My first Looky Lou

[JamesW]

Tonight while I was working in my garage on the trailer, a man walks by in the alley with his dog. I see him peek in my garage and mutter to himself "He is building a custom trailer". He did not stop to talk or else I would have shown him everything. Maybe next week I will pull it out in front of the house and do some work there. That should attract a lot of attention!

[RC]

You got them where you want them! Keep plugging away at your custom trailer.

[ALAN GEDDES]

I may have mentioned this before. When you are done take take your trailer every where you go around town for a wekend. Be prepared to spend a lot of time answering questions and showing it at the grocery store and any place that you go. Put an information/reference sheet in the window and spread the word. Maybe we should have a national take your tear to work day. Finishing mine outside now where folks can see it and have had several people stop to look at it. Alan

[tdthinker]

I live on a busy country road and we have a three car garage where I plan to use the third stall to work on it. On nice days I plan to take it out on the cement and work on it where everyone can see it.

[Steve Frederick]

I was finishing up my galley while my wife had a lawn sale. Tons of lookers, tons of questions. Some even said that it was all wrong!
I was camping at a site 60 miles from here, an older lady walks up to the Teardrop and says" don't you live....I saw it while you were working on it".
It took an extra hour to get out of town for the first trip. We stopped for a sandwich for the road, and spent time answering questions from folks who pulled in from the road that passes the deli!
Don't build or tow a Teardrop if you're anti social

[Guest]

My advice is to keep the construction phase under wraps, behind closed doors... unless you have unlimited amounts of free time to answer questions. I've experienced this sort of thing with the boat building thing. Somedays, most of my "boat building" time is spent explaining things to curious onlookers, if my shop doors are open.

[Jimbo]

I figure when I ever get finished, I was going to print up a simple tri-fold pamphlet and take about a dozen along with me when I took it out. Have links to this site and some others along with some photos.

[mikeschn]

The tri fold sounds like a good idea. All I ever took with me was business cards with a few URL's and a tiny photo...

Mike...

[Chip]

Donna and I just printed up a mess of business cards with name and number on it,,if we really got to be on the road then we can hand them one and say call later and at least they will hopefully not feel like we didnt want to talk and answer their questions,,they easily could be someone that might be interested and become another friend,,

chip

[JamesW]

These are great ideas! I do plan on moving it out of the garage on some days. I like the attention.

[Julia]

Hi all,

Delurking here....we are building in our carport. Everyone on our dead end street has stopped for a look. The block party is in less than 2 weeks, so I will have to tidy up for that.

Last night we took it into town, and someone yelled "I like your trailer" as we drove past!

This thing is as good an icebreaker as a puppy.

Julia

[Larwyn]

My advice is to keep the construction phase under wraps, behind closed doors... .

Living and building in the woods may just have an advantage after all...!!
No doors to keep closed around the the TD, but out of sight all the same.

[mikeschn]

Hi all,

Delurking here....we are building in our carport. Everyone on our dead end street has stopped for a look. The block party is in less than 2 weeks, so I will have to tidy up for that.
Julia

Hey Julia,

That looks like a Kevin Hauser Cubby on a HF trailer. Is that what I'm seeing in your avatar? Feel like uploading some larger photos to your album here?

Mike...

[Julia]

Hi Mike,

Yes, it is Kevin Hauser's Cubby, but the trailer is a Snobear, which is what is available locally.

The plans were modified to suit the size of the trailer frame, so the cabin is a little bit wider, 50 1/2" inside(cause I tend to claustrophobia) and longer (cause Don is tall). Our son drew a different curve at the front, so we went with his idea. About all the work we've been able to get out of a 14 yr old.

The modifications have caused it to be a bit more expensive with odd sized material, but still trying to keep the weight down to enable my Saturn to pull it over the mountains. Daughter and I took it out for a week without the galley done, and the car did fine.

Julia - added the first building pics to my album

[mikeschn]

I tried to get a Snowbear 5x8 but apparently it's no longer available here in the states...

Your trailer looks good. Feel like uploading some photos to your personal album here?

Mike...