how to protect against ants

[sparkieqld]

Question, how to stop ants making a home in your trailer?

Have just cleared a spot in the back corner of our yard to park up my two trailers but know if we get a wet weather avent the ants here move in to anything above ground.

Tried doing a search but only come up with a page full of things with words like want with ant in it so a bit useless.

What methods do people use to stop the little critters?

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

You could get 3 trays for each trailer.  Unless you've got tandem axles on them.
Sit the trailer on the trays one under each wheel, making sure there's a bit of room on each tray around the tyres.
Including the jockey wheel on the A frame.
Either spray the trays with crawling insect killer, 6 month residual type.
Or fill the trays with water and keep topping them up.
If you put the stabilizer legs down you'll have to do the same to them.
If you park them under a tree, the critters drop off the trees, so it might be a losing battle.
Even spiders get in on the act.

Hope that's acceptable.
You might have to jack the trailers up to put the trays under.
Hope someone else has a better idea, mines a bit labour intensive.

[edz]

OOps slow at typing beat me too it 
Im going to put three cement pavers down [ for the Jockey and two main wheels ] on this will be a tray with  a 100mm x 100mm x 50mm x 3mm offcut, on top of the 100 x 100 will be a slightly larger than the base inverted tray [ to stop water getting into the bottom tray ] .
The trailer gets put up on the top tray hat and is totaly isolated from the ground, the bottom tray then gets oil poured into it ants climb up onto bottom tray and get stuck in oil bath ..
Orange is top tray
Yellow is 100 x 100 x 50 mm Spacer
Black is bottom tray

[prodigyrf]

Made the mistake of squeezing into a tight cosy bush camp area and a leafy branch was up against the Jayco and got overrun with the beggars as soon as the tucker came out. Naturally I blamed her indoors for leaving the spray behind 

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

Made the mistake of squeezing into a tight cosy bush camp area and a leafy branch was up against the Jayco and got overrun with the beggars as soon as the tucker came out. Naturally I blamed her indoors for leaving the spray behind 

"And then the fight got terribly worse" ?

[Bushman]

Yep water trays on any point in contact with the ground, talcum power around any point with contact with the ground  a good surface spray ,  I once heard spraying something like Lanotec underneath will stop the gremlins nesting apparently they don't like it.

My van parks on gravel at home and no trees around it, but have had trouble with ants wasps nesting
I have a feeling the ants may have nested in the frame somewhere, as the van is usually on power when at home, I'm thinking of giving one of those electronic pest gizmos a try from  Pest free, had good results in the past from using one in the house

[kylarama]

Why not give the wheels, jockey wheel and chassis a decent coat of outdoor surface spray every few months?

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[sparkieqld]

Thanks for the replies guys, seems like it is a fairly common problem.

I might go with the water idea by getting a some of cheap axil stands from K mart and standing them in metal buckets full of water.