Canadian Made Metal Pop-top Trailer

Appreciate the pictures on this site. I'm working on a trailer of my own built out of 14gauge material. Materials were cut by water torch and bent in a shop for the cost of $2200. Has taken about one week of welding. The tub is as wide as my Jeep, and 7ft long. Will sleep 4 people and hopefully tow better than an anchor.
More pictures to come.


Lid ready for welding


Welding the wheel cover/seat


Finished passenger side


Both sides welded and sitting up


Squaring up before welding floor


Welding the floor


Lid on top of the tub - both fully welded and square


Roof rack adds support to roof and holds the weight of a boat


Torque flex axel with electric breaks


Sitting on 33x10.5 tires

Nice! Wish I had those mad skills.

Looking great!

Wow :drool:

Nice work. Definitely subscribing to this one.

awsome :drool::drool:

Thanks for the encouragement, working on it tomorrow, should get the suspension finished, bottom side of the floor painted and tipped oner onto its wheels. If the day goes realy well I will get the front rack finished and work on the pully system that lifts the roof.

Very nice, love the pockets in front of, and behind the wheels!

Fax

swamper said:

Squaring up before welding floor

Welding the floor

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Very nice job!! I love to see the neat designs come together on this forum. In the pictures above, what do you have in mind for the opening in the end panel? Something clever I'm sure.

Mike

Looks good. From the pictures it almost looks as if you could set it right on a pickup truck frame if the measurments were right. Just like Adventure Trailer and Campa did with their trailers.

More pictures

Monday was a good day. We got pretty much everything done that I wanted to do. We'll try to get back at it evenings this week.


Too many hours spent building the pulley assembly for raising the roof


picture of the rear step - hope I don't lose it on the first pebble I drive over, it might be hanging a little low.


3 inch angle iron used to support the wheel assembly


bottom side of the front deck


wheel alignment


wheel alignment done, wheels in place, ready to turn it over


the rock/shrub guard is almost done

forgot to say, the pockets up front will be used for storage, possibly for propane boiler to create in-floor heat?

The opening in the end panel is for a hinged door for the pop-top.

Sweet build! The in-floor heating is a cool idea!!!

Nice work. I like the looks of it. It looks like its gonna be heavy too...

Any updates. Looking good.

more pictures


lifting mechanism


holes for tailights


rock/shrub guard done


fenders & doors on




Roof finished welding - reading for polishing and paint


10,000lb winch serviced and ready to go


step to get in - hopefully it gets past the first rock in the road.

If anybody's interested in the plans, I have the engineered drawings in a pdf format for $50