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Posted by: cole-x
OH Where to start without pics. I have just bought a Fuji digital camera, just have not figured out how to post the pics to a page yet! I'll give a little descripition of my trailer. My camper is made of 2x2s and 5/16" plywood. The measurements when opened up are 8' wide and 7'6" long and 5'6" high inside. When folded up the width of the wheels are 51" to match the bike's track. The width of the camper when folded is 32" wide 5'6" high and 8' long. When folded at 32" it allows you to see past it when backing up and gives you 22' wide x 5'6" high x7'6" long inside to store your gear in. Why so long, I'm 6'1" and I hate to be cramped plus it gives you room at the foot of the bed to put your gear. Why so high, At 5'6" high inside you can change your clothes while almost standing. Why so wide, The beds are 32" wide, one on each side, there is the 22" space between the beds to put your feet down and for the dog to lay. Between the trailer and camper this unit weighs in at around 400 to 500 pounds, just a guess! My 500 Sportsman has no problem towing it, as does my buddy's 450 Honda. The camper is well balanced and has about 50 to 75 pounds tongue weight to give the bike traction when its alittle slippery. This was typed at the blazing speed of 4 words per min. so thats enough for now.
Posted by: cole-x
The camera isn't the problem it's the 52" monitor that you would need to view then!Just havn't figured out how to down size them. Yes we do alot of camping spring, summer, fall and winter! It would probally average out to 1 and a half times a month, maybe two times a month. Fall and winter it's the best time, there isn't any BUGS. We have been out in -3 F wheather, we have watched the deadwaters have about a foot of ice all the way around them before we went to bed and woke up to them completly froze over! We have been out and woke up to a fresh foot of snow in the morning! A site to behold... I sometimes go out with my buddy and his wife, with my wife to of course. Most of the time it's just my little fellow Colton [23 months], my wife and I, o ya and the dog! For winter camping you have to be prepared for the cold. Layered clothing, good sleeping bags and proper propane heaters that are made for enclosed tents are must have items! In the camper I have a piece of plywood that goes between the two beds to make it one large bed for the three of us can keep each other warm at nite, no dirty thoughts the kid is with us!img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif"border=0> About the typing, you use two fingers! Thats twice as fast as I type!
Posted by: cole-x
Hey guys if I don't add my buddies camper to this he will POOP on me for years! He has a camper trailer that is alot lighter than mine [150 pounds] it just takes longer to set up, mine takes 12 miutes, thats not a joke! Back to his. He uses a factory built tent on it, it is a 6'x6' tent, the tent looks kind of like a chuck wagon. Kind of got off track here, back to the trailer, it's about 4' long and 2' wide when folded up with a 48" wheel track to match his Honda 450. When the trailer is set up there are two 24" x 6' beds [plywood] that pin onto the side of the trailer and a piece that goes between the two beds at the head of the trailer to make it 6' long in the middle. The poles slide into the outside frame of the bed and are fibre glass so they bend in a hoop shape. Then the tent it's self is thrown over the top and snapped on under the bed, the trailer is the floor. the floor was cut out of the tent when the camper was built. A good little camper trailer, just alot more work to set up and look after, you have to make sure the canvas is dry when you put it away. Alltoys my camper is made entirely of 5/16" plywood and 2x2's. When I close it up thats it. You will have to post pics of your tracks. Hope I can figure out what I'm doing with this camera so I can post the pics! Later Guys
Posted by: cole-x
Just about have this downloading pics to the net figured out. I had the res. of the camera set to 2400 instead of 640, which made the photo's to large on the net? Does this sound right? What are the best sites for pics? I think I'll switch this to a new topic.
Posted by: cole-x
I'll have the pics up for late tomorrow or the next day. Finally figured the camera worked!
Posted by: cole-x
Thanks Biggy but I have it figured out now. Was going to pull the trailer out this morning but they where calling for 4 to 6" of snow so I left it in the garage. It's snowing alittle now but they say it's only going to be a couple of inches now.. Dam I wanted to play in the snow!
