although it may not be tiny, it will be unique.
My interest in building a trailer started over a conern with staying both warm and secure from the native bears while deer hunting. Last year I tent camped from around 15 Oct through around 15 Jan. That is ... I set up the tent in Oct and took it down in Jan. I (we) camped almost every Fri-Sat night (I think I only missed 2 weekends) and both my sons complained about getting out of a warm sleeping bag into the open early dawn air inside a cold tent.
My studies of various models where piqued by a guy name Paleotool and his great "Vardo". I like the simple (to me) design and his use of basicly a warm and dry interior, using a wood stove. his design is "dry". In that is has not source of water, other than what you have in a bottle or bucket.
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In my quest for both warm and dry, you get kinda of grimey sitting around the fire and then hunting all day. We decided that some kind of shower would be great. Our deer camp does not have water or electricity, so we would need to have a trailer that had a way of moving water (pump) from an exterior water tank (or interior holding tank) and a way to heat it.
I looked any many methods, indluding just puting a pot onthe stove and use the battry powered shower pumps you see on the internet.
We search high and low and missed many great (not really) cheap trailers that we could clean up and use. A day late and a dollar short, is my apparent method of buying anything.
So, we finally gave up the search and found an interesting chasis for sale. this is an old Shasta 18 foot, not sure the year, but the steps say Shasta on them.
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So we got it for around $200, too much, maybe, but we are happy with it. the tale was that it belong to the sellers grand parents and some body broke in vandalized it so bad, they just busted it up and he kept the chassis for general use. it has sat outside for some time and all the wood is rotton or badly weathered. We started prying it up last night. But first we took many
to dosument the factory sub floor for reference.Today we are having a monsoon, so now real work to be done, so we get to do some planning.
cont
this will be a fresh build and we wanted all new plumbing, 
perhaps using PEX or is it PECS to be more winter tolerant. Also, we will have a portajon, so no need to have indoor toilet (for now), we will be using a bucket composter, if necessary. I do want some type of running water, so we will have a gray water direct discharge. Can't be anyworse than brushing you teeth and spitting the water and tooth paste on the ground. 
