jberry's Dingleberry Expo Trailer

Sounded like he was as wide as he could have been when he registered.

 

Looks like it's working great Jason. Makes me want to get out my GoPro and do a similar vid with my trailer. One thing that I notice is your Max Coupler looks to be a tighter all around connection than my Lock-n-Roll. Not by much but I do have a very small bit of slop that the MC doesn't probably because of the bushings.

One thing you'll find is that the trailer will be airborne a lot if you are crossing irregular terrain at speed. Yours looks to handle it as well as any I've seen, from airbag and trailing arm setups, leaf springs, torsion axles...whatever. But ALL of them spend a little time in the air. Even fully loaded there just isn't enough weight for the suspension and/or tires to deflect quick enough to keep the tires down on the time.

BTW, what tire pressure are you running?

Edit: oh and safety chains?

 

Cool trailer.
Are you mounting safety chains too?

 

Finally had a chance to spin back through some of the thread.

Love the first pic. LOL. I understand. Being a visionary requires...uh...seeing stuff that isn't there yet, right? Just curious, did you google a bunch of the Aussie outback trailers while you were in the dreaming and brainstorming phase?

I'm going to check out the Valterra tank options. I didn't come across that brand earlier this year when I was looking for a water supply in my humble teardrop. I'll be looking into these for future refinements.

 

fuck yea! way to do a proper shakedown

you're a fucking animal!

 

I've probably already told you this but I know my trailer suspension is stiffer than yours but I run 10-12psi in the trailer tires on or offroad. Even at high speeds the sidewalls don't heat up so I don't worry about them being too low at all. Offroad it definitely helps to have to tires soak up a lot of the high frequency hits that the suspension can't react to quickly enough.

 

i would like another go with the manley at a lower psi to see how it compares. but i was afraid to go more than 10mph on the fire roads in fear it would start to barrel roll it was on 1 tire more than two on the bumpy roads!

i have a constant reminder of that trip everytime i go on my patio and look at my grill, well what's left of it

 

Wow that suprises me. I can comfortably hit speeds between 35-50mph on most fire roads. Heavily rutted ones can slow me down to ~20mph or so and I'll definitely get some air under the trailer then but it's not a big deal. If you had to go that slow with the Manley trailer, my guess is the tire pressure was WAY too high.

 

Went through the entire build today. You went from having one of my favorite first gen's to now having one of my favorite trailers too.

 

Yeah, he's a total dick.

 

tire pressure had a lot to do with the handling issues...wasn't my trailer so i didn't want to mess with his pressure...but i asked him later why the pressure was so high, and he had no idea...it was >50psi when i measured it...nearly blew up my pressure gauge!

so it was bouncy as fuck for sure..that's why i'd like to have another go at it with lower pressure to see how it should have handled...

 

I think our forum needs a new banner photo

 

Hmmm, perfect to Towing forum....

 

Cool. I would need a much smaller one, and they have a variety of sizes. I wouldn't mind a pump and a small basin.
Well this is interesting, Adventure Trailers has some great stuff, I've seen the Horizon before, but they show an offroad teardrop, and that teardrop is bult by Socal Teardrops in Upland (and their franchises Treeline in Petaluma NorCal and Canyon Country in AZ). It is a Socal 459, I can assure you, as I have been over every inch of one when I had my on-road 509 built. They go bonkers on stoutness, and are far above any other teardrop I've seen, even for on-road trailers. 459 uses 2x3 square tube and OME suspension, for a start.

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