Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
0:00: Introduction
The Parlor: 1:50
Trailer Stabilizers: 3:13
Solar Panel: 5:11
About the Trailer: 8:57
Campsite Setup: 9:24
ARB Awning: 10:08
FrontRunner Water Jerry Can: 12:04
Camp Kitchen: 14:24
Dometic CFX55 IM Fridge: 15:25
Tuff Stuff Overland Elite Roof Top Tent: 17:33
Craft Autoworks OES: 21:31
Trailer Power Connections: 23:51
Hitching the trailer: 25:23
Conclusion: 25:53
Products listed in this video:
SAND MINE Mat: amzn.to/3TyzCwK [PAID LINK]
ARB Awning: amzn.to/3FeawyP [PAID LINK]
FrontRunner Expander Chair: amzn.to/3gx0PBg [PAID LINK]
RAM Stabilizer: amzn.to/3VV5g9g [PAID LINK]
RecPro RV Table Support: amzn.to/3D72KEf [PAID LINK]
Dometic CFX3 55IM: amzn.to/3SAdj8D [PAID LINK]
FrontRunner Water Jerry Can: amzn.to/3D59HG5 [PAID LINK]
ReBel 50Ah LiFePo4 Basttery: amzn.to/3TEyKqm [PAID LINK]
Noco Genius Charger: amzn.to/3TVsIkX [PAID LINK]
DC8 Extension: amzn.to/3VZvM1k [PAID LINK]
DC8 to SA adaptor: amzn.to/3swo4ye [PAID LINK]
Goal Zero Nomad 100: amzn.to/3gFMvqf [PAID LINK]
REI Chairs: rei.com/product/847136/rei-co-op-camp-x-chair
Craft Autoworks OES Compact: craftautoworks.com/portfolio-items/overland-electrical-systems
When you travel in the overland style, camping, driving, seeing the sights of the west, moving across the landscape like an explorer venturing into unknown lands, you need to bring enough with you that you can survive between resupplies be more or less comfortable doing it, without taking so much that you are encumbered by your burden of provisions and accessories. For everyone that line between prepared, and anchored, is a little different. Some travel light with slim shelter and minimal convenience, others travel in comparative luxury with full size expedition vehicles. Needs, and expectations are what they are. We've found a system that works well for us and it involves a minimally modified mid-size 4x4 and a small custom off-road trailer with a roof top tent.
The Trailer
This trailer has been around for a while. If you want to know more about where it came from and how it got here, you can see the full list of posts and videos here. But here's the elevator pitch. The trailer is a small steel cargo trailer that was sold under the name "Aerotow" in the '80's and '90's throughout the west. My parents bought it in about 1988 and it served as a family camping cargo carrier for our family for more than a decade. I acquired it in the early 2000's and it served as a utility trailer. Then we started to need it it for taking our growing family camping and so I added a bigger axle with brakes and tires. Off-Road duty quickly surpassed the structural integrity of the trailer so Bradd Davidson and Dave Wiggins built a new frame for it with Tacoma Springs and shocks from Harry Wagner and some of my new design concepts. At that point it became a truly capable off road trailer. Finally I added a Compact Camping Concepts No-Weld trailer rack for a roof top tent and awning and the structure of the trailer was complete.
Today, our little off road trailer can go anywhere the Tacoma can go and cary everything we need to get there and back. This is not just hyperbole. It has done that and I have the video to prove it.
READ MORE: allterrainfam.com/?p=3824&preview=true
0:00: Introduction
The Parlor: 1:50
Trailer Stabilizers: 3:13
Solar Panel: 5:11
About the Trailer: 8:57
Campsite Setup: 9:24
ARB Awning: 10:08
FrontRunner Water Jerry Can: 12:04
Camp Kitchen: 14:24
Dometic CFX55 IM Fridge: 15:25
Tuff Stuff Overland Elite Roof Top Tent: 17:33
Craft Autoworks OES: 21:31
Trailer Power Connections: 23:51
Hitching the trailer: 25:23
Conclusion: 25:53
Products listed in this video:
SAND MINE Mat: amzn.to/3TyzCwK [PAID LINK]
ARB Awning: amzn.to/3FeawyP [PAID LINK]
FrontRunner Expander Chair: amzn.to/3gx0PBg [PAID LINK]
RAM Stabilizer: amzn.to/3VV5g9g [PAID LINK]
RecPro RV Table Support: amzn.to/3D72KEf [PAID LINK]
Dometic CFX3 55IM: amzn.to/3SAdj8D [PAID LINK]
FrontRunner Water Jerry Can: amzn.to/3D59HG5 [PAID LINK]
ReBel 50Ah LiFePo4 Basttery: amzn.to/3TEyKqm [PAID LINK]
Noco Genius Charger: amzn.to/3TVsIkX [PAID LINK]
DC8 Extension: amzn.to/3VZvM1k [PAID LINK]
DC8 to SA adaptor: amzn.to/3swo4ye [PAID LINK]
Goal Zero Nomad 100: amzn.to/3gFMvqf [PAID LINK]
REI Chairs: rei.com/product/847136/rei-co-op-camp-x-chair
Craft Autoworks OES Compact: craftautoworks.com/portfolio-items/overland-electrical-systems
When you travel in the overland style, camping, driving, seeing the sights of the west, moving across the landscape like an explorer venturing into unknown lands, you need to bring enough with you that you can survive between resupplies be more or less comfortable doing it, without taking so much that you are encumbered by your burden of provisions and accessories. For everyone that line between prepared, and anchored, is a little different. Some travel light with slim shelter and minimal convenience, others travel in comparative luxury with full size expedition vehicles. Needs, and expectations are what they are. We've found a system that works well for us and it involves a minimally modified mid-size 4x4 and a small custom off-road trailer with a roof top tent.
The Trailer
This trailer has been around for a while. If you want to know more about where it came from and how it got here, you can see the full list of posts and videos here. But here's the elevator pitch. The trailer is a small steel cargo trailer that was sold under the name "Aerotow" in the '80's and '90's throughout the west. My parents bought it in about 1988 and it served as a family camping cargo carrier for our family for more than a decade. I acquired it in the early 2000's and it served as a utility trailer. Then we started to need it it for taking our growing family camping and so I added a bigger axle with brakes and tires. Off-Road duty quickly surpassed the structural integrity of the trailer so Bradd Davidson and Dave Wiggins built a new frame for it with Tacoma Springs and shocks from Harry Wagner and some of my new design concepts. At that point it became a truly capable off road trailer. Finally I added a Compact Camping Concepts No-Weld trailer rack for a roof top tent and awning and the structure of the trailer was complete.
Today, our little off road trailer can go anywhere the Tacoma can go and cary everything we need to get there and back. This is not just hyperbole. It has done that and I have the video to prove it.
READ MORE: allterrainfam.com/?p=3824&preview=true