I have camping pics but you can hardly see the trailer sitting in the trees. I think I'll post them anyways, you guys will just have to look close to see the trailer. Now the next thing will be learning how to post a link!
Posted by: cole-x
Just trying this out. Click on the link below to see a few pics of the camper. I'm going to take it outside in the sun and get a few good ones when it clears up outside.
check the links in one of my other post below, they work.
Posted by: cole-x
Hey Alltoys thanks, The camper works out quite well it's kind of like taking the 28 travel trailer with you instead of a tent! Another note this trailer rides on a bogie wheel axle, thats a four tire setup that pivots in the middle between the tires, each tire only carrying 25 percent of the wieght. The tires are the same ones as on my snowmobile trailer, 18.5x850x8 I think. this makes for a stable trailer when the going gets rough. This setup tows much easier than a single axle. You'll see when I take more pics. The roof is made of 5/16" plywood, everthing on the camper is either 5/16" plywood or 2x2s. The trailer is made of 2x2 thinwall tubing. The axle is made from 2 Volkswagen Rabbit rear axles that were narrowed and shortened to make 1 pivoting bogie wheel axle. The bolt pattern on the fatboy wheels and Volkswagen are the same.
We don't usually take gas as the farthest that we have gone is 10 miles from home, but I would put it on the front rack to put wieght on the front end to help steer. I put my water jugs up there now.
Posted by: cole-x
Guy's I've added a few more pics of the camper folded up. Had to take it out to the shop and get it ready for the weekend. camper pics
Posted by: cole-x
MJSTX Don't worry about the patent pending, I've don't think I,ll go through the rest of the process. It would run into the thousands of dollars, 20,000 dollars to be exact. It would take alot of campers to make any profit! There is still some more pics to come, The trailer is hooked to the bike right now, just waiting for my buddy to decide. It's going to snow tonight so we are just waiting for the updated forcast to come out. If we go I'll have some pics of the camper folded out from different angles.
I'm going to draw something up with measurements to help you guys out. It might take awhile but I'll finish sometime. You guys Email me so I can have your address in my address book and I'll send out the sketches when Im done. Here is a link to a site with a trailer that almost matches mine to a T, Trailer
HO HO HO and a Merry Christmas...Vaughan
PS never mind New Years I'm still hung over from last year! BR>
Camper pics
Posted by: cole-x
I'm not over wieght, I just like being heavy(260), it gives the bike added traction!
Posted by: cole-x
Juke, I thought you were going to try to sell me a diet plan or something! I would love to have made this trailer out of aluminum, but my welding skills are somewhat limited to being a rod burner! I have looked at the Featherlite trailers. They are made of aluminim, even the sides and roofs! I can buy all the materials at four times the cost of wood but it would last forever! It's a shame we all have to live so far apart at times!
Juke heres my email
Heres a link you might want to check out!
Mountain Goat Trailers
Camper Pics
Posted by: cole-x
Add a name to the start for we know who you guys are talking to please.
Posted by: ftwflh
cole-x could you send me deataled scetch and directions on these and a pic.I am very interested in building one.THANKS Brad<ftwflh@yahoo.com>
Posted by: MJSTX
I am planning on doing some ATV camping this summer and was just hoping that someone out there would have plans on building or know of a suitable trailer that you pull behind an atv to use for camping? The trailer that I would be interested in would be light, fold down but yet hold enough camping gear for two nights. When erected it would sleep two adults, probably have canvas sides with screens and atv tires. Any help would be appreciated ........MJSTX
Posted by: MJSTX
Cole-x: Thanks for the information and I would love to see a photo once you have figured out how to use your camera. Do you do a lot of camping yourself? I would like to use this camper for remote fishng and for a bit of fall hunting. I know what you mean by typing, this message was typed using the two finger method.
