VileKyle Wrote:I would have brought you along with my old off-roading group. Sadly, I don't live near those guys anymore and I no longer have my Jeep. Maybe I'll get something cool like that again someday.
Thanks Kyle, having had a Jeep, you will understand my passion.
Go look at my profile pics, there is a bit more about my Landy's equipment & upgrade there
I can comfortably live, off grid, out of that rig, for as long as I can keep food in the 50L compressor driven freezer and water in the 60L water tank on the roof.
Constant power is from a 200A solar panel and 2 x 88A high capacity battries, and a third 110A deep-cycle battery as reserve.
Getting off grid (and out of the dwang) is a cinch, not only perminent 4x4, I have a locker on the rear diff, and 2 extra fuel tanks.
2 toilet options, 1 cat hole / trench and the other chemical and a solar heated shower take care of ablutions.
Lastly, primary energy supply is guaranteed through no less than 3 medium sized propane cylinders, reserve supply is 6 hiking size cylinders and the niftiest hiking cooker around.
Of course, there is always fire as a deep reserve, and I know how to build a double hole fire pit and a double log slow burning fire.
The trailer-tent, which is a, very rugged flat-bed trailer, on-top of which I built a 400mm high full length & width length storage box on top of which is a 1.4 x 2.6 rooftop tent, heavy duty military spec ripstop canvass, under a uv protected (15 year) fly sheet.
The storage box houses my river rapid inflatable boat and gear, a large assortment of course water fishing equipment, an electric trawling motor and hiking gear.
Domestic gear is inside the roof-top tent, packed down the one side in ammo-boxes.
When camp is set, an awning extends over the top of the tent, creating a third layer of canvass which extends 1.5m off the side.
The parking configuration shown is my road-side " urgently need to have a road-side poop", which is on the inside V using the chemical loo option inside a instant pop-up toilet shelter.
I know you guys have a HUGE teardrop community, and that was basically mi insperation, but, 2 problems have always thawarted my previous trailers, caravans ant tents.
1) I go solo, so if I get tired while driving, I need to sleep. If I have to put up a roof top tent, I'm no longer sleepy, but am still tired.
2) A caravan / teardrop configuration does not give me the packing space for all my other gear out of the way, until needed.
I cooked up the trailer early one morning after the 01:00 widdle-waddle and 2 weeks later I had completed the build.
I am quite proud of it, it isn't pretty, but it caters for everything I need, and will be posting pics on the American forum tiny trailers and teardrops where I'm also active