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I have not had time to watch all of his videos, and I've not seen anything about the legs themselves. Did he make those? or are they a military part? I have not quite came up with a satisfactory way to get/design the lifting legs. My current idea is a couple of chain hoist hanging from 2...

For me, at least for the next few years, I cannot live full-time in my expedition rig. Which means at best the habitat will get used maybe 4 weeks out of the year, leaving me 48 weeks of the year when I'd be better off without the box on the back. Eventually that will change, we'll soon be...

I'm not sure I have. I saw this s-280 on legs from the Endless Adventure Youtube channel, which age me the idea of a removable habitat.

This has crossed my mind as well as replacing the stock bed with one from a rollback wrecker. But engineering and money again. Keeping the bed stock and removing the box with some legs or an overhead gantry (or in my case, maybe a couple of chain hoists hanging from trees) seems easier and cheaper.

I am considering swapping my 2.5 ton for a 5 ton, then weight becomes less of an issue, but I think it will limit the places I would be willing to take it. For being a giant truck the lmtv does fit in some pretty tight places. I'm not sure how much of that I'd lose to the extra axles and length...

I'm trying real hard to keep the habitat removable so that I can continue to use the truck for other stuff when we are not traveling.

We have a 34 foot RV with 2 slides. One is a living room area with a dinette and a small love seat, the other is the bed. The bed slide really only goes out a couple of feet and provides just enough room to keep a king size mattress and allow you to walk around. Without the slide you'd either...

Hmmm. I looked at a custom 15 foot Conex box, and I think it weighed 5k or so. I guess the 10 footer might be less, but I was looking for something to maximize the space I have and 10 foot just didn't seem big enough.

Everything designed around the Conex/ISO containers is the same way. HEAVY.

Last one I found was 9500 pounds or somesuch.

Yeah, I'm surprised there are not more options for a camper box that would just slap down on a flatbed truck or trailer. I've seen folks drop a truck slide in camper onto the front of a big gooseneck trailer and load ATVs or SXSs behind it. But all of those slide in camper units are designed to...

I would love that, but all of the one's I've found weigh in at something like 9500 pounds. I'm thinking of cutting one of the walls out of the lighter box and fabricating a slide out of Unistrut. To make my own slide out that does not add 7000 pounds of dead weight to the back of my truck...

That's pretty much what I was thinking, but now I'm looking at one of these 14 foot shelters, which seem perfect for what I need.

Yeah. I think I want a 14 footer now too.

Man @TomTime, the more I look at that the more I think that's exactly what I need.

That's pretty perfect and nice. Thanks for pointing that out. It is a bit bigger than the 280, I'm not sure why it weighs 1500 more pounds though. I looked at several of the expandable van bodies or containers, but they were all super heavy... way too much to be lugging around on a lmtv.

I've found a ton of the 250's but scarce few of the 280's around. I worried about the weight of that m109 myself. Ideally, what I think I'd want is something like the s-280 shelter, but a few feet longer, to maximize the floorspace inside by allowing it to overhang the rear just a bit. I'm...

Thanks. I'm looking at all kings of stuff that might be made to work. I thought about lopping the axles of a camping trailer and sitting on there, but I don't think that would be rugged enough to survive actual off-road use. Conex trailers seem to be just too heavy to be practical. For my...

I've been watching the auctions pretty closely. All of the recent ones have been pretty clapped out and banged up. I was hoping to find a decent one from another member here so I could stop watching and waiting for a good one to hit the auctions.

Yeah, I have no idea how flat would sit. Hoping someone can speak to that. My current thought would be to make a frame or couple of cross bars out of heavy wall 2" square tube that would allow me to slip in a shackle or some kind of jacking leg near each corner to facilitate easy removal...