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Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 02:59:55 No.862118 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>862126 >>862249 >>862258 >>864493 >>864605 >>864608 >>864614 >>865362 >>866917 >>867984 >>868516 >>869250

Are teardrop trailers /out/ approved? I have access to all the tools I'd need to build one (including welders).

Should I? I also drive a fullsize truck so I might have other better options.

What do?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 03:16:51 No.862126 Report

Quoted By: >>864467 >>865932

>>862118
The only drawback is no stealth camping. Deal breaker for me.
Spent a cheap vacation last year going up the west coast camping near beaches. Would have cost me a fourune to be in those places legally

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 10:37:49 No.862249 Report

Quoted By: >>864179 >>865932 >>865945

>>862118
Screams, "Screw my doors shut with a drill driver and me inside and take everything I own.".

Why is that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:12:28 No.862258 Report

Quoted By:

>>862118
Wish i could get one but i dont have a car. Would be perfect driven around just sleeping on dirt roads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:16:49 No.862259 Report

Quoted By: >>862261 >>862265 >>865355

I know a guy from Alaska on memebook that has one of these he pulls around on his 4wheeler when going out hunting/fishing for days at a time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:20:28 No.862261 Report

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>>862259
fucking fuck yes. that seems like the way to go

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:52:05 No.862265 Report

Quoted By: >>862267

>>862259
> 650cc v-twin Can Am Outlander
> factory 1 5/8ths ball hitch

I could see that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:59:34 No.862267 Report

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>>862265
I used my ATV to tow my car out of a mudhole. No doubt they can pull a ~850lb camper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2016 17:36:54 No.864179 Report

Quoted By: >>875463

>>862249
so sleep with a shotgun and blast the door open if that happens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2016 23:36:45 No.864467 Report

Quoted By: >>864477 >>864487 >>864610 >>864758 >>865932

>>862126
So you're either poor or cheap, possibly both.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2016 23:46:01 No.864477 Report

Quoted By:

>>864467
You say that like being cheap is a bad thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2016 23:57:32 No.864487 Report

Quoted By: >>867963

>>864467
t. Wage cuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 00:05:18 No.864493 Report

Quoted By: >>870315

>>862118
>big ass tiers on an unpowered trailer axle
>fake beadlocks
>big ass OTG logo

Eh no thanks.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:22:03 No.864602 Report

Quoted By: >>864633 >>865784 >>869250 >>873952

A teardrop trailer doesn't make sense for me.

They're really just a raised hard tent that can have air conditioning.

Only they're smaller than a tent. Less portable than a tent, and less versatile than a tent .

If you have a full sized truck, a camper shell, aka truck cap, is cheaper.

Get a truck cap, put in an air mattress, and you've really got the same thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:25:16 No.864605 Report

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>>862118
Theyre stupid.
Kitchen is outside
Shower is outside
Just get a 12 footer...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:31:29 No.864608 Report

Quoted By: >>864759 >>865932

>>862118
>tfw these look comfy as hell
>6ft4 and not sure if i'll realistically fit

>would also want to make it fully bugproof because australia and that's expensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:55:26 No.864610 Report

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>>864467
are you stupid or something? Do you know what board you're on?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:57:44 No.864614 Report

Quoted By:

>>862118
I'd be more happy in my Ford Edge to be honest. Stealth matters a lot to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 03:44:23 No.864633 Report

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>>864602
Cozy/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 11:20:01 No.864758 Report

Quoted By: >>865946

>>864467

Dude, you ever travel before, or you just retarded? Just driving up and down the coast can be expensive as fuck in just gas alone. Throw in food, tolls, every thing else and it adds up. I did the west coast trip earlier this yr, in just a week I blew close to 600 in gas alone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 11:23:28 No.864759 Report

Quoted By: >>864774 >>865460 >>871120

>>864608

Same height as you and I slept in them. I found if I slept in them at a angle, I have enough room to sleep in them. So happy my wife is 4'10" or else it would of not worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 12:06:36 No.864774 Report

Quoted By: >>864781

>>864759
gonna feel sorry for your kids though m8.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 12:30:12 No.864781 Report

Quoted By: >>865007 >>867851

>>864774

Oh yeah, me too. My mom is only 5'2" and she gave birth to me vaginally. I was born close to 11 pounds, and my mom pushed so hard to get me out, it literally some how bruised her face for two weeks.

