Okay, so I've received a lot of requests from people asking for a tour of my new
trailer that I've built. Just to kind of give you a background on it, I
saw another guy on youtube. His name is Clint with Seeking Adventure and I really liked his
trailer so that's why I decided to build one very similar to his. If you go check out his channel
I'll link it below and check out his trailer. It's really cool and very similar to what I made
so just wanted to kind of give that background that he's the brains behind it. He doesn't know
that I built this but um if you see this Clint I guess basically I copied you and I hope you're
flattered. So this is what we built. I put an awning on this side of it you can see in this
video that I'm how it comes out sometimes it's easier than others definitely a two-man job
uh you gotta be careful to not break it because this is kind of a cheap awning. I didn't go for
an expensive one. Ran some cafe lights, they run on USB. Everything on the trailer all the
power runs from the solar panel which charges a marine battery in the back which I'll show you
in a minute but this is kind of how it looks out here. It's a five-by-eight trailer and the camper
just kind of sits right on top of the trailer it eventually could be removed if I wanted it to be.
If we check out this side here i painted it with this raptor liner and i got it tinted to the same
color as the new Toyota Tacoma. I think it's called army green so anyway they can tint it
and i just had the auto paint store tint it for me. As you can see the light out here on this side
both sides have the same setup so there's lights on the outside there's vents on the outside
and then a door on either side these doors are from vintage outdoor technologies
in i believe michigan uh they were the only ones that had doors in stock and um really quality
door uh and they got it to me quick a little expensive but they got me the doors quick okay so
my wife is filming right now with our little boy so uh that's why you hear some baby noises and
maybe the occasional little baby hand sticking up uh this is the inside of the trailer here so like
i said there's a light on the outside there's a switch on the inside to turn it on and off i'll
let you guys get a look inside there there's an inside light on either side so there's light there
and then a switch underneath it and then also a usb port so there's usb ports on either side
to charge phones with um and then we can also plug in these cafe lights here eventually i'll have
another usb port in the back of the trailer to plug stuff in there as well um just a cheap vent
off of amazon if you're curious about any of the parts i'll just make a big list of parts down in
the description that you can check out on amazon most of the stuff is from amazon or i'll point it
out if it's not from amazon um all right so we'll go around to the front i got this trailer from
um a place in ogden utah called workhorse trailers they were the cheapest best new trailer i could
find this is their upgraded version so it has 3,500 pound axle on it and they put radial tire
tires on it so you can go 80 miles an hour you don't have to worry about it falling apart on you
like i said same thing on this side the doors have these sliding glass windows you can let
lots of air in there it stays plenty hot or cool whatever you're looking for we've been in
some negative temperature or some below freezing temperatures and stayed plenty warm the hardest
part is getting enough air flow through there so you don't condensate in the windows too much
yeah it's pretty comfy we sleep two adults baby and dog in here eventually if you look on the
back wall here eventually i have a shelf that i built i just haven't installed it yet it'll
be a shelf on a piano hinge and it will fold down and become a bunk bed for our for our boy
and we just haven't had to install that yet because we don't need it so coming around the
back here um this one's kind of a tricky thing i still haven't completely finished it the door and
everything kind of uh i've never done something like this before but it turned out okay but a few
shelves so we can keep all of our camp gear in the trailer so it's really easy to just get up
and go and not have to you know plan a big trip we can just throw some clothes in and hit the road so
over on this side you can see my my battery i think it's 105 milliamp hour battery and
the solar panel is uh renegy and this is the controller that it comes with it's just the cheap
controller and solar panel from um i got it off of amazon but it's renegy is the brand
and then my fuse box as well so i have everything kind of divvied off into different fuses so if
something blows it's really easy to change and eventually we want to put in some 12-volt plugs
like you have in your your car to plug in a heater or something in the winter if we need it
i i think it will stay plenty warm enough in there but if we need to we can run a little
heat blanket or something yeah this side of it um i'll show you the roof now so up here on the roof
it's kind of what we're working with i built this um roof rack out of this is unistrut and
this is just a conduit metal conduit and then these cool little unistrut fittings that fit
a three-quarter inch pipe on there really pretty neat i got this idea again from
clint with seeking adventure and uh i've had a couple people be like that is the
best idea we should make roof racks for cars out of that stuff this solar panel
it does plenty good enough for what we're using it recharges the full everyday no problem
we haven't run into any electrical issues always have enough power for everything
inside here the mattress is it's a queen size mattress
minus three inches on the side we cut three inches off just to have it fit better but besides that
it's a full queen queen bed in here doesn't look like it from the outside but it definitely is um
yeah so any questions you guys have just let me know in the comments and i will
let you know how i built something um my pro any processes i guess some things you might
want to know there's three quarter inch plywood on the outside that's my exterior wall and then
uh insulation plus an air gap plus a quarter inch or a little less than a quarter inch plywood on
the inside and i was just gonna leave that exposed but i actually didn't like the way it looked
so i primed it and painted it this light gray color turned out really well it's easy to wash
all of the seams everywhere somewhere everywhere wood touches wood we have
wood glued everything countersunk the screws um and then also use this butyl tape anywhere we have
holes in it you can kind of see it right there it was butyl tape it's used for metal roofing um
but we tried to seal this thing up as well as we could as good as we could to keep any
moisture and water out um you know i did some caulking around here not the best at it but
just want to keep any moisture out we can
on the front and the back wall and the floor we have inch insulation with foil on it foil
facing out and then on the side walls and then the roof we have half inch insulation
with that same foil facing out um yeah for sure let me know
in the comments anything else you're interested in knowing about the trailer
and i'll be happy to answer anyone's questions that they have
similar like if you want to know how i built this door i'll try and make a video on some of
the stuff that i did and talk through stuff plus i'd love to build another one and maybe sell it
at some point or rent it out but yeah it's been a really fun project and now i'm hooked
i just want to keep building more of them plus we've been camping every weekend since
i just finished it a few weeks ago and we had our anniversary and went for an anniversary trip to
just outside capitol reef national park
that was really cool spot uh you can see again i've got a link to that video in the description
and then also we went to payson lakes campground down in payson canyon last weekend and then just
yesterday last night we went up into the ocra mountains and i'd never been to the
okra mountains so that was a really cool thing um i think we're gonna have to go back there because
there's just so much to explore but one of our favorite spots we've been wouldn't you say yeah
riley's feeling a little left out so we should probably let him get some
face time that's our boy riley and he's been doing great camping five-month-old camping
went and camped in the yurt as well this winter when he was just a few months old
he's uh turning into a little adventure boy huh that's me that's me
okay well let me know if you have any questions hit me up in the comments let me know if you'd
like a specific video about how how i built something i can talk you through it uh and
then for sure check out our other videos about how we've been camping and other things we're
building and cool adventures we're doing together so let us know what you think see you later