What's is the Hardest Part of building a tear drop?

[Gage]

oops......can I say ass on the Forum??

Well if you had said Donky instead, nobody probably wouldn't know what you were talking about.

[Gunguy05]

I would honestly say for us it was/is starting!

We spent a tremendous amount of time and research... I mean A LOT of time reading mainly here, and other places on the web looking for the best way to do X,Y,Z.

People often look at our build and say, "that looks like it would be really difficult to build". I always tell them, no not really. No one part is really that difficult when you think about it (in retrosepct). It's just the sum of all the tiny details that makes it COMPLEX, there is a difference in the two though. Just break it all down and take it one step at the time.

I will admit, the front window and gasket were pretty gut wrenching though.

[Midget]

Water tight, Water proof, Water tight, water proof, Water tight Water proof!!!!!!!

Brian - What's water? Here in the central valley of California we don't have any of that any more. Only the stuff we pump out of the ground. I guess for us it would be how to prevent dry rot. BTW it's going to be 20 degrees over normal today.

We found something that had to be addressed immediately after the build. One was the weight distribution. Since we didn't follow the plans as they were printed, we ended up with a very light tongue weight. I remember when towing we could hear the receiver hitch bouncing. I solved this by relocating the battery from behind the axle to a box on the front. A traditional teardrop design usually takes care of this but if changes are made to the design you still need to be careful.

Bob

[Vedette]

Hi Bob
We seem to be on the same wave length these days.
Go to General Discussion and check out my post and time stamp on the Trailer Bounce thread, and compare it to your above post.
Brian
PS We too have had a warm and dry winter....but nothing in comparison to what you guys have experienced over the past few years.

[Roly Nelson]

The hardest part of building my woody, was overhearing the comments of my better half, telling someone, "You aught to see the dumb trailer he is working on now". Then, after a few months, after things started coming together, she was now telling someone, "Oh, you must come over and see the cute, little teardrop trailer that he has built". Other than that, no problem........except, how tall should it be, how wide, how curved, how heavy, how difficult it was to hide all of the metal frame, wheels, tongue, roof-hatch, and the fact that it now takes over an hour to just put gas in the car while it is in tow, especially if someone asks if it has a galley in the back. 'Gas-filling tip', never make eye contact, just look at the ground, and for sure, don't open the thing up for inspection. However, I love it, and so did she.
Roly, the li'l ol' So Calif woody guy