Finding a Good Small Trailer

[GraviTyKillz]

Hello PPlz! 
I need some input. I live in north eastern calif and am having a hard time finding a small camp trailer. Is Quartzite a good place to find one?..i'm planing on making my first trip down this year hopefully for the RTR. I have a 4x4 Ford 4 door with a short bed and am looking for a small casita or like trailer.
Peace

also...WOoT First post!!

 

[Travelmonkey]

There is a 2012 Casita for sale in Chico recently posted on this forum. Good luck!

 

[blars]

Several RV dealers bring bunches of RVs to Quartzsite to sell in Dec-Feb, but I think it tends to be mostly motorhomes and 5th-wheels. Whatever they want to get rid of, but is worth moving from where it was to sell. Selection and prices go down as the season come to a close.

 

[highdesertranger]

Welcome GraviTyKillz to the CRVL forums! To help you learn the ins and outs of these forums, this "Tips & Tricks" post lists some helpful information to get you started. We look forward to hearing more from you. I love NE CA, feels like another state almost like the State of Jefferson. for a trailer I would check major cities on your way to Q. Reno, Vegas, I noticed a lot of RV's for sale in the Bullhead City/Mohave Valley area. good luck see you at RTR. highdesertranger

 

[rvpopeye]

Welcome aboard GraviTyKillz !
Happy hunting on that new trailer and ask anything you want to know about the lifestyle.

 

[ArtW]

Welcome

 

[jimindenver]

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your search.

 

[GraviTyKillz]

Thank you all for the kind welcome!!
I should have added im looking for an older trailer. I want to rebuild the inside from scratch.
Just a little about me. 60 retired and realizing life is precious and short. I have a significant other and She has an autistic son. I own my house and am not going to give it up. because they need a place to live. But Im going to travel 4 to 6 months of the year cause i got Itchy feet. Thinking of getting a pass to the state parks and just spend some time fishing.
I am also an avid gold seeker and love to metal detect or sluice. I plan on staying on GPA claims also...which is a great deal if you look into it. Many properties up and down the west coast were u can stay for free..and most are in great remote places.
anywayz Cheers!! and keep the rubber side down!

 

[highdesertranger]

hint, I am also a prospector. you don't have to be a member of the Gold Prospectors Association of America(GPAA) to camp on their claims. any body can camp on any non-patented mineral claim, in fact anybody can hike, hunt, fish, bird watch or whatever, the only thing you can't do is collect rocks or prospect/mine. this applies to all non-patent claims. now patented claims are a different story they are private property. 99% of GPAA claims are unpatented claims, their sister organization the Lost Dutchmen Mining Ass.(LDMA) claims are patented. come on to RTR we can dig a little. highdesertranger

 

[GraviTyKillz]

Ill look forward to talking with you ranger! Ill be in a dark red Ford f150 4x4 four door. I plan on being there end of Jan, beginning of Feb so i can hit the RTR and the gold show.
Peace.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Hello PPlz! 
I need some input. I live in north eastern calif and am having a hard time finding a small camp trailer. Is Quartzite a good place to find one?..i'm planing on making my first trip down this year hopefully for the RTR. I have a 4x4 Ford 4 door with a short bed and am looking for a small casita or like trailer.

Have you been looking on:

www.rvtrader.com

You might want to also spend some time on:

http://www.fiberglassrv.com/

Finally, if you are planning on gutting the trailer anyway, have you considered doing your own build in a cargo trailer?  Lots of good examples in the cargo trailer sub-forum of:

www.tnttt.com

 

[ArtW]

if I planned to gut and build anyway, i would for sure start with a new cargo trailer, instead of an old travel trailer, the cargo will be much sturdier

 

[Magicwolf]

This site sometimes has a decent selection of older molded fiberglass campers:
http://www.fiberglass-rv-4sale.com/

 

[eDJ_]

I was talking with an older fellow the other day in my home town. (Huntington, WV)  We were on a Kroger Grocery Store Parking lot and I was looking at his pickup truck rig.   His pickup had a fiberglass lid that raised and lowered at the back and would lock.  He was towing a 12' Trailer single axle fenders and door on the right side with some electrical hookup's.

I told him I was considering one and he told me that he's a snow bird from this area but he comes back for hunting season and the trailer is his camper.  Totally stealth.  It was made by Champion. he told me and
cost him $2250 in Florida.  (his was gray in color)  said he bought it new there  and it has leaf springs and he  he indicated he was happy with it.  He leaves it here all year and only takes his truck to Florida where he has a
camper trailer there where he lives in the winter.

But in hunting season he lives out of this trailer.   He installed his electrical service port just below the side door's bottom hinge.  

This photo comes from Equipment Trader.  

http://www.equipmenttraderonline.com/Trailers/listing/2015-CARGO+CRAFT-ELITE+V-102408134


I've met one guy who delivers potato chips to grocery stores and he explained to me that the Trailer he bought has been nothing but trouble.  Tires it came with were replaced within the first two months,  roof leaks, suspension (torsion type) isn't sufficient,  and he isn't carrying much weight at all. 

I know nothing about the "Champion Brand" other than what the old fellow told me.  I did like the price
however.   I don't know if purchasing a trailer in Florida as an out of state person would save one the sales tax or not.  Others will have to speak to that.

 

[Dennis]

Sounds like a plan, GraviTyKillz.
Am going to try and make it out and hook up with hdr and some of you others that do some prospecting, detecting, and rock hounding.
I have been having thoughts of scrapping my van build and go with a cargo trailer and a 2500 4x4 Suburban. Time is running short though.

 

[jimindenver]

A pick up trailer can be made to go just about anywhere the truck can. I just got rid of ours but the right wheel of it rode up onto a Jeep Cherokee after it pulled out while I was making a right turn into the lot. It just stayed like that until I backed it back down and off the hood of the truck. It was a hunters trailer before I bought it for our garden service, it would have been a blast with our 4x4 F150.

 

[Txjaybird]

I recently bought a Aliner trailer in FL where the dealer charged me 2% FL sales tax.  When I registered it here in AL I had to pay AL sales tax for my county minus the FL 2%.   When registering a Tx titled truck in SD I not only had additional tax I would have been taxed the current market value of the truck without a Bill Of Sale to prove what I paid for it.  Every state seems to need their share of our income to keep the pot holes up on the roads I guess.

Years ago there was so much work repairing I45 between Dallas and Houston that when there were areas of repair someone would announce on their CB  "slow down now, they're moving the S. bound potholes back to the N bound side", or visa versa.  My favorite was the trucker who commented one night "they better hurry 'cuz there's a guy standing on volkswagon waving for help in the last hole I passed 

Jewellann

 

[GraviTyKillz]

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif] I love NE CA, feels like another state almost like the State of Jefferson.[/font]

 missed this the first time i read thru.  ya buddy. Im in Lassen County. And I Love the High Desert. Found this  a while is was up in the high desert this summer , and quite a few more in the same location...no gold..but  what a concentration of  glyphs!

on more

anyway..Love the Desert..Lassen is great for that..and Got the Sierras right here. I do a lot of mining on Lights Creek.
Peace.