by Danomite » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:46 pm
Ok, so with them throwing an extra guy into our weekend rotation at work it has made it so I have weekends off when my son is at his mom's. Not a real good thing for me.
So, rather than sit around catching cabin fever, I dove into a project that I have been planning for awhile: A canned-ham type camper.
I'm too old to sleep on the ground in a tent, and don't like having to deal with setting up, taking down, and drying one out at home after it got rained on.
I like teardrop campers, but I don't like the idea of trying to change my clothes while laying on my back.
I am making a 1" square tube steel 16 ga. (thin wall) skeleton with an aluminum skin pop riveted over it. My goal is to be under 800lbs. It will have a 8 foot long body, 76 inches wide. The frame is an old popup camper that I bought years ago very cheap, I had gutted it and used it as a chicken coop for some laying hens for a couple years, hence the egg-shape I ended up with is ok with me.
My goal is to have it useable by this summer.
It will have 2 single bunks, as I am divorced 3 times & have come to the conclusion that pairing up with another woman would only make both of us miserable. So a single bunk will suit me fine. It will have a small room for a porta-potty (I just hate the pit privvies that most of the state & national forest campgrounds around here have). Other than that, I am hoping for there to be enough room for a cooler and a Coleman stove.
My tow vehicle will currently be a '16 Kia Soul with a 6-speed manual. But, I also have a T-Bucket type of rat rod roadster if I ever put serious effort into finishing it.
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Danomite on Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:43 pm, edited 2 times in total.