Thread: camper trailer stone guard

Not a new idea...

Adventure Campers was using this style of system from Day 1..

And may I say it works brilliantly... All debris is shoved under the towed object with no chance to bounce back the vehicle in front.

I seen something like this a few years ago l.....

Great idea, just finished a camper trailer build and was thinking of making something along theses lines, might just buy one.....

We had a home made version in 2004 for the Simpson Desert, you can juuuuuuust see it in the pic.
$500 is a lot when it's not hard to make a simpler style yourself.

Originally Posted by Larry

We had a home made version in 2004 for the Simpson Desert, you can juuuuuuust see it in the pic.
$500 is a lot when it's not hard to make a simpler style yourself.

would you mine taking some close up of you stone guard...

cheers

Originally Posted by Larry

$500 is a lot when it's not hard to make a simpler style yourself.

My thoughts too, even with gas struts.

He has just copied a 'Stone Stomper' and charged a few bucks less for what looks like a poor quality copy with a couple of variations.

STONE STOMPER STONE GUARDS


cheers,
Terry

I have an Adventure Camper Trailer and the stone guard supplied is similar except that it connects to a cross bar attached to the tow coupling. This means that there is no gap even when cornering and that the guard must have elastic connections.

This is a picture from the Adventure website:




I have found that it works very well and it is easy to deploy/attach. The light brown flap at the front stays with the car when the trailer is unhitched as it covers the cross bar which bolts to the tow coupling.

I ran a Stone Stomper up the oodnadatta track then some more dirt to give it a work out. It worked well. I needed to bend the front bar up a little after I found the very outside edge of the trailer got sand (stone) blasted back to bare metal.

Must mention that along with the mesh and bar he sent all brackets, screws and even a socket to use in a eletric screw driver for installing the brackets on the trailer.

The hamering the edge of my trailer got untill I adjusted the front bracket made it plain this was worth its cost. You could make your own. The whole kit and efficent design was worth the money. 10/10 from me.
thanks TerryO