Cargo Trailer Conversion Toy Hauler - The Finished Project - Tiny House? 

Thanks. Also, please subscribe and add notifications. I have ordered another cargo trailer and starting another build in March 20201. I will be making a series of how to videos as I go for all the major systems (solar, electrical, plumbing, electrical, insulation, etc.) Will include layout and etc..

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Glad to hear your shoulder is doing well enough for you to work on your CTC. When you get into it, if you have any questions and I can help, feel free to ask. Actually, I may be in Nebraska in June to see my son and grandkids. My son lives about 2.5 hours southwest of Omaha. Will know next week if I can go.. I will be traveling with my 6*12 if I go. CWS will be going on while I am there for sure. I plan to take my grandsons camping and do some fishing. Just going to hangout. No projects on my son's house planned this year.

You are going to be really close to us. We're right by Offutt AFB.

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Thanks Rob. You must be from Massachusetts or New England somewhere. Only place I know where "wicked" is used. :-)

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Thank you. Good luck with your conversion and thanks for you Service!

Yvonne many, thanks for the kind words. Best wishes for your build.

Thanks! Best of luck for your build. Glad I can help.

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Thanks! An d best wishes for your build! A BBQ sounds great!

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Thanks so much for the feedback. I really appreciate that. Going to be out in the dirt soon! :-)

Thanks. It works great. Building another camper now and doing something similar.

@@donsdoityourself2547 if you are looking for more content i would love more details on the A/C setup.

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K5IJU, I am KE4EVL. Maybe I will catch you on the radio sometime. I just got an MPAS 2.0 for the camper and I tried it out yesterday. I had a QSO with a HAM in Slovenia on 40M and the state of Maine on 20M with my Yaesu FT-991A at 95W from Florida. Nice portable ops! Best wishes.

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right on with the LiFeP04. I ordered 4 3.2v 280aH cells from China along with a BMS. Building my own 280aH bank for about $550. They will weigh about 200lbs less than my 4 Golf Car batteries. I cannot wait to get rid of them.. but they are what I could afford at the time.

@@donsdoityourself2547 Yeah lithium iron phosphate can be expensive. They are also very sensitive to overcharge and undercharge, temperture, etc... Make sure you do plenty of research. I never bring my cells above 3.45 volts for cyclic use. And CC floating the batteries is not a good thing to do, you will need new chargers. If you care about your cells, balance them when they are new, get victron smart solar charge controllers and a lifepo4 charger with adjustable voltage. Totally worth it though. im never going to mess with lead acid again. Im actually thinking about a lithium titanate car battery.

Lead acid batteries? After working with commercial generators for 15 years I have seen just too many of them explode, for absolutely no reason. I am not saying lithium ion are any better, but they would be if you could recycle them. Hopefully someday while you're sitting at your table one of them doesn't just go boom. Just replace them every other year and they shouldn't be a problem. Or replace the 4 of them for a couple of 8 D heavy duty deep cycle batteries, at $280 or so they're expensive but you can safely use them for easily 5 years before replacement.

@@thebusterdog6358 Lithium ion is also known to be quite violent, yes. But LiFePO4 is much safer in that regard. They rarely even catch fire if punctured at full charge

I totally agree, didn't make it to the end. The music was loud and awful and why have it if you're talking? Lots of You-tubers do it ,why?

Thanks Patrick. Actually, the wiring wasn't too bad. I home run it all to the cabinet during the build process. After the fact it would have been difficult.

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This is a bit heavier than an RPod for sure... but cannot get a motorcycle in an Rpod.

Yes, I can lower the bed over the bikes and I have step ladder to get into bed. That was one of the key things I wanted to was to be able to pull off the road and have full use of the trailer without unloading the bike(s). I could not find a trailer this size that I could do that with. A big reason I built my own. I wanted a functional toy hauler as small as possible and to pull with the F150.

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@@donsdoityourself2547 I'm a cabinet maker by trade.yoo might be able to cut out the window open ings with a quarter inch thick router bit .it would be pattern bit with bearing on the bottom.if you don't mind aluminum chips flying around

@Clint Will Yes, that would work, I'm sure. Others use various cutout tools such as a rotobit. I am not that skilled with the router or the other available rotary cutout tools, so I went with what I was most comfortable with since I rarely do this.

@@donsdoityourself2547 I wish had your electric al skills, you wouldn't happen to be a electrical skills.I have a old pop -up ,that l want to convert to toy hauler/camper.l have ten 4x8 sheets of aluminum,for roof and sides.Thanks for making videos,very helpful.

@@clintwill8715 Thanks again and glad I could be helpful. I was an Electrical Engineer in my early days. Electrical is the easy stuff for me. Cabinets and finish work challenges the most.

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Yes I have. The trailer is a little nose heavy with the 240lbs of golf cart batteries up near the front and the front kitchen. The weight distribution hitch is needed as the tongue weight is exceeding 50lbs. It is actually closer to 900lbs.

