#39 - In this week's instalment, we are taking apart one of the massive heavy duty leaf springs from the Bedford Truck, completely restoring it, leaf by leaf, bolt by bolt, and then putting it all back together again. Good as new!
We also start cleaning out and working on the petrol tank which we find has rusted through in a few places. How do we deal with this? By setting fire to it. Of course!
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We are Lisa & Tim and for the last 2 years we have been busy restoring this 1975 Bedford Firetruck which, in a moment of madness, we bought at the end of 2020 with the dream of turning it into an off grid rolling home on wheels. The dream is still alive ... just. After a few ups and downs, we are currently at the business end of this full on nut and bolt restoration. Having taken literally everything apart, we recently finished the arduous task of cleaning up and painting the 22ft chassis frame, and now we are working our way through all the stuff we removed from it ... From the engine to the humblest washer, it's all getting the star treatment. We're getting close. But for now, it's all in bits, and we're just taking it one day at a time ...
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This channel is the story of us, Tim & Lisa, and our attempt to build the World's Greatest HOUSE-on-WHEELS on the World's Smallest Budget ... A unique motorhome, if you like, part vintage 70s, part off road overlander, all tiny home on wheels.
We are 2 'old enough to know better' artists from Cornwall in the UK, and together we are building this off-grid home on wheels from the remains of a 1975 Bedford Firetruck.
We bought the truck on eBay at the end of 2020 and had it delivered by an even bigger truck to a huge, old barn-on-a-farm we are renting to use as our workshop whilst we undertake this challenge.
Well, several months and a few set backs later, we’re currently in the process of ‘lovingly’ restoring the base vehicle, taking the whole thing apart, piece by rusty piece, so we can make it all new and shiny again, before we embark on the even bigger task of building a home on its back out of nothing more than grit, imagination, sweat, tears and possibly a bit of magic and wishful thinking!
Oh, and tea!
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Music in This Video as Follows:
Peace Be Still (Instrumental) by The Hunts
The Juggler by Ben Bostick
Ohio by Low Light
Fire & Gasoline by David Jack Marshall
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19 ноя 2022
