The walls go up!

It's early monday morning and it's nice and cool ...for now anyways. We have had 98% humidity now for a couple weeks. We are just not used to that. I don't mind the hot days we have but it's usally dry! Oh well we will adjust I guess. Here are the side walls waiting to go up. Nows the time to get them up and keep the whole trailer squared up also. I usally don't do so well with keeping things square but to avoid issues later we have to.

One side is up..whoo hoo! Now the hard part. The other side has to

match!

Stop for some coffee and think about this for a minute.

Yay! it's up. After this we double checked and even triple checked that everything was in place and square. There are a few more brace in now but this was the last pic we took for the day. We found a piece of counter top we wanted for the galley so we are off to the store to get it. We are done with this project for today we are going to kick back, have a few friends over and cook up some old fashion bar-b-que for Memorial day! Where do we go from here? Not sure but stay tuned I'm sure we will figure it out. See ya'll

Sunday!

I think we were able to get a bunch done today. We are able to get both wall framed. It's funny in a way, one side took us 3 hours or so and the second side was done in 20 minutes. Figures huh? After all the framing was done we inserted some pink foam board insulation in the voided areas. Then we moved on to the inside skin. Most of our electrical work will be in the galley area and we will only require a few wires to the front of the trailer for some reading lights so I decided to just run those wires via the roof. We made the decision to go ahead and skin the inside while the wall were laying flat and to be honest it probably was a bit easier that way. We did a lot today and we are both feeling it. We called it a good and cleaned up the joint and took the evening off. Our plan now is monday morning while it's still nice and cool is to get these walls in a vertical position and mounted to the trailer. See ya then!

Noel glueing the frame pieces in.

More glue!

One side skinned and one side framed...almost there.

Both sides skinned and waiting to be stood up...tha'ts in the morning.!

Good progress today!

Howdy all! good progress today. Me and Noel got the floor attached and good to go. The bottom should be well protected and wheathered in.

It tested out well! Not sure how else to test a floor.

We were able to work out the profile we wanted, got it drawn and refined. Now the fun part to get it all cut out. What a chore it ended up being. Not so sure my little jigsaw had enough gumption for the job but we finally were able to get done.





I wished I had a belt sander at this point but we got the job done.

we also cut out both doors and started some framing on one side. Tomorrow morning after a cup of coffee or two we will finish up the framing and by the end of the day we hope to have somthing that will start looking like a teardrop trailer. We are getting some strange looks by the passers by but just wait till the sides are up they will really be looking. Hope everyone is haveing a great Memorial Day weekend. We Are!

Black Ickey Stuff!

I'm actually going to get this entry in on time tonight. We put the icky black stuff on tonight. We decided to go with a automotive undercoating. I've had good luck with this stuff on other projects and have used it for many years on motorcycle fenders that have left my store. So I hope it does well here. The only downside to this is I'm sure that we will have to get under the trailer at some time and re-apply the stuff. Only time will tell. The seems on the basement have a generous dose of Gorilla Glue so I'm confident it will hold up well to the road and at this point not sure how we will handle the other seems but will find out in the morning.

The "basement"

Well we had fun with this. The "basement" storage begins. It went together quite well and in no time we were done.

The space is big enough to hold 2 of our folding tables and 4 folding chairs plus a bit more room for whatever we need to squeeze in. Good idea babe!

Started Floor Construction

Well we finally got started on the floor construction. After an hour of discussion of what we wanted and how we needed to get there this is what we had done. I know we are slow. The rest seemed to fall into place and we called it good for the evening. Here's a second pic of the floor with all the pieces cut and ready to go. Nothing is mounted permanately as of yet but will be soon.

We decided we needed a bit more storage so a basement, as Noel would call it, was in the works. Not tonight though!

Adventure Begins!

Well the adventure begins, Me and Noel have been looking at building a Tear Drop Trailer now for about a year. We have finally started. Our frame is ready to go with some possible modifications to come but for now it's going to be started as is. Thanks for stopping by and we should have updates often so come back soon!

Pat at Young's Trailer here in Amarillo did us right on this frame. I really didn't have a choice as I was threatend with my life by Noel if I was caught with a welder in my hands. Long story and will save the details. So Young's it was. 5x10 frame with axle, wheels, tires and baby moons. Also the jack and hitch along with the leveling jacks, oh don't forget they painted it for us too. We paid right at $650.00. We may have been able to spend less building it ourselves or working with one of the smaller trailers available from Harbor Freight and such but we felt we wanted to go this way, so we did.