Bug Out Trailer

[countryboy6685]

Same here! I picked up a Coleman pop up for $500 with a stove.. Now I want to pimp it out survival style..

I have been looking for an older airstream but so far no luck . I want one of the smaller ones not the land ship kind .
Robert W

[TNap]

Great projects guys...looking to do one myself. Thanks for the photos and the information!

TNap

[TriangleMan]

Same here! I picked up a Coleman pop up for $500 with a stove.. Now I want to pimp it out survival style..

[prkchp76]

i have an old pop up camper trailer that i am, going to start making in to a bot thx for the ideas

[computerman]

Did you build it?...looks cool....here's one I'm working on...



BTW....build a box to go in it.....don't enclose it.....just in case....

Crap, Echo2! This picture made my mouth water. So much for having an extra time for a while. (not that I had any) Now I have got to start on one of these. I was thinking of trading my old Suburban in for a tractor/trailer rig simply because the Suburban won't carry enough stuff. (not really) :) This may be the solution. Thanks.

[CZ223]

In taking stock of what I have for bugging out

My F-250 and and V-nose enclosed trailer are high on my list of assets. I use my trailer for transporting the cabinets that I build and tools that I need to and from job-sites. In the summer I also use it to transport a lot of cooking gear to a large Cowboy action shoot to cook for 300 people. I have been thinking about making some removable storage cabinets and adding insulation as well as a roof mounted air conditioner. Its a little big to be towing through the woods and is bright red so it would stick out like a sore thumb but it will haul a lot.

[CountryGuy]

It being built for "camping"....We do a lot of stuff with our Scout Troop (Boy and Cub)....this is going to be a gear hauler and chuckwagon....sink on side....

Man wish when I was a kid our Troop would have had an awesome set up like that...

[CountryGuy]

BTW....build a box to go in it.....don't enclose it.....just in case....

On this thought, you might be able to build a box like a truck mounted camper where you could drop down legs, jack it up and pull your trailer out from under the box and have it setting ready to go. In the mean time you and the family can still use the trailer for your weekends. Then if some weekend you want to do a mock run on a bug out and evaluate your gear and setup; all you'll have to do is back the trailer under the box, lower it, strap it and hit the road.

[Gunwritr]

A very inexpensive way to go is a military surplus M101 series 3/4 ton trailer. These can be bought extremely inexpensively as surplus.
I have of them and have paid as little as $170 for one in excellent condition with the bows and cover. They usually run about $300-350
in this part of the country on surplus auctions. Very robust and well built.

[Echo2]

one of my friends built this....

[TriangleMan]

My dad once put a camper shell on a trailer made from a pickup bed. It worked great. I'm considering that for a bug out trailer. Portable storage and living quarters.

[Echo2]

That's going to be a cool rig, Echo2... Keep us posted on progress. I wish I could say that I built it, but I didn't. Bought it as is with the money I got from my Taurus. BTW... Excellent idea about the "box inside". That makes much more sense. Thanks
PT945,
Good tip on the rat bait. I'll probably leave tents and gear in it most of the time, but the trailer will be garaged at that point.

It being built for "camping"....We do a lot of stuff with our Scout Troop (Boy and Cub)....this is going to be a gear hauler and chuckwagon....

sink on side....



frame....

[slowz1k]

That's going to be a cool rig, Echo2... Keep us posted on progress. I wish I could say that I built it, but I didn't. Bought it as is with the money I got from my Taurus. BTW... Excellent idea about the "box inside". That makes much more sense. Thanks
PT945,
Good tip on the rat bait. I'll probably leave tents and gear in it most of the time, but the trailer will be garaged at that point.

[PT945]

If you plan on leaving the trailer loaded all the time, make sure to have some type of rodent bait, I found out the hard way rodents love to eat tents.and backpacks and boxes......well any way you get the idea. Nice trailer BTW.

[Echo2]

Did you build it?...looks cool....here's one I'm working on...



BTW....build a box to go in it.....don't enclose it.....just in case....