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What is and isn't crazy depends on your individual skills, ability, risk tolerance and situation. There are activities that are appropriate for my level of skill and knowledge that would be crazy for an untrained person to take part in, and the converse is certainly true as well. I think the key...

This is very useful advice thank you. I've got an aluminum rack on the back half of the trailer, maybe I should use side brackets and just extend it to provide the hard points for mounting. I sure am getting more and more tempted to get a TIG welder the more I dig into this project.

Hello all. I've got a trailer I'm converting for off-road and camping, and I want to mount solar to the roof and some pelican cases to the sides. The trailer has a metal roof and walls over steel tube frame. I'm wondering what the correct way to handle sealing around mounting bolts would be to...

@grubworm I gave your great homeade t nut from carriage bolt idea a try. Turns out unlike your e track, mine has a bit of a flange on the underside of the slot, so I don't have enough clearance to insert the bolt past the shoulder to turn it sideways. Ah well. Your build seems to be coming...

Looking good! I love the way the e track is flush mounted on the floor too.

Hello all, after many many years of dreaming, the wife and I finally took the plunge and bought a cargo trailer toy hauler to convert into our own personal adventure trailer. We've got a bunch of kids so even the relatively tame activity of heading to a campground is an adventure for us. I'm...

My trailer has some flashing as a "gutter" over the top of the door to keep rain from running down the trailer wall under the top of the door frame and leaking in, which might be something to look at if your trailer doesn't have that feature. It does seem like the door should fit snugly against...

The one on my trailer bolts on with some "security" bolts. May just buy the bit I need and remove it, or find a way to make it unboltable from the inside. The door has an RV style lock on it so the exterior lock isn't as vital

I hear you about the fears of things leaking. I haven't mounted my solar to the roof yet because I'm afraid I won't seal the holes correctly and it will leak. Your idea with making your own t nuts for the e track is brilliant. I have the same stud bolt hardware you bought and had the same issue...

It's not too bad day to day but things are definitely trending in the wrong direction as far as freedoms go in my view, at least long term. I don't think it's quite as far gone as the west coast though.

I would definitely do windows and a roof vent. Otherwise your just paying time and money to travel around in a giant oven box I'm also doing a cargo conversion and one thing you gotta figure is that even in the worst case and you do get a leak (unlikely) the materials your trailer is made of...

WFH is a real mixed blessing. Some things that help me: get up and MOVING often, preferably outside. I walk and bike a lot for this reason. You don't even need a lot of time to do this. Have a half hour between meetings? Get outdoors and get moving. It also helps to remember there's a ton of...

CO is lovely but as others have said, you will be dealing with the same government climate you are trying to escape, albeit slightly more moderated.