Interesting shakedown, looks like your vision of this trail rig is fairly accurate! Congrats! Just narrowing down your clearances should be fun!! Thanx !
That's like the coolest trailer fur off road I have ever seen that is very awesome can't wait to see it finished the rear steering on that thing is awesome man
Glad you got to trail test the camper after soo much hard work. Looks great and did well, like your idea about the small wheels on each side just in case.. it'll be heavier when finished, any thoughts on adding breaks to it. Someone should sponsor you on batteries and solar panels.
Very cool love it. My Grandparents had a camper that style, when I was a kid in the 60s. They always took me and my brother camping growing up. Great memories. 😊
Need an electric motor to hook up to the camper axle so you have 6 wheel drive..... mount it and have hooked up to the pinion with speed controller that way it can climb obstacles not just get dragged over them
Yo! Another crazy addon for those severe off camber spots: An extensible 4 foot tube on each side of the rear crossmember to prevent tipovers. Have someone push down on the upside as you transit the critical point. Whadda you think?
Don’t know if you have ever seen it “ Volkswagen Beetle 5th wheel trailer “ mounted on the roof and has incredible mobility could be a decent concept for this too
Can you add trailer brakes, and did I hear you say on a previous video that fabrats was going to help you with adding some sort of drive power to the trailer??
Well its pretty cool empty. It was definitely pushing you going downhill. If you load the trailer up with a bunch of weight I think you gonna have some problemas bro. Trailer brakes?
Departure angles make this build something that will be in all the next OVERLAND trailer probuilds... not to mention getting power to the axle.. The round camper is so RETRO... very cool..
Totally deserves some time in the public spotlight. While not essential, it would be super easy to electrify the rear axle. It would take some software trickery to get the proportional drive power to match what you want given trailer angles, tyre size or ratio differences etc, but absolutely doable. Could do it on an Arduino or something super cheap and simple. Surely someone on here can code it for him. I can't think of a way to power it from the Deathstar effectively and without making a cluster.
Some moab rollers of sorts for the trailer would be mint! Maybe one big tube over a smaller tube kinda like a steam roller so its low profile and spans the whole leading edge?
Mike I was thinking, if the axle in the trailer had gears in it you could put a pulley on it and mount an alternator on the axle to keep your battery charged. Just like on the old racecars. It looks great and didn't get close to scraping.
Yea! A Shakedown Cruise! Riding in the mobilehome! My best friend had bought a house for $1, but it had to be moved. She walked along the road filming. Her husband was on top, tethered to the chimney, chopping branches and filming. I rode inside filming. We were all laughing SO hard, we all about wet our pants! From then on, we called her house "the mobilehome". ❤ RIP Liza ❤
Lookin goood!!!! Now, some leather seating, disco lights, wet bar, round bed....woooo. I skipped my meds today. Anyway, loving it!!! Hey, Ethyl! Turning into a great crawler! Thanks guys and Peace Out!
You should totally put electric wheel hubs on your trailer for some pushing and braking assistance. It would be a nice complement to the rear steer on it!
A trailer break mounted on the pinion output of the campers diff might be a very good idea, a bit tricky to enginerd with good fine control and get safe if it's just a open diff though..
Nicely done! I'm pretty sure there will be a few new builds like this coming, it is way cool. I also love the "It's working!" Star Wars reference, so appropriate for the Death Star!
