In a word, impressive! I’d like to know if you were working to a bought plan or no plan at all (made it up as you went along). Either way you’re a very capable person. A Victorian I note too! Maybe I’ll see you out there one day. Cheers. 😉👍
Thanks! I spent maybe 3 months designing it on SketchUp software before i bit the bullet and started buying stuff. Sadly the van hasn’t moved in months due to work getting in the way, but I’ll be back out there soon enough!
Came here as was considering building my own caravan, but I think I'll just buy one after watching that. That was impressive and you must have a wide range of skills and knowledge to put that together. How do you know what to order in the first place, so many unique things that go into a caravan.
Fabulous build mate. I've been watching a lot of square drop builds on RU-vid with a view to building my own. You've got a tonne of skill sets, I'm signing up for a welding course cause that's my weak spot. Where did you buy the Fibre composite wall sheet if you don't mind me asking? I'm in Melbourne.
Great work. Just got a 4m Discovery and am thinking of doing something similar with an old tinnie trailer - you gave me some great ideas. Only wish mine had the break back option. How's your trailer holding up now? Anything you'd do differently? Cheers
Enjoyable viewing. I'm planning a trip soon from Bourke to Wilcannia, can you advise your travel times between Bourke - Louth, Louth - Tilpa & Tilpa - Wilcannia and also which road was better driving the west or east options? Cheers
This was over a year ago now and the road changes every wet as you know. Most of the way i only had one side or the other as an option as it had only just opened from some wet weather. I’m struggling to remember which side where now, and also how long individual stretches took. I think the most i drove in any day was 3 hours and i spent maybe 4 days in the actual river run, the balance of the week being on the side trips. Hope that helps.
How did you go with the rivets wearing holes into the jerry tanks? I swapped out the rivets with SS 5x 4 x 10 chicago screws from ebay/ China. Use red or green loctite and they will stay put.
Hi Craig. Rewatching your build series now that Im actually doing it and finalising the detailed dsign stage. Have you been happy with the 6L Ausj HWS??. Looks pretty good. Is it hungry on power? Do your water tank breathers come up into cabinetry?. When filling do they not spill over into cabinetry? Cheers gavin
Hi Gavin - the HWS is good. Works well. It’s only really good for a quick wash off though. I’d probably look at 10L if you want a decent shower. I think it pulls about 20 amps across the hour to warm up, but then to maintain temp it’s a lot less. I usually switch it on ahead of the shower then switch it off until the next one. The water breathers follow the fill line back to the fill point cap. When it over flows it comes out a small hole above the fill point and spills outside the van. In reality it actually starts gurgling and spurting back out the fill point first.
If you check the channel, episode 1 of the build series i do a walk around and design rationale. It wasn’t 100% finished at that point, but pretty close.
Nice bould! Once i had bould one.. in europe they didnt understand. Offroading with a camper? I loved it. Double axels! Greetimgs from the netherlands ❤
Congratulations, excellent work. I'm a retired builder and welder and your work is top notch! last camper caravan I built didn't have any of those modern materials, but old school aluminium frame and cladding. You deserve lots of praise and thanks for the post. I would love to know what the adhesive was you were copiously applying? Sems it must be great stuff.
You earned my subscription with this build. I'm not joking when I say this is the best home camper build that I've ever seen. I've seen a lot, by the way. Great job! Are you a pro cabinet maker by trade?
Open bow is a terrible design for fishing. As soon as swells start hitting you, you will feel every wave that comes unto you. Also this boat has 1-2 chambers? which means, any shark attack, or reef puncturing your main chamber, your boat will go under. For any inflatable boat, especially ocean worthy, you need at least 3-4 chambers to begin with.
Toomuch ad, don't know may be that's your income. Do you do anything else for survival? Sometimes I wonder those people move around bush, what is their income? How do they buy car, food etc.
@@PerpetualTransient keep doing the bush trip. So we can watch the bush life sitting in our comfort zone. I believe it is hard. Thanks for your nice videos.
Brought the 300 watt solar blanket. It only puts out 145w. I Will never buy anything from a one store wonder. It’s too hard, to get the solar panel fixed. Will now have to buy an additional solar panel, to replace this useless itec one, will go to BCF. Itec, technical support, is pathetic, no customer care, skills.
I’ve heard a few say they had panels with low outputs but itech seemed to be pretty good at swapping them over i thought. Mine is still going strong after a few rough and dusty trips.
Exterior is called fibreglass composite panel and the internal is called purelite which is a pvc material. Both light but very strong. Most Aussie vans now made out of these or similar.
G'day Mate, found your channel by pure luck and love the idea, build and most of all the time you put in recording the videos. I am going to build one myself, was looking at a squaredrop, but with the ideas I wanted to fit on my project the smaller trailer wasn't going to cut it. Saw your first video a few days ago and decided a van your size roughly would be right for me. I subscrided, gave you the 👍🏻, now I'm going through the rest of your videos to put pen to paper. It inspiring your work shall keep watching the rest of the videos and the channel for updates and more projects. Again well done. 👍🏻👍🏻
Hey mate, Just a quick tip when folding down the TrueKit. It's actually easier to fold the boat as you deflate it - instead of waiting 10 minutes as you said. What I mean by that is, once you release the pressure start to fold over the pontoon and get it into that position you eventually got it in where the black rubber scuff strip is facing upwards. By doing it this way with air still in the chambers it's a lot easier to manipulate the fold. It's very hard to demonstrate without actually showing you as there are many other small tips and tricks - but that's the main thing you are doing that's making your life harder when folding it down. I'll suggest a "Folding your TrueKit - Tips and Tricks" video to the team at Truekit, I'm sure it'll help a lot of people out!
