Tumbleweed houses

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Postby BufordT » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:24 am

For me I think I'll go with this one.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/rollinggothic.htm



All self contained and build in my backyard then take it up and leave it.

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Postby Joseph » Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:08 am

Hey Mike,

mikeschn wrote:But to full time in it? Are you sure you would want to do that? Especially with a wife and a dog???


I said almost! But then, I guess it just depends on how much of a Gypsy you are. "Vardo" is one of the names for the wagons used by Gypsies which this is patterned after. Entire families of Rom (Gypsies) and Irish Travellers live in wagons not much bigger than this - or at least they used to not so long ago. But as the song says,

...winds of change are blowing,
old ways are going,
your travelling days will soon be over.


From Freeborn Man of the Travelling People by Ewan MacColl

Anyway, here's a page on the Travellers - http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/travell.htm and one on Gypsy wagons - http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/wagons.htm

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Postby mikeschn » Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:24 am

I took this picture at the Renaissance festival here a couple years ago, just knowing it would come in handy. And sure enough, I must have taken it for you!!! 8)

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Postby Joseph » Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:43 pm

Thanks Mike - that's a truly great wagon. No 12" wheels on that rascal! :wink:

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Postby beverlyt » Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:56 pm

Bufordt - Yep..it's me that has property in Tennessee, though I would have to take the wheels off the tumbleweed house, no mobiles allowed...and that's pretty mobile! :lol:
Mike - I like the idea of the summer house. How many square feet is that one?
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Postby mikeschn » Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:43 pm

The summer house is 10x10. Built up with 4' wide panels, with a 2' panel in the middle.

Build it in your back yard, pile it on your teardrop, and take it down south!!! Well, you might want to leave your teardrop body at home when you haul the panels there!

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Postby Ron Dickey » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:46 pm

Just so you can see what is out there try doing a search using the below:

Under Google.com go to images and enter the following search words:

Gypsy wagon

Gypsy trailer

living van

freewheeling homes
(this book sells for $16.95 only 95 pages but covers tumbleweed, teardrops, gypsy wagons, and more.)

I found little on tumbleweed types.

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Postby Ron Dickey » Fri May 21, 2004 8:51 pm

tumbleweed type other designs by another company.

http://www.tinyhousecompany.com/HomesToGo.html

New ideas are always out there.

These to are way to big for tinny trailers but like was said before for those who own land and need a bigger place waiting and could build it in the backyard and truck it to the lot.

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Postby BufordT » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:59 pm

Hey Mikie,

Thought you'd like to see this tiny house. New. They be trying to set it up for the people in N. Orleans.

http://www.tinyhouses.net/HELP%20House/ ... intro.html

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Postby wa_flyfisher » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:39 pm

The owner of Tumbleweed homes was on Travel channel and he has plans to do an entire community of them in the future.
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Postby Arne » Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:09 pm

Right, good luck to him... He'll have to stick his new development out in the prarie somewhere, or at least where they have no zoning laws...

No one seems to be concerned about security, leaving something like this in the middle of no where..... You all must live in a better section of the country than I do.... and I'm not doubting that can be true.
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