Bob's caboose build

[ParTaxer]

Nice to hear from you Bob.

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

WOW A 3 MONTH ABSENCE ! I am gonna have to turn in my tiny trailer card if I don't get busy....... Today was just nostalgia day. I started at the front of my thread and read till my eyes bled. Man, simply looking back at all that work made me exhausted. I had to do some investigation. My side door install has failed thanks to water intrusion. I needed to get a look at the skeleton of the framing to see what I will be up against when I tear into the repair. It is nice that you can have the benefit of seeing what you did before burying the framing behind drywall and trim. As I peel the onion I will post more about this delima. A door leak went unchecked and water has destroyed a wall stud and a large portion of the floor and siding. It will be a gut job after easter. After Easter we will pull the gal pals prize Mustang out of hiding and I will have the tractor barn back to move the office furniture into while I make the repairs. This build was ultra cheap and sometimes that hinders your selection of the better options in materials and treatments. Poor folk have poor ways and sometimes that makes poor choices. This little house has kept me warm and dry and has proven to be a great fortress of solitude when I wanted a get away. It has proven to answer all my needs. In the last few years I have finally gotten ahead financially and could afford the big LP tank install and the addition of the internet These have both proven to be fantastic additions. More to follow !

 

[SparkyDog]

Bob,
Sorry to read about the wood rot.
I have been renting since last July when we sold our house at the height of the home buying mania in Florida and I sometimes miss being able to work on my own place.
You'll have that rotted wood fixed in no time, unless you go with the penetrating epoxy repair like the lazy boat owners use, to help speed it up. I built my own home back in 1983 - 950 sf, 3br, 1-1/2 ba and I spared no expense to do it right. I used treated wood mud sill plates, treated 1x6 for all the eave and soffit ends, etc. I hope to go by that house in Rossville, IL one day and see how well my craftsmanship has held up. It never occurred to me that I was building a house that would outlive me one day.
Mark

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

After 11 years I was finally able to clean and spit polish the inside of the caboose enough to get some good interior shots...... click to enlarge

 

[Greg M-TNT]

It hasn’t really been that long, has it? You’re makin me feel old

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

Here it is January and I was so bored I documented washing dishes in the tiny house way.

All summer I used the outside kitchen on the depot trailer but ice and cold has driven me inside.



I put several pics with comments in my album I am getting so out of practice I have forgotten how to post them

IT MAY BE ALSHEIMERS

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

Found an addition to the caboose at Goodwill for $6.00

 

[SparkyDog]

Hi Bob! Glad to see you are still perfecting the Caboose build -
I'm still in Cape Coral , FL, but in the 15 years since I moved here, I have begun to age into the nickname and slogan for this city, = Cape Coma "Home of the newly wed and the nearly dead!
Living in a rental house since 2022, means I can't indulge my mental fancy in planning and building a new tiny trailer- I did buy a used Gypsy Caravan book on ebay- just in case. Back in the 60's-70's, I saw stories in magazines like -I built a 10hp hydroplane racing boat in my living room or I built my Volksplane airplane in my bedroom. My wife won't allow that.
So, I am spending my time going to the estate sales (with a $10 budget) and then on Monday, I go back and look over the free stuff they put out on the curb.
Some finds from a week ago
A 1971, Tell City Indiana, hard rock maple table with two leaves- some minimal Hurricane flood damage (repairable for guys like us) made it a no-sale, so it was trashed- My wife wasn't home when I put it in the garage- I rearranged the other treasures to disguise it from my wife. hehe
Hiding under some wood on the pile I discovered a vintage ( My age or older) wood carving- I checked Tineye image search and there were zero matches, so this could be a one of a kind= $1000! - and I saved the last one in the world from the garbage truck.
Actually, I asked an antique furniture restorer and he said after WW2 Asian wood carved pieces similar to this showed up for sale or were brought back by military servicemen. I wish it could talk to me.
Have a great spring Bob- I'm afraid your have missed the planting season for snow peas, so just plant the regular ones.
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[working on it]

