Riptide9

Build it yourself. We have built 3 of these so far out of the garage from scratch. Each has 5x5 wheels, onboard water, power, and electric actuators to lift and level tent platform. Average cost $1500 without tent.

JRJKUS

That's pretty sweet for $1500. What did you use as plans?

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WhiteRavenRR

I agree. Very nice setups. I have a goal on learning to weld in the very near future. This may be one of my first projects.

ConroeJK

Very cool, the electric actuators to level and raise the tent is cool touch.

Riptide9

I wish we could say we had plans. LOL We just knew the basic interior dimensions and height we wanted. Threw some steel down and started welding and built up from there. Once we had a platform we figured out what width axle and then ordered it online. We knew that we wanted the tent in the lowered position to be below the roof of the jeep and the trailer to be no wider than the jeep to help on tight trails.

Riptide9

Yes, we tried a scissor jack at first which didn't work very well and then the actuators which worked better but they wouldn't rise together exactly the same and would bind a little. The trick was to use heim joints at the top of the lift poles as seen in the pictures. This keeps any binding from happening and lets you angle the tent in any direction quite a bit. So no longer concerned with leveling the trailer, we just park raise the tent and level the tent platform itself.

Peddy10181

What trailer are you starting the build off with? I can't seem to find any trailers for the build that cheap.

Riptide9

Didn't... We built from scratch. Started with a rough estimate for how many feet of raw steel we needed and went from there.

Here are just a few shots from one of our builds

pvanweelden

very impressive job Riptide9

Peddy10181

You have some sick skills!