Newbie from New Brunswick, Canada

[TFloyd]

I'm a tent camper, but my spouse and I fondly remember family trips in the campers that our Dads built many years ago.

I love my roomy tent, but we've not been happy with cooking on the often iffy picnic tables. We've talked about tag alongs, but our truck (a quarter ton Nissan Frontier) just doesn't have the capacity for hauling the kind of trailer that would provide the space our two-room tent offers.

I recently saw a teardrop trailer for sale on Kijiiji and I finally knew how to look for what I've been wanting to make. A websearch led to this forum and now I'm daydreaming of a teardrop, or at least a tail-gate sized chuck box. (Yes, I'm watching the thread about those with great interest.)

Thanks for being here, you inventive and generous lot of people.

[mikeschn]

Dream on! And welcome to the forum. If you can dream it, you can build it!!!

Mike...

[mandy]

Welcome to the madness. I bet you have visions of teardrops dancing in your head?

Have Fun
Mandy

[Lgboro]

You're at the right place for material to dream about teardrops. Some of the folks on the forum have modified tents to attach to their teardrop to allow for changing of clothes, etc. Hang around here long and I'll bet you end up building! The many thousands of pictures on the forum provide too much motivational and inspirational material to resist. Welcome to the forum!

[Roly Nelson]

Welcome to the forum. Now all you have to do is decide what you plan to build. Once you have used a teardrop, you may well never use that tent alone again. Check out the neat tears in the Hall of Fame section. What ever you decide to do, keep a pic record, ask questions and enjoy.
Roly

[TFloyd]

Lovely, warm welcomes. Just like good campers everywhere!

SOMETHING is going to be built in the next couple of years. I'm thinking of honing skills by starting with a well designed chuck-box to meet an immediate need, but I can really see us in a teardrop trailer eventually.

Back to reading forum archives and drooling over pix!

[BillandMarijo]

TFloyd,
Welcome to the forum. Take your time planning what you want and what you need. Planning is as much fun as building. Make sketches, give yourself plenty of time on your build. Dont be afraid to ask lots of questions because there is alot of good people on this forum who would love the share the experience of their builds.
Enjoy,
Marijo

[Kristi Foster]

Welcome Newbie from Canada. I used to live in the snow belt in Western New York but now I live in the sunny south. I have camped next to the Saint Lawrence Seaway in the Fall and it sure was cold. It is definitely close to the end of tent camping season up there. Enjoy the forum, there are great ideas to be found here. KF

[TFloyd]

It's been beautiful here so far for sleeping in the tent, but our holidays are over. Time to dream of next year, and the year after.

I dug an old home built utility trailer out of the garage today (see album) and started to imagine how it can work.

[Miriam C.]

Lovely, warm welcomes. Just like good campers everywhere!

SOMETHING is going to be built in the next couple of years. I'm thinking of honing skills by starting with a well designed chuck-box to meet an immediate need, but I can really see us in a teardrop trailer eventually.

Back to reading forum archives and drooling over pix!

Well now if you build a chuck box that is the right size it can go right in your td body when it gets it's start.

to the playground TFloyd.