Excellent guided tour of your CrowsWing! Still, undoubtedly, the best designed, most fully equipped, impressive teardrop build I’ve ever seen. It continues to serve you well! Happy & safe travels!
We owe it to you and Jim for the idea of the knife rack and use of the busboy totes to serve as our sinks and awning storage. Maybe after living in our trailer for a year we will come closer to the number of days that you two have spent in yours! We wish you guys could come camp with us out here, you would love the scenery and the awesome hikes!
WOW! What an impressive build! You have serious building skills 😲👍. We built ours out of a 5x10 cargo trailer and it took us a few months. I can’t imagine how many hours you put into this! The cabinetry work is spectacular.
Wow! I want one! Please let me know when you can build it! Incredible work. Kudos to both of you, I watched it twice. So impressed. I was going to put an order in for a black bean trailer...but...you have spoiled me with your ingenuity, attention to detail and your design.
You mean the coupler at the hitch? It is a Max Coupler from CU Offroad. Here's a link to their website www.cuoffroad.com/product-lines/max-coupler-line/
Thanks! We've not had any trouble with dirt or sand getting into the cabinets. We do replace the hatch seals every couple of years to keep dust out of the kitchen.
Did you order the shell and trailer from a cargo trailer fabricator? If so, will you share the company’s name? We are in the process of designing our own 5x10 and your benroy shell and trailer are exactly what we want.
We ordered a custom sized bare frame from a small trailer manufacturing company. We had issues with them and I don't promote their business (if they are still in business). Everything above the running boards was built by us in our garage. We do have a book available on Blurb. A pdf form is available for $4.99. The last pages of the book contain the list of suppliers, all items purchased to build and what each cost us in 2012.
Thank you. Glad you like it! Sorry the awning is not for sale and we don't have a space to build one. Here is the link to the post about building the awnings in our build thread on the Expedition Portal expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/the-crowswing-offroad-teardrop-trailer.68693/post-1059148
Elizabeth designed and built them when we built the trailer. Here's a link to the post in our build thread on the Expedition Portal expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/the-crowswing-offroad-teardrop-trailer.68693/post-1059148
Awesome camper and great job on the walk through. I must say the music back ground was rather annoying choice. It would have been nice to share what the cost and time to build was. Thanks again for sharing.
It took one year to plan and one year of weekends to build. Total cost was roughly 25,000 but you can obtain a detailed record of materials used and their costs (circa 2012) from the link in the description to our book on blurb. Music is personal choice and obviously we do not share the same tastes.
Beautiful trailer. That axle seems undersized. It might be fine on pavement, but dirt roads will loosen it up and start to break things. I would upgrade to a 5k lb., or at least beef up the springs.
That axle is original to the build and currently has 38,000 miles on it. Its a 3500 lb axle with electric brakes. It's 10 years old and has in fact been off road (as well as washboards, forest service roads and paved roads), We've camped in many National Forests and BLM lands anywhere we've desired to camp with it all across the country. It's held up just fine and I see no reason to upgrade
@@flightofthecrowswing that’s awesome. I’ve seen them go the other way, do you know the make of the axle? I know you don’t want to advertise for the builder.
It's just a standard Dexter. Easily replaceable if something were to go wrong with it. We went with a really basic suspension and able just for that reason
I have a dream... that someone could invent a lightweight hardsided camper that collapses. I hate the fabric pop up campers! Why can't the walls be of solid material and collapse????? Lightweight and transportable/removeable, no affixed to a trailer, but can attach to any trailer...??? Light enough for a small 4 CYL car to put on a trailer and haul...? What materials would one need to build this dream camper? Basically a shell, but two walls have lightweight windows in them? ?? ???? anybody??? Buehler???Where are my great minded inventor people AT!???
There's a forum called Teardrops N Tiny Travel Trailers ( TNTTT ) it is full of great minded inventor people that build trailers. We suggest you go there and pose your question. You may find your answer
No, but we stayed at a Holiday Inn one night.... Thank you for the kind words. Before we built the teardrop we learned our skills by rebuilding a 1965 Chevy, a 100+ year old farmhouse (Elizabeth acquired her woodworking skills), modifying two Toyotas, and remodeling a newer house.
The backsplash is actually a couple of Virginia Gazeteer maps displaying the Rappahannock River. It is decoupaged onto the wood that builds the back wall. The cabinet painting of the Crow is a hand painted original artwork done by Elizabeth. She was also the designer and main wood worker for the teardrop.
