Anyone here been involved with building or using a teardrop trailer?
Care to discuss your experiences?
For starters, what would you specify for the steel frame (4'x10'), keeping in mind that weight can't be over 880 lbs. for the completed trailer. Maybe 1.5" x 3.0" sq. tube of what gauge?
I just fixed a hitch on a snomobile trailer that was less than a 1/8" more like 3/32" any way that thing is used to haul comercal snow plows and salt spreaders and heavy parts out to me for sandblasting . Most of the time it is overloaded . I was fixing the hitch because I moved it by chaining it to the loader and caught the jack in a hard spot in the mud that I was trying to get it out of so that the guys would not get stuck. I bent that thing down a good foot before I realised what was happening. Any way it is 2x4 x thin rectangular tube regularly hauling up to two tons some times more . I.5 x 3 would be good for a light trailer I would use more than a 1/16" tube though
Doug, try this link. They have plans. I am not affiliated with the site, but they do look interesting.
http://www.kuffelcreek.com/index.html
Doug,
here is that link I told you about.It may or not help but what the hay,hey? :)
FF link (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,13163.0.html)
I'm planning to build one, combining plans I've seen online with my own unique (weird) ideas. I need a 5 X 9 trailer, so I'm going to build one. Eventually, I'll build a tear drop top, but I'm going to make it a clamshell, hinged at the front. It will have two positions, and in the open position, I'm going to have a canvas insert made, so we can camp with standing headroom. I'll also be able to load a small antique tractor inside, so when we go to tractor shows, we can bring the tractor with us, then unload it for the weekend, and camp in the trailer. Ya might get old waiting for me to build it, though, if it goes like most of my projects! :D