Recent content by skersfan

Try contacting the US Army, Marine Corps, All NATO forces and check on the torsion axles. Every single trailer below 5K is using torsion axles, the last I heard both AlKO and Dexter were being placed on all 10K and above. 10K and above do come with air bags on the torsion axle. But above 10K...

Free range most on here have the feeling that their trailers have to have 60% of the weight in front of the axles, normally making the trailer very very tongue heavy, you might tell them the speeds you have towed this trailer fully loaded and after a week of camping. How easy it is to lift the...

Not a Cargo trailer but special built to do just about any trail and survive. No longer build them, not a plywood trailer. steel framed, never a failure on a single one of them. You can build one, just don't use spring suspension, go torsion axles and buy the right weight axle for the trailer...

Don't remember if I have posted in your thread or not, but I love these things. I have had two, and if I were to ever build another off road trailer, it would be based on one of these. Go for it, build it up to what you want. Does the Aliner have aluminum upper frame. I know one of them...

I went from tent to roof top tent to trailer with roof top tent to tear drop with outside cooking, with awnings all around. The wife hated each and every one, could never make her happy and want to go with me. I no longer camp on the trail due that, so I would suggest talking with the other...

Alko axles have been around a very long time. I used one of the first in the Southern California off road market in 1985. They were a great axle, torsion type, but very expensive. Exclusive on high end trailers such as Air Stream and Holiday Rambler. We put them on our Pro Trac Desert King...

I would message Ace Brown, he had a Cassita he lived out of basically for a few years. Not the greatest off road trailer, but he drug it into some tough places.

Yea I tend to get a little carried away with my builds. LOL I think with the Expedition you should be good to go, another small problem I did not think about prior with a tandem is, and it does happen, if you have to disconnect to turn the trailer around, it will be almost impossible to do it...

I have drug mine on some pretty tough trails, it weighed in at 2400 pounds with 40 gallons of water, 10 gallons of fuel, propane, fridge, generator and the like. But all of the weight was counter weighted, you could lift the front end without problems, yet tow it at 90 mile and hour. All of my...

trailers normally do not take the brunt of the punishment, so having giant matching tires is not a requirement. But most of us end up that way anyway. Get a good tire with the strongest side wall you can find in the price range you want to spend. Ripping a sidewall is where most trailer tire...

So for that trailer to work properly you are going to need a 5K payload. Dragging 7k off road is not an easy task. As OCD states, overlanding is different than off road trails, normally first started by motor cycles, then grown to quad and jeep trails out here. Engineer Pass is a flat road...

When I was doing this, I spoke with a lot of guys from down under about their trailers and what type of obstacles they ran into normally. Washboard, water crossings, but really nothing what hard core trails are in our southwest. I pulled mine through carvacre and showed them a video of about...

Looking for nothing but trouble, on a serious off road trail. Flex twist, double punctures from side rocks, extra weight. Tongue weight can be corrected by design.

The trailer will tow better if the hitch of the trailer is 1.5 inches lower than the rear of the trailer, if it is properly balanced. I would raise yours some, but it is not imperative to be level, but the ball should never be higher. Most of these trailers are built so all the weight is too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpsy1161R8Q Here is mine on carvacre trail. Not the roughest section. Your trailer is not designed for serious off road trails. Fire roads and the like you should be fine. The last drop on the video is a about a 24 inch straight down drop. This trailer is a...