Boxcar – How I Built Our Tiny Travel Trailer

Posted: March 1st, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: RV Camping | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments »

Construction photos showing how I built our Tiny Travel Trailer. home.comcast.net/~bdosborn/

25 Comments on “Boxcar – How I Built Our Tiny Travel Trailer”

  1. 1 bdosborn said at 9:19 am on November 29th, 2010:

    FRP, same stuff they use on big RVs.

  2. 2 bdosborn said at 9:19 am on November 29th, 2010:

    Thanks!

  3. 3 Romashk said at 5:37 pm on December 1st, 2010:

    after a successful project this big, what’s next, a yacht? :)

  4. 4 bdosborn said at 8:47 pm on December 1st, 2010:

    Nope, I’m just going to coast for awhile….

  5. 5 vixelpixen said at 9:42 am on December 8th, 2010:

    really nice job… about how long did it take you? construction costs?

  6. 6 bdosborn said at 8:53 pm on December 9th, 2010:

    2 years and I don’t know how much money…

  7. 7 TimSDobson said at 6:02 pm on December 12th, 2010:

    @bdosborn thanks.. ill source a supplier..

  8. 8 Danerp001 said at 11:40 pm on December 25th, 2010:

    Beautiful craftsmanship.

  9. 9 dcherchenko said at 4:03 pm on January 2nd, 2011:

    Hey what did you cover the outside with?

  10. 10 bdosborn said at 4:20 pm on January 2nd, 2011:

    Filon

  11. 11 Unicyclerider64 said at 5:55 pm on January 2nd, 2011:

    very nice job. as a wood worker the detail work (dovetail drawers pocket hole joints
    panel doors with two tone stain) was great to see. if you are going to take the time
    to do the job it is nice to see someone do it right

  12. 12 bdosborn said at 7:48 pm on January 2nd, 2011:

    Wow, thanks!

  13. 13 songthirtyone said at 6:31 pm on January 8th, 2011:

    MAD SKILLS !

  14. 14 hemifan426 said at 9:55 pm on January 8th, 2011:

    Do you have plans for the popup part, you don’t really show how you built it and how it sets up once you are at a camping area?

  15. 15 pyroman675 said at 4:25 pm on January 16th, 2011:

    dude this is awesom i love how you built it, i would some day love to build one of these!. any specs on size and weight?. were did you get the fold down TV an does it come with a DVD or blue ray system. and did you do the electrical?

  16. 16 bdosborn said at 9:50 pm on January 17th, 2011:

    any specs on size and weight? – 6-1/2′ Wide, 11′ long, 3000 fully loaded#

    were did you get the fold down TV an does it come with a DVD or blue ray system. – eBay and it came with a DVD player

    did you do the electrical? – I did everything.

  17. 17 bdosborn said at 9:50 pm on January 17th, 2011:

    Sent you a PM

  18. 18 pyroman675 said at 10:44 am on January 18th, 2011:

    @bdosborn very nice!, Im wondering if you have all that much experince with electrical, cause im not all that good with that stuff so do you need allot of experince with electrical do wire sometihng like this?

  19. 19 bdosborn said at 5:16 pm on January 22nd, 2011:

    If you can wire a car stereo, you can do the 12V electrical. I would get some help for the 120V systems if you haven’t any experience there.

  20. 20 pyroman675 said at 5:21 pm on January 22nd, 2011:

    @bdosborn ooh okay, thanks

  21. 21 JONESTIMETRAVEL said at 4:29 pm on January 31st, 2011:

    Absolutely fantastic job. I am in the middle of building or should I say converting a panel van into a motorhome. I would love to learn the skills of furniture making, especially the drawer dove tail joints. I am a mechanical engineering student at Cardiff university. The metal work looks relatively simple compared to the time and effort spent for the furniture? Where did you learn??

  22. 22 876234ABC said at 3:45 pm on February 1st, 2011:

    AMAZING! What tremendous workmanship. You’re very talented, and patient, too–and it shows in the final product.

  23. 23 bdosborn said at 12:50 pm on February 2nd, 2011:

    That’s funny I thought the metal working was the hard part ;-) . Get the Kreig Pocket screw guide to making cabinets.

  24. 24 msdetroitswag said at 3:37 pm on February 3rd, 2011:

    you are great , will you marry me?

  25. 25 MakeYourOwnMotorhome said at 12:35 pm on February 8th, 2011:

    Great job, I like how you built everything from scratch. It’s even given me some ideas for my own projects as featured on my YT channel

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