Something following my Jeep....

[ghcoe]

I have something following my Jeep now. A foam trailer.......What!

Yes a foam trailer. This one I built for off road use. It has a dry weight of only 385lbs. Not finished, but was able to keep up with the Jeep on my last two trips. Footage in this video is from the Steens/Alvord trip I took a few weeks ago.

[Stuka]

Did you build this? Interested in its construction.

[ghcoe]

Did you build this? Interested in its construction.

Yes. I am building a YouTube channel to show people how I am building one like this one https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3xVuH ... SiploqPyrw. There is some video in there now from this build, but it is not put together real well since I was just going to make a written manual. I decided to do a more step by step video series and put it on YouTube.

This is the second foamie I have built the first one is bigger and weighs 510lbs, but I don't take it off road.



I have a good write up on it here http://tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=54099.

[Stuka]

Oh, very cool. I was wondering what you coated the foam with. The canvasing is really cool, looks like it adds a lot of strength. Out of curiosity, did you coat the bottom of the OSB floor with anything?

[ghcoe]

The XPS foam is actually pretty tough by itself, but once you coat it with canvas it becomes quite a bit stronger. It's kinda like a I beam effect.

I used Henry's Dura-Brite White Elastomeric Roof Coating on the smaller trailer (video) and Henry's Asphalt Roof Coating Emulsion on the larger trailer. The Asphalt coating was a bit too nasty for me to want to put it on another trailer.

[Stuka]

Yeah, henry's asphalt is a mess.