Swampman, yes it does slide in or drop in. We have a few standard sized box trailers (utility to you) and 7 by 4 feet is one of the common ones, probably hundreds of throusands of them around the country. Most of these trailers are rated up to 750kg maximum load without brakes, and of course you can get them built to higer spec with brakes. My design is for a fairly regular duty type trailer and one without brakes (at this point - I have to weigh it in the end to be sure). Based on my boat building experience my estimated weight of the shell is less than 200kg, and the empty trailer weighs in at 220kg, so at a total of 440kg empty that gives me room to add the fridge, water tank, etc. As to how to move it on and off, there are several method: one could be an overhead pully system if you had it in a carport or garage of the required height to make it work. There are also at least two different kinds of jack stands that are used to lift off the "pick up truck" kind of slide on campers, they could be used as well. Four guys could lift if off pretty easy, in my design the tailgate of the trailer is retained and they could just slide it out without any lifting. You need to understand how trailer registration works here to appreciate the $ benefit of this type of camper. Anything that can be put on an unbraked box trailer does not attract any sort of inspection, and you have the trailer to use for all the other things people use them for. This design is for (at most) a couple of people for short-term trips (say up to two weeks self sufficiency). It will have solar panels and battery power lighting (my son's an electicial engineer and he has it all sorted), and probably one of the little 1hp mobile air con units. Camp stove, water tank, probably an attached awning, are the sort of things I'll carry. Some of the heavy stuff may go in the rear of my KJ CRD (like the fridge) to keep the trailed weight down. Hope that covers you questions. GD
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