Hello all, thank you for your experience in everything you do to keep this economy going. To start things off, I don't drive rigs yet, but I aspire to someday. I have driven 38' box comfortably. I'm just going to jump right in and ask. I'm sure most of you have heard of tiny houses, I would like to build on a lowboy style frame with a deck over. My material weight not including trailer is around 13k lbs, as far as home design. This will be permanently attached, as a home. The trailer will be custom made to fit, 48'-53' with 11'8" on deckover part included. So let's say 12' deckover with 36'-41' lowboy style beyond that. Lowboy ground clearance ideally about 1'-13". Gn will be from 4'-53" ( not sure how that works yet), would like to have it setup to pull from a 1985 d350 dodge with a flatbed. My questions are how I should design frame to weigh less and still be sound, should I just go with a double axle on rear since the weight will be so light, or stick with a triple like I planned, would like outriggers like with cranes since I designed fold outs but I can't find them for lighter applications. If you could point me in the right direction I would be surely appreciative. Thank-you for your time and keep on trucking.
Very odd question about lowboy trailer I'm sure.
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The section between the wheels and deckover will be around 24' with the 1'-13" ground clearance.
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This is close to what I'm thinking but with more ground clearance. I don't necessarily need 1' but I don't want to scrape on land when going over a hill.
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Just noticed this, lol, I wanting it to be at 8' 6" wide as that's max width without extra permit. I am aware of the 13'6" heght limit, but I'm wondering on a shorter setup on that too. My plans for the house include a system to raise roof height, so I would like to know the real safe height traveling under an overpass as in know road and highway clearance fluctuate depending on road repair.
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Waiting on flatbed and MRAP axles. 6.7 Cummins diesel is the power. My 1985 d350 is in pieces at the moment, this is a similar picture of what it was before I started.
I'm a Mopar man, but I've started to grow a hard-on for the international crew cab pickups. It's just the international I'm looking at is 56k and 19k beyond budget with trade in and not including the trailer build.Attached Files:
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Think
"gooseneck" or "step deck"
Not "lowboy"
and also think "Diet" or bigger truck...
13K materials
+?? 5K Trailer Frame (probably more though)
+?? 2K Misc. Crap
Around 20K Trailer, most likely you'll be more than that.
Around 7K for the truck,
Roughly 27K combination weight
Way more than a D350 was ever designed for!!!
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You should be looking at a trailer like this instead.
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One of these days, I want to build a custom RV that I pull behind the truck. All kinds of slide outs and such. I'd go with a complete custom built frame.
You can see videos online of how RV trailers are made. That's how I'd do it. But be aware that there seems to be a square footage limit to RV trailers depending on the jurisdiction. Some would limit you to around 48 foot trailer length. -
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