Kenskill side profile

[Craig Burrowes]

Can anyone help me out here?
I have started building a teardrop that I am basing on the Kenskill design.
I have made my chassis on the basis that it will be 10ft by nearly 5ft.
To get down to the finer details fo the design I have been trying to work out my side profile measurements off the various photos available but it is proving difficult to get it exact enough.
(yes you are right. why have I already built the chassis before getting this sorted??).
Can anybody provide smoe scaled drawings of the side profile?
Also, I have set the chassis up so that my total ground clearance from the bottom of the floor is just 10 inches. Is this too low? It won't be going off road.

[Arne]

10 inches is tight when going out of gas stations, driveways, etc., if they are higher than the road you are pulling onto. If you stick with 10", try to go out at an angle, never straight out.

I use photoraphy software to increase and decrease image size to get the right size to work off of... lots of free ones on the net.

[Gage]

Something like this?



And you should have at least 12" ground clearence. As you can see below. Mine looks to be sitting pretty low but there is 12" to the sides.

[Craig Burrowes]

Am I missing something here with this diagram?
I have seen it before but I am not sure what you mean by the big and small squares?
There appears to be different sized squares throughout???

[Craig Burrowes]

Wait.
I get it now!
Thank you for this.

[bledsoe3]

Craig, Try this. http://www.angib.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/t ... nskill.pdf

[Craig Burrowes]

Wow.
Can't ask for better than that.
Thanks very much.

[Gage]

Sorry Craig, the photo didn't scan that good. I found a profile shot of a kinskill and then streached it to 10' x 4' (scale). Then grafted it with 12" lines first and noted those. Then a little darker I went with 6" squares and then along the edge I added 3" spaced lines. After you cut and belt sand it, it won't be exactly like a Kenskill but as you can see from my teardrop, it'll be close. By the way, a Kenskill is only 9 1/2 feet long.

[Craig Burrowes]

Looks like I'll be doing a little tweaking here and there.
These replies are certainly helpful.
Just one question I have of you.
How much head room do you have inside?
All these designs seem to give less than 4 feet and then there is the thickness of the mattress.
I'm not tall at 5'8" but I just wonder whether that feels a bit claustraphobic or whether should try and squeeze out another couple of inches?

[ARKPAT]

If you think you might be a bit claustraphobic.

You might try some brooms and chair with a sheet to approximise the interior size you will end up with. Even better if you have some cardboard boxes would be great to place together to get an idea of the space in real scale.
it is hard to get a feel for size on a paper or a image on a computer. The real thing is always better.

You might want to check out Dav and Louise site
HERE for some ideas.

Pat

[Miriam C.]

Craig the best way to see if you are going to be comfortable in a TD is to make a mockup out of cardboard or put some sheets around your bed at home.

To measure for height: sit on the floor and measure to your head. Add the size of the mattress. That will let you know how much room you have above your head.

My husband is just over 6' and he would have been ok with 4' high. We went with 5 to be sure. Made it much harder to get materials in one sheet.

[angib]

Can anybody provide smoe scaled drawings of the side profile?

Kenskill Profile - it's in the 'Design Library' button above.



According to what I've been told, a Kenskill is 9'4" (112") long, so that's what the profile shows. But as the profile has a constant-height section in the middle, you could just move the ends 8" further apart to get a 10' trailer.

Andrew