Thanks again for the info and hopefully for he photo .........MJSTX
Posted by: MJSTX
Cole-x / Alltoys: Thanks for the information and interest on this topic. For my trailer I plan to convert a small utility tailer that I bought a long time ago from Canadian Tire. It pulls well behind the quad and has a 4'x5' platform with 4"x8" wheels. I would like to replace these with larger/fatter tires for more floatation. Like yourself Cole-x, I probably will build it out of 2"x2" and 1/4" plywood. I plan to heat it with a Kerosene heater in the cold weather. I hope to keep the whole thing under 500lbs. This will be a great winter projects. Thanks for the information guys and if you have other great ideas please post, I am sure there are other camping nuts out there.
P.S. Sorry I can't help you with your camera Cole-x, I can barely program my VCR to work properly, I'm a TCI. (Technicaly Chalenged Individual!)
Posted by: MJSTX
Cole-x : Thanks for all the photos and the information, your camper sure looks great! I have put all your photos in a file for future reference, I hope you don't have anything patented since I plan to use most of your ideas for my camper. Congratulations on a job well done.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ......... MJSTX
Posted by: bluekodiak
Check out the following website if you want ideas for your quad trailer.
WWW.KAMPAROO.COM
Posted by: biggy
cole you might consider finding or buying a program called paintshop pro. it is a great editing program and will rezize your pictures easly . If you need it I can get it for free for you off the net. (:>þ
Posted by: alltoys
Hello MSJX from Thunderbay,
Cole-x from Nova Scotia, its nice to see fellow canucks on this site and I too would like to see your trailer camper sounds interesting Cole-x. I too am somewhat of a builder with an expertise in welding and machining and I am always interested in things that work for camping especially. I would like to now if you made your own canvas tent for the camper, bought one that fits or made the walls out of something else. You both have the some of greatest country in the world next to Alberta of course just kidding really!
Would you guys be interterested in a set of tracks for a quad I'm working on right now should be good for muskeg and snow.
For one finger and two finger typists you guys do pretty good! Keep the sunny side up.
Kawi 650 2in. lift, 28in outlaws
Honda 450ES, 27in Vampires
Posted by: alltoys
Rawdon Nova Scotia
Nice job looks pretty good and the picture looks good too. You even have a door on it excellent, what does the roof consist of. Good project, I do some running back into the bush and have always taken a tent with me and your unit would work very well. When you are travelling to your camp do you put any fuel in your trailer or on the bike. I ask this because the gas smell can fill the camper and is hard to get rid of. Either way you have a good set up and it didn't cost you an arm and leg. Congradulations on posting your picture for a first time may there be many more. When I get my track system up and working hopefully this January I will send you some pics send me your E-mail privately and I will save it to forward you later.
Posted by: mich660griz
cole,
I got to tell you, i think your camper is AUSOME!!!! i go camping all the time and i think that yours is the way to camp for real!!!my version of camping is dragging my 30 plus foot camper to a sight, then going out for the day, only to have to return to the sight at night. now, i aint complaining about mine, couse i love it, and so do my kids, but to have it on your back, and pitch it up when you feel likeit has to be great. It seems to me that you might want to hook up with juke, and mountain goat trailers to try to put together an alumium one with a patent. it would be a shame if someone with money allready took your idea and made a fortune with it. well, great camper pics!!!
my pictures
Posted by: juke
pic must be in jpeg format then reduce the pixel size to around 30 pixels per inch..........you can resave the pic in jpeg format if its not already.........
Posted by: juke
Might be able to help you on weight problem!!!!
Posted by: juke
no on the trailer......i fabricate a lot of stuff from 1" square aluminum tubing...all joints are welded......give me you e-mail and i can send you some photos and show you what i make.....ramps,docks,racks etc.... i am not a big company ........its just me and my garagei just enjoy doing this type of work
Posted by: BluRock
Great pictures...Wish I were there...I like the style...How far do you travel on your ATV?
Posted by: horace
I would realy like to see these photos I'm OK in the shop but my brotherinlaw is a wizz and can he weld, and nothing is ever to his liking every thing must be improved on or tweeked.
