Here's a peek inside a typical day at the Oregon Trail'R shop. Video by Aran Eversman of Mellowest Digital Creative- aran.io/
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@EricLightbody3 жыл бұрын
These trailers make so much sense. Bikes on the back, kayaks on top, can't wait to pick one up some day!
@jondecarbonel81586 жыл бұрын
I LOVE how this little 1940s design is making a HUGE comeback. I'm seeing all sorts of people getting back into camping. Fantastic! Beautiful shop, wonderful little trailers, guys! 😎
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
jon decarbonel That’s high praise, thank you friend! These campers are SO FUN!
@Rocki5pr6 жыл бұрын
Another enjoyable video!!!
@KuyaJones Жыл бұрын
Another satisfied customer... just like me with my DDA. Awesome product.
@judge_executioner4 жыл бұрын
That was a really good looking trailer! I want one
@JamesDavidsonPhoto6 жыл бұрын
Love watching your videos. I've always appreciated your willingness to share a view into your process. Keep up the good work OT!
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
James Davidson Than You!!! We will!!
@davids28856 жыл бұрын
I’m currently waiting on a trailer from one of your competitors, SoCal Teardrops, but I just wanted to say that I’ve enjoyed your videos and appreciate what appears to be a great attention to detail and craftsmanship. I don’t exactly know why, but your side table video is my favorite. Such a basic accessory yet so beautifully crafted. Keep it up!
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
Thanks David. I hope you enjoy your SoCal when it's finished. I really do like those. Maybe we'll see you out on the trailer someday.
@davids28856 жыл бұрын
OregonTrailR That would be awesome but I’m in Ohio and unless you venture to Overland East I’d be willing to say that’s a long shot.
@scottnathanphoto5 жыл бұрын
I love the look of your products? Any plans to build any out of composite and or insulated? Wood scares me a bit long term.
@davairharris26136 жыл бұрын
How big is the camper? And what length is inside sleeping
@edproso29245 жыл бұрын
I M ready to upgrade from tenting. Are you going to be in any of the RV shows in Seattle area. Or do you have a showroom.
@mdpj29552 жыл бұрын
Parabéns 👏👏 muito sucesso Lindo demais seu trabalho 👏 abraço 🙏
@affidavit4 Жыл бұрын
How do you make the rear hatch? Is the outer skin on the hatch that seals against the frame line x coated plywood too?
@SouthernGinger6 жыл бұрын
Great video guys!
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TariAkpodiete6 жыл бұрын
several features i see here which i really like: 1. fairly rugged. 2. the propane tank is close to the kitchen 3. roof rack
@nomnum34766 жыл бұрын
Very nice, that would look good behind my 4runner. haha
@sherrie1956 Жыл бұрын
Do you build a 6ft wide trailer?
@hinduspl6 жыл бұрын
Can someone explain me for what this cab is? its for sleeping?
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
hinduspl Yes. These are miniature campers. They all have a bed and storage inside, some have a galley kitchen in the back, and all are durable enough to be towed to just about anywhere by just about any vehicle.
@Tatertot244016 жыл бұрын
you guys are great! been a fan a long time. I'm a carpenter/ cabinet maker wanting to build a tear drop. any good advice would be appreciated. just a shot in the dark, but do you sell on the east coast. would like to talk more about that.
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
Jeff Dixon we have sold a few trailers on the east coast, but honestly given your skill set and the fact you have the tools, I would suggest you give it a shot yourself if you have a lot of free time! We would love to sell you one of course, but we support the DIY community as well! The most important advice I could give you is to think several steps ahead and keep weatherproofing in mind at every stage of the build! Use the best materials you can afford (we love pre-finished Baltic Birch), and build it like a cabinet instead of like a house! Dados/rabbets, glue and screws!
@michaelcarniel90866 жыл бұрын
Gotta agree with the guys at OregonTrailR. You have the skills. I built one and i'm an AC man with little to no wood working skills. That shows in the wood work but the metal work is pretty darn good and I get positive comments everywhere I take it. Took me 4 months working a few hours a night. My advice, pay attention to weight as much as weatherproofing. Its easy to overbuild, but with a little fore thought, you can keep them light. Mine came it at 900 pounds fully loaded and with enough food in the cooler to last a week. In hind site, lighter would have been easy, but at least I can throw a couple of deer on the roof :P
@ryunruly12274 жыл бұрын
So it looks like the only vertical members are the pieces of plywood. How does that support the rack with a RTT on it with a few people inside!?
@OregonTrailR4 жыл бұрын
Good question. Plywood is actually quite a bit stronger than people think it is, especially with shear load - which is what is happening with our rack. Each of our massively overbuilt rack towers is bolted on with 4 Stainless carriage bolts - which combine to create massive clamping pressure between the rack tower "foot", and side wall. The rack towers are then connected with a very strong 2" x 2" aluminum extrusion. I've had more than 500 lbs worth of people in the tent simultaneously + plus the 120'ish lbs of the tent itself. I hope this helps answer your question.
@user-nm6sn1sl7q6 жыл бұрын
Hi guys! As I understand in your trailer side panel without insulation. Isn't it?
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
You are correct, we do not insulate our sidewalls. We prefer the durability and stability of a solid Baltic Birch sidewall which makes for maximum shear strength.
@affidavit4 Жыл бұрын
Do you put any surface treatment on the plywood before you line x it? Does the liner x stick well to the plywood?