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Hiding under some wood on the pile I discovered a vintage ( My age or older) wood carving- I checked Tineye image search and there were zero matches, so this could be a one of a kind= $1000! - and I saved the last one in the world from the garbage truck.
Actually, I asked an antique furniture restorer and he said after WW2 Asian wood carved pieces similar to this showed up for sale or were brought back by military servicemen. I wish it could talk to me.
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That looks quite similar to carved panels, furniture, and household decorations that my dad's sister sent back from the Philippines between '47? and '56, while her husband was stationed at Clark Field (AF. After that, they were moved to James Connally Air Force Base, just south of our family's home area, Dallas-Fort Worth, so no more Asian carvings were forthcoming.

I remember seeing full walls of carved panels, a complete bedroom suite in my aunt's house, and every older relative had tons of the decorations in many rooms of their houses. There was also a lot of bronze stuff sent back home, but I don't know what country they came from. I actually received one thing from the Philippines, a decorated shield that had tribal knives and weapons displayed on it (cut from tin), when I was 6, IIRC. It hung on my bedroom wall until I moved away in '70. Don't know what happened to it, or any of the other stuff, after the families lost contact/moved on/died out by 2000. Some of it might've been valuable, but who knows?

 

[SparkyDog]

...
Hiding under some wood on the pile I discovered a vintage ( My age or older) wood carving- I checked Tineye image search and there were zero matches, so this could be a one of a kind= $1000! - and I saved the last one in the world from the garbage truck.
Actually, I asked an antique furniture restorer and he said after WW2 Asian wood carved pieces similar to this showed up for sale or were brought back by military servicemen. I wish it could talk to me.
...


That looks quite similar to carved panels, furniture, and household decorations that my dad's sister sent back from the Philippines between '47? and '56, while her husband was stationed at Clark Field (AF. After that, they were moved to James Connally Air Force Base, just south of our family's home area, Dallas-Fort Worth, so no more Asian carvings were forthcoming.

I remember seeing full walls of carved panels, a complete bedroom suite in my aunt's house, and every older relative had tons of the decorations in many rooms of their houses. There was also a lot of bronze stuff sent back home, but I don't know what country they came from. I actually received one thing from the Philippines, a decorated shield that had tribal knives and weapons displayed on it (cut from tin), when I was 6, IIRC. It hung on my bedroom wall until I moved away in '70. Don't know what happened to it, or any of the other stuff, after the families lost contact/moved on/died out by 2000. Some of it might've been valuable, but who knows?

Well waddya know, The wisdom of TNTTT members is all encompassing!
Thanks for that info!
Clark AFB was a plum assignment- I was told that some guys would reenlist, if they were promised in writing that the next duty station would be at Clark. Must have been a "fun" place.

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

Well it was started in June of 2012 and here it is 12 years later and this goes to prove tiny's are never really done. I was tired of crawling under the flip down desk (that has almost never been flipped down) to plug and unplug items.

Got out the key hole saw and decided to add mid wall duplex outlets

I had intended to find a way to feed power upwards from the lower outlet back to the new addition and look what I found quite by dumb luck...

Some how I was able to cut and remove 3 layers of foam without a bit of damage to the insulating sheath of the romex. So I no longer have to fish a wire up from below thru a wall stuffed solid with closed cell foam ( thank you lord) I was scratching my head as to how to allow the little arms that clamp the box to the drywall when the foam was in the way. I found a way to make a void in the foam without disturbing the drywall. Just chucked in an allen wrench and let it eat a pocket in the foam just big enough for the clamping arms to swing in place

Had to add a bit of length to get everything to reach but it all went into place

All done and the power back on and my circuit tester says I got them all in AOK

Foam stuffed walls are great but think ot your electrical well this would have been about impossible had I had to feed upward

 

[SparkyDog]

My senior aged joints can appreciate moving the outlets higher! Good idea.