@@donsdoityourself2547 you mean 90lbs...900 lb tongue weight would cause havoc on your truck.

Thanks Gia. Yes, that is a HAM Radio. You can build one of these for about $14,000 or more depending on how you provision it. I don't build these for others .. just a hobby for me. Good luck.

Hi Warren. I didn't have any particular experience before I built this. I am an Electronic Engineer and pretty much just a handyman type. I had built another trailer previously (very basic) and learned alot. I built another smaller 6x12 trailer last year I use off road. Each one gets a little better as I learn. I used alot of RU-vid videos and Ideas from other such as on TNTTT.COM (Cargo Trailer Conversion thread). I had the cargo trailer built to my specifications which was just the exterior coloring, interior height to 7.5ft, and the RV style door. I did everything else myself. Learned how to make the cabinet doors, plumbing blackwater/graywater tanks, and etc. The electrical part was easy for me in this case. I designed the bed lift after some trial and error. At the time I built this I had roughly $14,000 in it, but that was 6 years ago and prices have went through the roof as you know. It would probably be another 20% now? I built the 6x12 (my 3rd build) last year and prices were rising on all the building materials. I learned to weld on that one and went back and built a steel frame for the bed in the 7×18 trailer you saw. It is lighter and stronger now. I still use the 7x18 trailer when my wife goes camping with me, otherwise I take the 6x12. I did make a series of videos on that build as I went, so it may be helpful to you for some ideas. I will edit this note with a Playlist link. Good luck. ru-vid.com/group/PLqUKt7Ln0hFNMA_k1kDILS3k5PErFmn_B

No, sorry I do not build or have blueprints. I did this with just an idea in my head. Here are some details in the video below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qD2oaDzrtSs.html

I do not have a compiled list. I got the holding tanks, windows, oven, sink and etc. out of a truck camper being scrapped. Ideally if you can find an old camper being scrapped, you can recover a lot (even wiring). That is how I started and the rest came from Home Depot, Ebay, and Amazon. You may have to have custom tanks built if you cannot find any to fit between your floor joists. Here is a video og the build. I have video of the bed lift build also in the links in the video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qD2oaDzrtSs.html

Thanks. I am not sure on the music. There are "canned" soundtracks in the Filmora App I use for video editing. I just selected it based on I like the sound.

Yes I can. You do have to manage the loads however, for instance, you don't want to have the AC running and the fridge, and then try to microwave something. You would need to to turn the AC off briefly. All small stuff and AC works fine. Just have to be careful if you want to run microwave or electric hot water. Those take alot of power.

Thanks.. I am building a 6*12 now myself... just to get to more remote places. I had the floor joists put 16" on center and a triple tube tongue... I did not change the frame tubing. It is standard. It is harder to fund 15" wide tanks.. but you can get them.. that was the hard part for me.

@@donsdoityourself2547 Thanks for the information!

@@donsdoityourself2547 I built below deck storage boxes in my 6x12 build. Also did an axle flip and put it on 31” mud tires.

I built my 8x16 starting in November 2020. My 1st trip was Daytona Bike Week in March 2020. It was pretty spartan but it worked. I have a Twin xl on one side and my Harley the other. You have finished yours really nice. I still have to add my shower bathroom where I will park my composting toilet too. I went to Sturgis with it and it worked great. Thx for sharing, R

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@@donsdoityourself2547 what is the track actually?

@@jonpearsdp Jon, It was something I got from Wondershare Filmora's library as I was processing the video. I am not sure anymore which one it was. Sorry.

about $14,000 to include the cargo trailer and then all the pieces and parts to build it out. I did use some parts I salvaged from another old camper (windows, holding tanks, sink, and a few other items). That did reduce the cost some also,

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I am building a new 6*12 as well. Will just have enough room for my dirtbike. For HAM antennas, I have a NMO mount for 1/4 wave VHF and UHF, and I carry a Chameleon MPAS 2.0 portable antenna system for HF. The NMO mount is on the roof near front door.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. The remote does time out and the relay is deneregized. I do also have an interlock installed that shuts the power down if the bed raises too high and keeps driving... it stops about 18" from the ceiling so it should not pin me in any case. The final weight is ~4,000 to 4,500 lbs. I weighed it on some scales fully loaded for a trip with the Victory Kingpin (~700- 800 lb)and full tanks of fresh water and I was close 6,000 lbs so the empty weight is just a guess based on what I know the major payload items to weigh. The GVWR for the trailer is 7,000lbs but I also run Load range D tires just for plenty of margin. My F150 has a V8 and trailer towing package and is rated for 9,200lbs towing so no problems and tows well. You'd be pushing the limits if you are rated for 6,000 lbs. I'd say that there are alot of things you could do to reduce the build weight that I did not do, as that was not a major issue. Just running with empty water tanks saves 512 lbs.. When I am going to a place with water source, I only put in about 10 gallons for flushing toilet and etc. on trip.

I was wondering this as well.