Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

[dales133]

Lol.

[Ned]

here is a pic o the white oak shadow RV ply i got;


and today i did some more trailer work. This is upside down, but i welded in the plated to bolt the floor to (9 of them)


and the rest of the bracing


now doing the last drawing of the mid wall, so i can cut those out tomorrow so we can start going vertical!

[Ned]

and i asked my little brother if he could come help me move a couple sheets of ply from Remuera to Onehunga, and this is the result



seems a little inefficient if you ask me haha

[dales133]

Nice progress

[Ned]

me and my buddy stood on the middle beam, together putting 300kg, aka 660 lb (or just shy of) on it and we gave it a little bounce and was solid, so pretty happy should be nice and solid! and kinda heavy maybe

[Ned]

Taking out too much? i always hear that people wish they took out more etc, so thought this was pretty good...

[Sheddie]

That side wall looks good. It looks like you have all the mounting points for cabinets etc covered. Main thing is that anything you want to screw to the walls have something solid behind them. We have found that if we are likely to get any condensation on the inner walls it is where we haven't cut the ply out.

[dales133]

I like

[Sheddie]

I take it from the line between the recesses for the roof beams that they will be sitting on top of the 4' sheet, with packers between. We did the with ours, it gave as a little bit more head room inside. The only thing is that you need to allow for the extra height on the exterior cladding. We used 1.5 m wide ACL and used the off cuts for drawer fronts.

[Ned]

that is exactly right, but wont really have any extra head room. It's still is 1200 high overall and 2700 long

piece of wood on the machine


chop chop chop


ready to drive back home


and mocked up

[Sheddie]

Good progress Ned. It's handy to have access to a machine like that.

[dales133]

Yea! Made my sidewall cuts look dark age..use all your favors and convenience where you can.
NJ bud

[felixx]

aweswome work

[Ned]

Thanks guys i obviously didnt do much of it haha but it does look good, and i'm very happy with it!

To cheat a bit more, i managed to get someone to cut up some more plywood with his table saw for all of the galley bits and bobs, so i can get started on that soon!

[Ned]

looks like i have an evening or two worth of assembly to do here...
all the wood for the galley cut

Main bulk heads out of 17mm, and the rest out of 12