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They came from Vintage Technologies. They were almost $400 each.

Spike and buffy

Top of Redcone Peak, Grant, Colorado. Overlooking Webster Pass

I was forced to go to a shrink for pain management before multiple surgeries. After interviewing me he called me compulsive, like it was a bad thing. He thought I was weird because I took it as a compliment.

I love the country up your way. Hope to go back next summer. If you want to start a trailer, we should talk. Tom Houston 970-391-8927 tom@testengineeringconsultants.com

That is considered a mild trail here. My wife of 42 years routinely is my co-pilot. Actually she surprised me with my XJ for my birthday 22 years ago. She's a keeper. She used to get out and walk the hard parts, taking pix and video was her excuse. As she got older, she said she didn't have...

Around here trips get pretty rough and you are rarely within cell phone service. We try to be prepared and carry quite a few spares. My question is what do you do for tools and what spares do you carry. I even carry a 20lb CO2 bottle for airing up and down and running air wrenches. Jeep...

Around here trips get pretty rough and you are rarely within cell phone service. We try to be prepared and carry quite a few spares. My question is what do you do for tools and what spares do you carry. I even carry a 20lb CO2 bottle for airing up and down and running air wrenches.

Another pix on a trail called Green Day in Moab Area BFE. Before you ask, yes I went down it and then back up. [/URL] Trips/Expeditions around here get a bit rough sometimes.

Here is a pix of my rig without trailer on a trail here in Colorado called Radical Hill. It is just east of Breckenridge. It is an 85 Cherokee with 4.7L stroker on 35's w/lockers and Dana 44 axles front and back.

Many people simply paint the exterior but I used contact cement and glued Filon to all the exterior. Filon is kind of like Formica but is fiberglass based and is what is used to cover the high end motor homes. Getting the weather stripping angle formed to the radius and welded up required...

The trailer is designed to be a four season trailer and the 1” space provided is filled with rigid Styrofoam. Once the interior walls were covered, the task became to weld a lip that followed the hatch radius for the weather stripping to mount to and then lay the base for the interior cabinets...

Lots of cross members and pieces were added to the upper frame. The location of the doors was finalized and also framed in. The next step took a bit of figuring and planning in order to get the interior ply installed. The sides were fairly easy, but making the sheathing follow the contour of the...

My PIA Engineer self, wanted to build a hitch that could handle all the extreme angles required. A standard trailer hitch ball just does not provide enough movement for the places I go. Many people use a military style pintle hitch but I don’t like the noise and sharp shock you get with those...

Having welded the sides up and adding some structural bracing, I added a storage area to the front. A straight trailer tongue would not have lined up with the Jeep’s hitch. That combined with wanting to be able to remove the tongue for security and storage reasons, I added an offset to the...

I designed and fabricated a single link utilizing a spherical bearing and a pan hard bar. The axle is supported by dual airbags and dampened by shocks. The shocks are what make it ride so nice. The airbags make it infinitely adjustable ride height. In tricky extreme off camber situations...

The frame is 2x2 square tubing with 1x2 cross stringers. Getting it precise, square, and flat is important. Once welded, each weld on the top was ground down flush. Due to how much I run in the mountains I used electric brakes, even though the trailer weights less than 1000 lbs. Here is...

"Welcome to my build thread". My purpose was to design from scratch and build an offroad “teardrop” trailer. While technically, the shape is not a pure teardrop, the same purpose is the goal. This was built as a prototype for a possible product. My design goals were to be able to pull it on...

Here is the build thread over on Expedition Portal. http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/77927-quot-Old-Man-s-Toy-quot-offroad-teardrop-trailer I am an engineer and an experienced fabricator with a full shop. I didn't buy a trailer, I started with a pile of steel on the garage floor. It...

Introducing myself here. My name is Tom Houston (old_man). I am an engineer and a compulsive fabricator.