When my wife heard how big my siblings and I were when born, she said she was gonna get a c section, lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Sep 2016 22:48:20 No.865007 Report

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>>864781
nah I mean, there's a solid chance that one will be a manlet.

however, it would mean that they can enjoy your teardrop trailer more than you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 12:50:02 No.865355 Report

Quoted By:

>>862259
Yep, build it nice and light and that is easily doable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 13:06:02 No.865362 Report

Quoted By:

>>862118
>/out/ approved?
>Should I?

Why do you need random members of an internet forum's approval before doing something? If you want to build a teardrop just do it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 17:44:38 No.865460 Report

Quoted By: >>866984 >>869349 >>869855

>>864759
>So happy my wife is 4'10"
So she doesn't kneel to give head?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 05:14:29 No.865784 Report

Quoted By: >>865785 >>867965 >>873952

either do what >>864602 did, or get/build one of pic related. it has two inches of foam padding on all the top surfaces, and the sides are top-loading cabinets

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 05:15:36 No.865785 Report

Quoted By: >>865789 >>867965 >>873952

>>865784
here's the sleeping configuration. gives you shitloads of hidden storage too

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 05:24:38 No.865789 Report

Quoted By: >>865800

>>865785
fuark, thats actually very nice, good inspiration. i'd put it in a wagon for more breathing room though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 05:38:02 No.865800 Report

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>>865789
it would probably work great in a wagon. the rear hatch would leave you with a nice covered porch too

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 13:35:15 No.865932 Report

Quoted By: >>865935 >>865947 >>869243

>>862249
That's literally the most retarded paranoia.

>>862126
>stealth camping

More paranoia.

>>864467
More paranoia with a side of angst.

>>864608
Don't count on having sex inside one. They are cramped as all hell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 13:41:44 No.865935 Report

Quoted By: >>866426

>>865932
What do you have against stealth camping?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 14:06:32 No.865945 Report

Quoted By: >>866419 >>869852

>>862249
There are 2 doors you stupid fuck, drill one and OP goes out the other.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 14:10:34 No.865946 Report

Quoted By:

>>864758
>paying for gas

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 14:11:27 No.865947 Report

Quoted By:

>>865932
White middle class fear mongering is a powerful thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 03:51:26 No.866419 Report

Quoted By: >>869976

>>865945
>tfw someone drills all the doors and windows shut
>right after you ate canned beans

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 03:59:00 No.866426 Report

Quoted By: >>866437 >>866475 >>873543

>>865935
Are you in a warzone behind enemy lines?
Are you cooking meth?
Are you on the run from the law?
Are you training for the above 3?

Those are pretty much the only reasons to be stealth camping.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 04:07:17 No.866437 Report

Quoted By: >>867257 >>867858 >>868751

>>866426
Here is a reason, I love to vacation on the california coast but cant afford hotels or even the 75 dollar a night RV lots (which suck anyway) so I park on a nice quiet neighborhood street after dark and close up all my curtains .
No one can see any light.
I am snug as a bug watching the you tubes.
Wake up in the morning and find a nice breakfast place and splurge on steak and eggs because I just saved myself 50 bucks by parking on your nice street that I cant afford to live on.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 04:26:17 No.866449 Report

Quoted By: >>866623

If youre in AUS then get one thats made there. there are a number of off road trailers to buy there, made for the rough terrain aus has.
I would buy one of the aus off roaders any day before a tiny teardrop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 05:09:55 No.866475 Report

Quoted By:

>>866426

If you think these are the only reasons to stealth camp, that means you prob not get out much, at least to the outdoors. There is a lot of places you're not allowed to camp, or even be at, those places tend to be sweet as fuck places to be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 14:39:03 No.866623 Report

Quoted By: >>866998 >>868759

>>866449
These things, even for the cheap ones, are about $40,000 US. They are insanely expensive.

