alaska teardrop wrote:From what you're saying, it seems to me that by distinguishing between wood & foam board structure (what holds it up & together) you've created a chart that is a three part equation. The size & type of structure helping to reference the weight.[/list]
As to tradition, small travel trailers have long been built, and still are, using metal structure: Modernistic, Tourette, Airstream, Five Wide Club, Dandan (Roswell), MeelisV. Current builders: EMiller, SST1100, Dean-Petley and most cargo trailers for example. Refering to any of these trailers as being built with plywood just isn't right.
And let's not forget molded fiberglass & plastic trailers.
How about typing in a question mark if you don't know? Someone like Gage is bound to fill you in. 
You have a good chart started & I appreciate that you've taken on this on-going project. Thank you, Sharon.
Fred
p.s. edited first post with added pictures per request.
Fred, you have a point. Even though they are a recent addition, singling out Foamies doesn't seem fair. Okay, I'll take out the "Ply or Foam" column and intersperse the foamies with the rest; and, if someone wants to find out what a particular person built, they can take the time to look it up. That makes it fair for the aluminum, ply, foam, PVC, etc. My apologies, folks. Under the circumstances, that's the best that I can do as some of this information was collected 4 and 5 years ago. (I'm running out of room for more columns. Maybe that will give me some extra space for another WxL size that might come up!) I'll modify the chart and repost it tonight.
Jdw2717 wrote:If you have not shown it yet it may be nice to have the high and low weights added below the average weight so people have the two extremes to compare. That way they could see how light they could be built or how heavy. Just a thought. Thanks for the hard work. I like to see where I "stack" up.
It is kind of interesting, isn't it?! There are a lot of correlations that can be made. Listing the high and low weights might be easier and more beneficial than figuring the median weight. I'm using an Excel spreadsheet to log this data and have set up automatic counts and averages because the data for the results changes with each series of entries. I may look into automating high and low weights...may need special formulas. I think, at least for now, the best thing for people to do is to look for their particular size concern and see who built lighter and who built heavier. I don't know how far I'm going to take this data yet. ...We'll see where this goes.
As previously stated, sorry about the small size of the print on the charts; but, it's the only way that I could get drafts to you, quickly, with all the information gathered to that specific date, on them. One clue that may help is that I have found that Internet Explorer shows the charts a lot clearer and bigger than Google does...don't know why. (If you're using a really small screen, you may be "dead in the water" when you try to look. ...lol ) After the entries dwindle, I may look into posting an HTML entry. Again, we'll see....
Thanks, everyone, for your input. Please keep you sizes and weights coming!
by Jdw2717 » Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:52 pm 
I may need to do a median weight, too...we'll see....
Mark (& Cindi) 
