Well after four days of reading I have finally reached the end of this amazing saga. I now feel like I know each of you. At the beginning I didn't have to be convinced, I just needed to know how and maybe sometimes the why. After 15 years of mobile food concessions, I have camped in everything imaginable (except maybe a foamie). For one night I even camped out under the tailgate of a pick-up on an air mattress, with a tarp thrown over to stop the rain that was coming down. I have also pulled an assortment of trailers and equipment many miles. But at this stage in my life, even though my TV has a tow capacity of 5000 lbs.... I don't wanna pull that much.
I think the main thing I don't want to do is hook/un-hook that heavy carp. And I live in a 36 foot fifth wheel so I can testify to the build quality. Older is generally better than new but I still had to make a lot of modifications to it. And I let someone else take the depreciation hit. I will say in it's defense, it's a whole lot less maintenance than a house, but it's only me so I don't need the space. I voluntarily down sized when I figured out I was only living in 250 sf of my 1750 sf home. And it's not moving so that makes for less maintenance.
I traveled many miles but it was always about business, not about the sights. Now I want it to be about the sights, I want to just meander around and see all the things I missed chasing paper.
To reach that end I decided I could build a tiny, light weight trailer. That thinking is what eventually lead me here. To an amazing group of people. I have to applaud what you have accomplished.
I have built plenty when I owned a house, and I have reinvented many things on this 5th wheel. But I have never built a TT or TD. I have a friend that worked for Fleetwood, building trailers for 25 years. He has already said he would help me. He just doesn't know yet what we are building it out of. Fortunately I know he will trust my judgement and listen to me. The only time he didn't listen to me was on a storage building kit and it came out wrong just exactly the way I said it was going to. So he may think I'm crazy at first, but he will trust me when I say we are building out of foam.
Now it's on to the read build threads and decide on a design. Then get something on paper. Maybe make a model. Hopefully I will be ready to build after July 4th. Yes I know that's the hottest time but my friend is undaunted by 105 degree heat but let it get 65 and he's looking for thermals.
BTW... I just love all of the smiley here......
<<< the future me!!