bobhenry wrote:A few of us were brainstorming about a seperate dedicated mobile kitchen.
There are several occasions ol' what's her name and I take out the teardrop simply for a mobile bedroom and do not need the galley function. By seprating the galley feature from our teardrop I would be able to make a smaller lighter teardrop for sleepovers and simply couple up with the mobile kitchen for longer stays and cooking fests. Having owned a mobile catering business in the past I occasionally get requests to cook for family get togethers. With this set up I would even have the option of just taking my kitchen for the day outings. We are able to pull tandum trailers here in Indiana so it would be a bit curious going down the road but this just might be a great answer to where do I put all the cooking junk.
Looking for thoughts and input as to what was forgotten or places to improve on this idea.
So start
By the way, I like the idea of splitting the two trailers. I have on occasion wanted to have more kitchen stuff than what would fit in the galley of the TD. This would be an answer for a serious camper and a serious food preparer, but not wanting to bring it all every time.
OK. Here is my thought. Design the TD and gear/galley trailers so that they could be "clipped" or fastened together (when you are camping with both) or separated and used separately.
I have no sketches with this, but here it is. Maybe Andrew could come up with something???
First, have the semi-traditional TD/TTT pulled by TV. This would have traditional hitch, etc. THEN, add a second, smaller gear trailer using a mechanism like this.
The Cruiser Lift system with a single swivel wheel on the rear. This could be accomodated by simply adding another receiver to the back of the TD/TTT and having someone build you a mechanism that would go on the front of the gear trailer to allow you to connect it to the receiver. Of course, you could always BUY their trailer, as an additional and add a galley box on top of it. There aren't any good close-up pics of this system (don't want to make it easy on you), but it wouldn't be TOO hard for a good mechanic / welder to figure something out that would work and then to find a swivel wheel. It may even be possible to buy just the swivel wheel mechanism from the company. Then, all you would have to do is to wire both for lights and away you would go. You could hook the gear trailer up to a traditional hitch and use just it, or take just the TD/TTT or take both of them.
I'm going to try to post a pic off of their website.
You would have to put a a swivel wheel on the back of the gear/galley trailer, because the tires would scrub as you go around turns and cause too much wear & tear. This wouldn't be an easy one and would require some serious thought, but it is doable.
What do you think?
AJ
