Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Hello all,

I've been sneaking around this forum for a while, gathering ideas, and I've finally started my own conversion. Figured I'd go ahead and register so everyone can see my progress as well.

I have a 6x12 single axle ramp door trailer, that I've had for a while, and I cut a hole in the roof, added a Fantastic to it, and added a latch so I could lock the door from the inside. As of now, that's all the work I've done to the trailer.

I spent one night in it, with a cot and a catalytic heater last November during hunting season. Wasn't too cold out, so I only had to run the heater for about 15 minutes all night.

I recently acquired a damaged popup trailer for $100 from my uncle. He hasn't used it in two years, and it had some roof damage, so I figured most of it would be scrap. Once I popped it up however, I was glad to see that only the outer fabric was damaged, and some of the wood on the outer walls. I was able to scavenge the refrigerator, furnace, inverter, water tank, sink, manual pump, lights, stove, battery box, cushions, mattresses, shore power line, and a lot of the hardware so far.

I plan to make the CT sleep four. The Mrs & I, and our two boys. I don't need a bathroom, so I'll be saving that space. I don't really need a sink either, but since I have all the equipment for one, I'm going to go ahead and add it. I basically need sleeping area, and cooking area. A dinette would be good too... but I'm not sure I'll have enough room for one. We'll see. The trailer needs to retain as much cargo space as possible too. I have a small four wheeler, and a motorcycle that will be taken from time to time.

Here's some pictures of the popup disassembly (click the pics to head to my build blog w/ more pics):

Looks like the pop up was great find!
What bed layout are you going to go with?

I recently was given the opportunity to dismantle a cab-over camper and salvage all I wanted ! Amazingly, sum a the parts fit my Euro trailer ! With enuf left over fer another build !

Partsman wrote:Looks like the pop up was great find!
What bed layout are you going to go with?

Right now, I'm planning on doing two queen/king-ish beds stacked over one another at the rear of the trailer. While stowed, the top bunk will lift to the ceiling, and the bottom bunk will either lift to the top bunk, or split in half and fold flat against the walls. I'm leaning toward the latter, with the thought of including a dinette with the bottom bunk. I did also salvage the table from the popup which has the "1 pole" setup, and was used for the dinette there as well.

canned o minimum wrote:I recently was given the opportunity to dismantle a cab-over camper and salvage all I wanted ! Amazingly, sum a the parts fit my Euro trailer ! With enuf left over fer another build !

Yeah, I was hoping to get the inverter and maybe some of the gas lines/ electrical stuff... I definitely got my $100 worth.

No real work on the travel trailer yet. I told myself I needed to fully dismantle the popup first. I've pulled everything out of it that I thought I could use, and I'm going to turn the popup trailer frame into a flat cargo trailer. It will replace the 4' x 8' flat trailer that I have, which is much overdue for some repairs.


Hit the link in my signature to see more pictures of the popup during its many phases of dis-assembly.

Haven't gotten to work on the CTC much lately... but there was an incident.

My cousin borrowed my trailer to move home from college, and a tire blow out kinda ripped the fender & clearance light off when it blew.

Got the repair parts from a site called etrailer. http://www.etrailer.com. Was a great experience, and I recommend them for trailer parts.

Full story on my blog, but here's some pics of my new parts:







The E-Track pieces weren't damaged by the tire, I just added them to my order to get free shipping.

Here's some pics of the damage to the trailer.

I hate it when something I borrow has trouble I know it can be fixed but it takes time and it just sucks............
glad you are on your way to getting every thing back to normal.

pete

Thanks Pete.

I've gotten a bit stalled, since my little 4'x8' trailer needed a new floor. I promised myself I'd finish that project before starting another.

More updates to come. I hope to wrap up the 4'x8' this weekend.

6 months later...

Been a busy summer/fall. Finally shored up some more time & funding to work on the trailer again.

Click the pic for more.