@OregonTrailR Жыл бұрын
Sorry for the late reply, we are having notification issues! Polyurea sticks pretty well to carefully prepared plywood, but the shop we use to spray our Alpha Coating has a special primer that goes on the wood first that helps the polyurea bond to the wood. This was highly recommended by the polyurea technicians we worked with when designing our Alpha line of trailers. Our first one was built in 2015 and is still functioning perfectly 8 years later! Color has faded a little, but no cracks, warps, or anything of that nature...
@affidavit4 Жыл бұрын
@@OregonTrailR That you for replying! I am building my own custom teardrop and was considering line x for the waterproof exterior over plywood. If you don't mind me asking, is the primer a special formulation or a standard product that I could apply myself?
@OregonTrailR Жыл бұрын
@@affidavit4 I'm sorry for the late reply! Unfortunately it is a trade secret, but if you can find someone who has a lot of experience spraying this stuff (you don't want to try this yourself IMHO), they will probably know what to use to bond to your substrate. Make sure to do samples first so you can be sure the bond is perfect! Good luck!
@wowsplat6 жыл бұрын
Do you guys finance? It would be sweet if you guys show the end result of that alpha!
@ndotto6 жыл бұрын
Do you have a dealership representing you in Ontario Canada ?
@OregonTrailR6 жыл бұрын
We don't use dealerships. We prefer to deal with our clients directly. We are a low quantity, high quality manufacturer, and that doesn't really jive with the dealership industry. We have several of our campers in Canada, but none that I know of that far East... We do have a client in Calgary that I'm sure would be happy to show his off, but that is a LONG way to go! If you find yourself a reason to come to Oregon, we'd love to show you around our facility!
@cherylbarrett27173 жыл бұрын
What is over the interior of the doors at 2:56?
@OregonTrailR3 жыл бұрын
That's a jeep style nylon grab handle.
@franksimon50323 жыл бұрын
How much or your trailer
@albaddal4 жыл бұрын
We can know the dimensions, length, width and height. From the inside
@hclim92024 жыл бұрын
Some manufacturers use composite materials for their body. You guys use plywood and LINE-X. What're the pros and cons?
@OregonTrailR4 жыл бұрын
I’m a life long woodworker, so the easiest answer is that I work with the materials I know and trust. The more important answer is that wood (especially this Baltic birch) is a environmentally responsible renewable resource. This is specialty marine plywood, harvested from trees that were grown on a plantation in Russia specifically to become the worlds best plywood. Technically speaking, a composite material is just two or more materials put together to create a superior material, so plywood, being made of many wood veneers held together by specialty adhesives, is a composite material. But what you are talking about are plastic products, I’m assuming. These can be excellent materials for construction, but can be very limiting when designing with curves, etc. The benefit of plastic, as that it lasts nearly forever, but that is also part of my issue. I believe excessive dependence on plastics is poisoning our environment, and I can’t justify going through that much of it to build a product that isn’t anyones life necessity. When you coat Baltic Birch correctly with polyurea (linex), you get an incredibly strong and lightweight body that cannot leak, rot, scratch, dent, etc... Now, to be fair, polyurea isn’t the most environmentally sound material in the world either, but it adds decades to the potential lifespan of these trailers (I believe they will outlive their owners), which removes the necessity to build replacements, which uses vastly more energy and materials... hope this helps! Thanks for the question!
@hclim92024 жыл бұрын
@@OregonTrailR Thank you for the very detailed answers. They are very helpful as I'm doing research on various products of this form format, especially those using different materials (plywood, aluminum frame, etc). I hope to see your products in Overland East 2020.
@OregonTrailR4 жыл бұрын
HC Lim We only are able to take enough time off to go to a few shows a year, and Expo East is just too far for us, though we usually have a few of our clients messing around out there in the campground and sometimes in other brand’s booths. We are planning to be at the new Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland CO this year, instead of Flagstaff like we normally do...
@alexsandoval1585 Жыл бұрын
Hi Do you guys sell new parts for tear drops ?
@OregonTrailR Жыл бұрын
Hi Alex, we do stock and sell a few parts and materials for DIY builds. Check out our online store on our website: oregontrailer.net - more parts will be added soon, right now it's a relatively small number of offerings. We are actively working on adding more items to the store though. We also have an amazon affiliate store opening soon with links to parts, materials, and products that we use on our builds and have personally vetted. Check back soon for that. Should be live in within a week or so.
@alexsandoval1585 Жыл бұрын
@@OregonTrailR Thank you !
@phyl12835 жыл бұрын
Nice video of production work but unfortunately not much help to us homebuild guys. Some ideas can be cribbed, but that production router is a dream tool.
@OregonTrailR5 жыл бұрын
I get it man. I built my first teardrop 12 years ago in my backyard with a jigsaw and a drill. The first few production teardrops we built were all made with hand tools. I still have the hundreds of templates I used in the early years to cut every single part of these trailers before we bought our CNC router. All of this can be done without a CNC, and with as much accuracy, it just takes more time and a steady hand... The most beautiful and impressive teardrop I ever saw in my life was built by a retired woodshop teacher in his garage with hand tools.
@emersonpedro39445 жыл бұрын
Show,,,,,,,,,,
@clawhammer7045 жыл бұрын
My idea would be to have the teardrop just for storage and have the bed in the van...