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[kbaumgarten]

I'm looking for design ideas for a dolly for a FWC Hawk. It needs to roll 50' on gravel so I'm thinking 10' pneumatic casters. Anyone built one like this? Thanks!

[DavidGraves]

Howdy

 

Don't even bother....just buy or borrow a suitable trailer......

 

David Graves

[PJorgen]

Best of both worlds: add a tongue and hitch to your dolly so you can tow it across the gravel. 

[CrudTruck]

I use a second hand el cheapo Harbor Freight folding trailer around here.  It can be schlepped around with a small tractor (probably not a riding mower type, though) as long as the surfact is fairly level.

 

The trailers are fairly common on Craiglist.  And you can use them for other stuff if you put the camper on its jacks.

 

I've used 8" casters to make a number of Very Large Things (300 gallon compressor, f'rinstance) sort of portable.  Those are too small unless your gravel is very smooth and well packed.  10" casters might work, or 12" garden trailer tires (though you'd have to figure out someway to make those steerable).

 

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I'm looking for design ideas for a dolly for a FWC Hawk. It needs to roll 50' on gravel so I'm thinking 10' pneumatic casters. Anyone built one like this? Thanks!

We also have a gravel driveway, and I built a stand for my pickup canopy.  Lesson learned was to go with solid rubber tires.  I used inexpensive Chinese pneumatic castors from Harbor Freight.  In just over a year two of the tires have rotted.  

[ntsqd]

If a true dolly is the goal then I would use something like wheel barrow tires and make one end steer like a lil red wagon.

 

Otherwise one of the HF/NT kit trailers sounds like an easier and better plan.

[5outta6]

I also use a Harbor Freight trailer with a piece of plywood.  Allows me to go in and out of the camper and not worry about it. And its easy to move around. 

 

 My trailer is the heavy payload HF trailer which looks like a heavier axle but with HF, who knows.....

 

One could probably forego the truck and just secure the camper to the trailer.