GPW wrote:"Would foam walls support enough weight to make use of the bunks? “ ... Maybe if you installed some braces ... Basically vertical wood strips that support the bunk pipes ...
The way they seem to have done it was, if you look at the 3rd through 4th pics, there are recessed brackets in the walls that go all the way through the outter skin. Those are those little square plates that you see on the outside at window height in the 3rd pic.
So, near as I can tell, all that appears to be holding it in the original design are the skins, unless there is a cross member directly below the bracket.
I was thinking that, if you used thicker foam... say at least 1"... maybe 2" with luan skinned on the outside that it would accomplish more or less the same thing?
The canvas support poles are more or less connected the same way, I guess.
Oldragbaggers wrote:That is very cool. Never seen anything like it before, and I LIKE it.
I hadn't either.
Some of the sketchups I came up with previously were based on a simple tent-type design. I happened to log into youtube a few days ago and there were a couple of "folding caravan" suggestions that it had made for me based on some of my previous searches.
There was a 10 minute video from the UK on the subject. One of these was in the video. So, naturally, I had to do some digging.
Not sure how many they made all together. They were apparently all hand made at the time so they could be tweaked a bit to fit individual needs.
My thought was, instead of doing the two individual bunks where the flip outs are, to take where the table sits in the interior pic and put a removable bed base that goes across the trailer as a double bed. Or, one could do a drop down table.
As it sits now, all the beds seem to be singles.
Great for a hunting trailer, though.
I also liked the Propert Folding Caravan from the same time period. Not sure if it could be done as a foamie, though. Although, if the Wild Goose could be...