Just get a pop up camper OP. You can get one for like $1000, and sell in it 3 years for $995. They hold their value if you take care of them. They are warm, dry, and have anything you need. You can tow them with anything and only takes a few minutes to set up. If you want it to be more off road worthy, buy a smaller pop up, flip the axles (more ground clearance), and put on some black steel rims and a meaty off road tire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Oct 2016 01:49:11 No.866917 Report

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>>862118
Seems like you could get a twenty sevenish foot trailer for so cheap used on Craigslist. Why bother all the labor of making one? Just buy a used one in good condition, or fix it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Oct 2016 03:45:42 No.866984 Report

Quoted By:

>>865460

Pretty much no. Slight bend at the knees and she is set.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Oct 2016 04:11:39 No.866998 Report

Quoted By: >>867861

>>866623
You can build an offroad trailer for like 2 grand. I did, and it's nicer than those pieces of shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Oct 2016 20:49:55 No.867257 Report

Quoted By: >>867314

>>866437
Please tell more of your stories. I just got a travel position at work, starting December, and I'm doing this. White panel van, because they're everywhere and no one even notices them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Oct 2016 22:53:55 No.867314 Report

Quoted By:

>>867257
If they give you per diem , you are going to make a ton of cash sleeping in the van,
Add a high end 12volt fridge and a camp stove to cook your own food and you really save some cash

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 16:09:17 No.867851 Report

Quoted By:

>>864781

The bruising is from broken capillaries. Scary story anon, but short waifus are awesome so congrats.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 16:19:43 No.867858 Report

Quoted By:

>>866437

You know, I want to make a creepy serial killer van joke, but this actually sounds like a pretty cool setup. Any shots of the interior?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 16:24:47 No.867861 Report

Quoted By:

>>866998
2 grand for heat, a/c, hot water, stove, sleeping for 6, towable by a small vehicle, and doesn't look like a POS?

Seriously I'm interested if you have pulled it off, $2K seems cheap. A pop up is awesome for the price though too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 18:36:55 No.867963 Report

Quoted By:

>>864487
poor mundane life fag detected

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 18:38:38 No.867965 Report

Quoted By: >>867973 >>868453

>>865784
>>865785
looks good
how do you control condensation

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 18:52:04 No.867973 Report

Quoted By:

>>867965
Most caps have a window or 2 that can be opened. Not sure if his does.

You could also install a small fan in the ceiling. Would require cutting a hole in your nice cap though.

You could also Crack a window in the passenger compartment, then open the rear slider. Would allow airflow without exchanging much heat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2016 19:10:18 No.867984 Report

Quoted By:

>>862118
I would just put a camper shell on your existing truck. You can remove it if you don't want to drive around with it all the time.

All the advantages of a teardrop with none of the hassle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 03:45:53 No.868453 Report

Quoted By:

>>867965
i have two opening windows and a mil-spec desiccant pack the size of a large burrito back there. so far it's stayed pretty dry

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 05:29:54 No.868516 Report

Quoted By: >>868635 >>870070

>>862118
>Are teardrop trailers /out/ approved?

Sure, though at that point, why not just get a pop-up?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 12:55:05 No.868635 Report

Quoted By: >>868741

>>868516
Why are you so old and belly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 17:34:44 No.868741 Report

Quoted By: >>873284

>>868635
because he ages and eats too much
are you fucking retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 17:48:25 No.868751 Report

Quoted By: >>868987 >>869253 >>869858 >>870159

>>866437

What's the smallest and most economical europoorean car that you can comfortably sleep in? I was thinking something like a Volvo 240 or an Astra Estate Van.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2016 18:02:40 No.868759 Report

Quoted By:

>>866623
Holy shit that's insane what a joke. I was going to build one untill a "friend" stole my fucking trailer. I had planned to make the frame for the shell out of square stock and completely cover it in sheet metal and weld the edges so it would never leak

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2016 00:29:50 No.868987 Report

Quoted By:

>>868751
get an old vanagon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2016 12:51:42 No.869243 Report

Quoted By:

>>865932
>paranoia

No, just a desire to avoid fucking park rangers

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2016 13:07:12 No.869250 Report

Quoted By: >>873286

>>862118
They are in my book, I used to be a tent camper until I had a close encounter of the grizzly bear kind, after that I switched to a teardrop trailer for my sleeping accommodations, I can also use the back of my truck too if I don't want to drag the trailer with me, similar to what >>864602 has done in the picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2016 13:16:31 No.869253 Report

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>>868751
I saw a story of a guy back in the 70's who did a European trip from the UK to Italy and then on to a bunch of other places and he took the passenger seat out of his Fiat 500 and slept curled up on the floor.... personally I'd get a van/suv or even an old truck and use that instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2016 16:37:44 No.869349 Report

Quoted By:

>>865460

>wife
>giving head

Top kek, m8.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 18:17:26 No.869852 Report

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>>865945
>There are 2 doors you stupid fuck, drill one and OP goes out the other.

