a pain to set up and take down everything every few days... and having use of our vehicle while out is pretty important.
This brings me here... I feel like getting a setup where the kitchen, tent and cooler/refrigerator is mostly all in one spot and easy to setup and takedown would be great. We're not huge on luxuries... we actually tried the RV life some years back, and it had me wishing for my tent and stuff in the bed of the truck because a huge RV is a pain to get into/out of spots(especially some of the spots we like to frequent), not to mention the massive hit on fuel economy... I guess I should mention most of our trips are not local - being anywhere from 3-12 hours away. Fuel economy is pretty important. I guess I should mention I know there's no free lunch, dragging a trailer of any sort will lower fuel economy. I'm just looking to be in between full size RV trailer(8-12mpg) and camp in the bed of my truck(20-22mpg).
I'm looking for suggestions. I'm a mechanic by trade, but I'm definitely no welder. I don't mind doing some work, but between my hobbies, family, work, and being a homeowner the last thing I want to do is come home after working all day and go back to work. What I'd like to buy is something used in good shape that's kinda set up, or buy a new trailer and do the setting up myself.
I come to you guys asking for suggestions because it seems like there's a lot of trailers available out there right now, but I'm sure some are either janky or horribly constructed. I seem to get on looking at a trailer thinking "this should work" only to find out after a bit that no, those ones are terrible for x y z reasons.
Also to mention, I'm not looking for something to go down actual trails/rock crawling/etc with. Most of our travels involve regular FS roads... some may be a little tighter/rougher than others but nothings truly technical or anything like that.
Budget - if I'm buying something that's already set up somewhat I'm cool with up to 10k, but if I'm buying something bare I'd want to be less than that. I'm not willing to make room in the budget for some of the bougie looking full setups... there was one I looked at that looked great but at 30k its a hard no from me.
Anyways, any suggestions or advice would be welcomed. Thank you!
