Turning a 4x6 box trailer into a sleeping unit x tent setup. Bad idea?

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OregonB

OregonB

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So the wife tried and then quickly rejected sleeping on a 4" mattress topper that fit perfectly into my LX's raised platform. I'm fine with it, but it was too closed in for her. Won't do the rooftop thing, either.
I have a basic 4' x 6' box trailer. 2' high walls, swing out gate. It would be a hair short (I'm 6'2") but has anyone seen a quality effort to make these into tent/bed setups? Getting in/out sure would be a breeze.
 
i wouldn't say it's a bad idea. put pencil to paper, doodle out your thinking. i'd probably do 3 or 4 simple hoops n a tarp. leave it collapsed till you get to camp. think covered wagon. with the hoops n tarp you can retain the utility of the trailer. just my 2cents
 
I like it. The trailer actually came with 3 or 4 flexible poles (white water pipe) with crimped ends. These inserted into metal catches mounted on top of the sidewalls, and added maybe a foot of height at the midpoint. I could finagle something that would create a little more height maybe.
 
OregonB said:
I like it. The trailer actually came with 3 or 4 flexible poles (white water pipe) with crimped ends. These inserted into metal catches mounted on top of the sidewalls, and added maybe a foot of height at the midpoint. I could finagle something that would create a little more height maybe.
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i was thinking minimum 2' height on the arch, but i'm vertically challenged so don't need too much room :hillbilly:
 
Make a Aluminum lid. then get a upholstery shop to make canvas walls so when you lift the lid it act like a hard top rtt tent
 
Something like this.

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I can see something like this working 🤔.

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traveldud said:
Is that 6’? Tent on top?
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The image was just to show a idea you could made a lid. and when it opens has canvas/ripstop Tent sides like the pic i showed
 
This is the actual blue trailer you see . But the op does not want a RTT.

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Yeah I get what you're angling to. Any OEM tent pop up tent system that roughly outlines the trailer, build a connection between the two.
 
Alt idea: welding a series of steel tubes, maybe 12" long or less...vertically-oriented, around o/s wall of trailer, They'd be minimially obtrusive. Then use those tubes as a "rod holders" for conduit and elbows to frame outline of a small elk (canvas) tent. Breakdown and set up would be slick. But I'd be having to pay for a custom canvas tent build. And maybe too hot in summer.
 
I have a Jeep Extreme Camper and it is a trailer that the top folds out to one side with legs for a queen size sleeping area, and then the tent with 3 hoops covers the sleeping area and the trailer which you can stand up in.

Sets up in about 15 minutes.

So you have standing up room, a 3 person couch, and the bed.

You may want to build something like that?
 
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