Two guys drill shut at the same time.

Checkmate fag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 18:23:49 No.869855 Report

Quoted By: >>869922 >>869956

>>865460
Your wife is a legal midget.... Lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 18:38:47 No.869858 Report

Quoted By:

>>868751
maybe bmw e30/e34 touring depending on your size?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 20:44:15 No.869922 Report

Quoted By:

>>869855
Cucked by a midget

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 21:42:43 No.869956 Report

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>>869855
> mfw I would fuck a hobitt

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Anonymous Wed 05 Oct 2016 22:25:58 No.869976 Report

Quoted By:

>>866419

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Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2016 01:48:32 No.870070 Report

Quoted By: >>871135 >>874138

>>868516

Why not just get a tent. Pop-ups are kind of a pain in the ass to setup. Bears and cougars can rape you during the night and in the end it's just a tent with a solid floor.

A solid walled truck camper similar to pic related would be more /out/. You could go with a commercial truck box shell and build an interior if you wanted to go more stealthy.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2016 05:01:22 No.870159 Report

Quoted By: >>870349 >>871135

>>868751
The front seats fold backwards and meet up with the back seats.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2016 14:29:23 No.870315 Report

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>>864493
Fake beadlockers and logo are dumb, but have fun getting stuck on everything with small tires.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2016 15:57:17 No.870349 Report

Quoted By:

>>870159

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Oct 2016 21:33:16 No.871120 Report

Quoted By:

>>864759
What a weird sex matchup. That's gotta be awkward af.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Oct 2016 21:54:07 No.871135 Report

Quoted By: >>871157

>>870159
Sup fagg/o/t
>>870070
Dat snorkel is pure sex

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Oct 2016 22:37:32 No.871157 Report

Quoted By:

>>871135
I prefer /o/tist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2016 16:59:27 No.873284 Report

Quoted By:

>>868741
fucking lol'd

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2016 17:02:19 No.873286 Report

Quoted By:

>>869250
Unless you have a pretty damn solidly built teardrop, I grizzly could still get in there, but I guess it would still give you more of a sense of safety.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2016 21:56:12 No.873543 Report

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>>866426
shittiest post ive seen in a while
dispersed camping is the only way to actually go camping

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Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 11:11:05 No.873952 Report

Quoted By:

>>864602
>>865784
>>865785
i just lay on the one side of the bed and stack all my shit on the other side. i have the linex liner and of of those foam carpet inserts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 17:19:48 No.874138 Report

Quoted By: >>874154

>>870070
Cougars don't go after people in tents. I bet you can't even find one recorded instance of it happening.

Bears can rip a car door off. They can get into houses that are boarded shut. Your no safer in a trailer than a tent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 17:48:07 No.874154 Report

Quoted By: >>874262

>>874138
>Bears can rip a car door off.
lol no

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 20:32:57 No.874262 Report

Quoted By: >>874273

>>874154
Maybe not but they can open them
https://youtu.be/m-yGDXHftp0

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 20:54:06 No.874273 Report

Quoted By: >>874312

>>874262
that dumbass left the door open and a bear got in and fucked his sissyboi shit up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 21:48:09 No.874312 Report

Quoted By: >>874355

>>874273
They can open doors and sliding doors on minivans. Mythbusters had an episode with a minivan and bear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 22:51:12 No.874355 Report

Quoted By: >>874366 >>874938

>>874312
lock your car then, faggot. do you live in an area without niggers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Oct 2016 23:18:17 No.874366 Report

Quoted By:

>>874355
can they open doors too?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2016 20:34:27 No.874938 Report

Quoted By:

>>874355
Go test it out with your own car. Put a bunch of delicious bear treats in your locked car and find out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2016 21:06:54 No.874953 Report

Quoted By:

Personally I'd just get a bed topper and insulate it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Oct 2016 14:25:48 No.875463 Report

Quoted By: >>875519

>>864179
Lol god shooting a 12g inside a tiny enclosed space

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE forever

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Oct 2016 16:05:08 No.875519 Report

Quoted By:

>>875463
sleep with ear pro. you can keep those ear plugs with the little string attached to your neck.

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