WINTER CAMPING in a DIY Travel Trailer with a Wood Stove

Hello everyone, hope you've been enjoying the video so far. Thanks for joining Eddie and I on our first trip ever. And we're doing some winter camping. We're going to be here for two nights and we're off the beaten path. And the main reason why I wanted to go on a trip was to fine tune some of the things that I need to organize with Eddie. And quite frankly I have been working on Eddie kind of non-stop from the fall on and I've been stressing over it and I really just needed a break. You know this time of year I love getting out and camping so it just didn't seem right to me to grab a canvas tent or my pickup truck. I see Eddie in the driveway and it just seemed natural that it was time to take him on a trip. So one of the biggest benefits so far of this trip has been setting up Eddie, realizing all the things that are required to set up a trailer and they need spots. Everything has to go somewhere. So inside of Eddie as you can tell it's a construction zone. He's just a shell. I've finished the shower, I've basically stapled up some craft paper just to keep the insulation in and kind of make it look a little cleaner for filming in this video. But the inside is very much unfinished, it's a construction project. But I am getting to the point where I need to start building in storage places. What I'm on right now for example, this is where the bed is going to be when it's finished but right now I simply have four plastic totes under here with some scrap plywood and I've got my bed. This is my mattress that I use for my truck camping videos. And it's been comfortable but this is where the bed will be when the trailer is done. And underneath here will be the pullout outdoor kitchen. So the stoves and sinks and all that stuff will slide out outside under an awning and all that stuff. But for now this is what I've got going on here. This area here is eventually the water tank I'm thinking is going to be near the wheel well here and I have to get some batteries. I have some exciting news about batteries and that sort of thing that I'll be sharing with you in the future. Hot water heater, water pump, that's kind of going to be the utility area there across from the wood stove. Going to be a desk here and some other things and underneath the front window is going to be my kitchen counter. So in the video you'll see that I have kind of a portable little table I just got at Home Depot and it's nice and light and it goes on top of the cooler and that replicates what that area will actually be. That will be my kitchen. So the cooler or some kind of electric cooler maybe in the future will slide out from the bottom. I have a nice deep countertop with a sink and running water and storage above the window. So I'm really looking forward to that. So what I'm finding on this trip already is just things a mess. So I have kind of everything is kind of unorganized. Because Eddie is a shell I couldn't tow him down the road, down the highway with loose stuff just randomly stored in here. So I had to pack everything into my truck and when I got here I literally unloaded my truck and put all the items back into the trailer here while I'm here for the two days. It's not too bad but it really makes me look forward to just having everything have a place. So I know that I don't have to pack these black storage pins and you know it's going to be really nice that everything has a spot and I'm really looking forward to that. So I'm not going to talk too long. If you're new to the channel I have built Eddie my 7x12 travel trailer from scratch. It's been a year since I've started this. I have about 16 episodes on my channel if you want to check them out and see how I got to this point. And if you haven't already done so subscribe and see more. Obviously there's going to be more build but I think I'm going to get to the point where I start to take him on some trips. So the videos may be a blend of construction video and maybe a trip video here and there. Ideally in a perfect world I'd like to get away and maybe work on the inside while I'm on trip fishing or whatever right. So that would be nice. So we'll see if that materializes in the future. So I'm getting ready to turn in for the night. I'm pretty tired. I'm going to do some video editing and download some of the footage that I took today. And just sit and relax by the wood stove in my nice trailer. Very excited for that. And I will see you for breakfast in the morning. Alright everyone I'm going to wrap up the video. Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed that little hike. So I've already learned a quick tip about camping in the winter with a trailer. Last night it was actually warm. It got above freezing. It was plus 2 around midnight and it was actually raining a little bit. Water was dripping off the trailer. It plummeted throughout the night. It's like minus 5 with a wind chill of like minus 17 celsius right now. The wind is just howling. And everything is frozen. So the scissor jacks on the trailer froze up in puddles of water. But I was thinking that this might have been a problem looking at the forecast and I brought some rock salt and sprinkled it on there about an hour ago and it's worked out really well. So first tip from winter camping with a trailer I learned I might have been stuck in the ice and that would have been a problem. So I hope you liked the video. If you did please give it a thumbs up. I'd really appreciate it. If you haven't already done so subscribe for more adventures and I'd love to have you along for the journey. Thanks for watching. Cheers.