The home built foamy truck camper is COMPLETE! (How much did it weigh?) Ep. 18 

Wow! 440lbs? So basically no need for jacks to slide in and slide out of the truck. Just invite 4 of your big buddies and ask them to lift it for you. Just give them beers afterwards. 😜

Your compact Travel Cabin is really lovely, with a stylish, modern, professional appearance! The weight is nothing short of outstanding, and unequalled, that's quite an achievement that merits respect. I find your compact Travel Cabin to be elegantly simple and simply elegant...

Gotta say really nice job!Thanks for sharing and especially build details that will really help anyone else on their build.

440 pounds is 198kg (for everyone else in the world outside USA). Epic.

You did a fantastic job on your build! Amazing finish on the paint, too!

Just did a Deni... binged the episodes. First, thank you! Just an outstanding job. Like you, I struggled to find a "manufactured" solution for my 2014, F-150, 5'-6" bed, and yeah, I cannot bring myself to justify dropping the dough to accommodate the high cost for a commercially built insulated cab-over camper: Especially for my very single purposed, inexpensive, overnight fishing excursions. I do not need all the latest, greatest engineering, and creature comforts for my fishing trips. However, I do want some comfort from the dynamics of seasonal weather and when first saw your DIY build, I instantly thought "PERFECT!" During and after binging twice though all 18 episodes I continue to ponder some type of cantilevered "cab-over" portion that would extend the interior front to back distance so I can ceiling store my one piece rods with reels and enough strength to support the weight of a bed utilizing the space as the sleeping quarters. Perhaps a bit more fiberglass and patterning to increase strength? Or insetting some sort aluminum frame into the foam?🤔 Anyway, although I am awaiting your video on cost - total, breakdown, etc., I am confident the cost of your build is dramatically less than a commercially manufactured build. Circling back to increasing interior length for space and structural support for the weight of a sleeping adult, I am certain there is solution to my question for extending the cab-over portion that will also still provide plenty of payload weight capacity to spare. When I come up with a cost effective yet sturdy enough design I will be embarking on build inspired by your build. Again, thank good sir.👏

Simple and light. I love love love👍

duuuuude this is incredible!! just came across foam construction today and your videos came up and woooow great addition to the "youtube encyclopedia" ,love that by the way. superb sir , 400 pounds! live long and prosper dude

Holy Heck !!!! wow that's amazing 440 Frigin A !! so impressed that's amazing

Only just seen your build, you have done a great job very strong and light loads better than the commercially available Campers Really like the look of it

Well done CJ Looks awesome mate

I really like the idea of how you build it as for the floor that is where you get all of your spare hit storage make a false floor that you can lift up carpet it with that indoor outdoor carpet and boom one and done

Excellent 👍

Great build!

Most slide ins weigh over 1,000 for the smallest. Outstanding! I'm building mine just like this! My question is how do I make a cab-over bed to support my skinny 150 pound butt?

Great job 👏

Amazing project 👍

[I, wanted to build a slide in trk camper like you just built but I just don't have the time because of my long hour job that I work so I went out to the rv dealership and bought a good used 2003 Jayco legacy 40ft tandem AXLE with 4 slide outs 5th wheel rv but pulling that long 40ft long rv up and down the hwy is a big task and lots of skills I had to also buy a chevy duelly trk with a 5th wheel bed hitch I, only took it out on the hwy one time to go camping now it sets in the back yard. again, I have enjoyed you're videos on building you're dying slide in trk camper it looks great]

You have your home from home now you can and go and chase the stars 🌟

440 pounds!!! WOW! that is awesome!

Nice job.

[great, build]👍

Just binge watched your camper build and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing and your insight on a lot of details of interest to me. My only suggestions/requests would be links to the products you used and holding off on your previews at the end a bit longer cause they cut into some writing or visuals I would’ve liked to have seen. Otherwise wonderful videos and I hope you n your lil pup are really enjoying your camper!👍

I asked Gemini "In Georgia Astronomy "Building a foamy truck camper" youtube videos where does he show how the camper will be attached to the pickup bed" no luck. Guess I have to watch all your videos!

Great job! I skimmed through the videos but I believe if you lined the inside of the camper with plywood and a layer or two of fiber glass as opposed to outside it would have greater tensile strength and shear resistance, you still need to fiberglass a couple layers on outside for dent and scratch protection and waterproofing but don't need plywood on outside. Doing it this way would also protect the plywood from any water intrusion. I'm no expert but I've watched many boat building videos.

That's about what I suspected for weight. My foam teardrop without the trailer weighs about 450 but it has aluminum skin.

[thank, you for you're video]👍

Question, if you build a foamy truck camper with a true cabover that held a bed facing west and east. Similar to an old Bigfoot 6-11 design. Would that support the weight for two adults?

Would be a good idea to install some red lights on a currect so you can see better outside

love the build

How do you have it attached to your truck so it doesn't fly out at 400 lbs? I have seeing a few Kinbo Campers without any tie downs or anything and it freaks me out. Cool set up.

It really came together. Q: Wouldn't it seem safer to have the gray water jug on the bottom, so it could never possibly leak into the fresh water jug?

Great series. How did the star observations go from the inside of the camper?

Great job just one question I had was on the air conditioner how did you address any condensation drainage?

I have nothing but shear admiration for original thinkers. I wonder what a wet-bath and 40 Gallon Fresh/ 40 Gallon Gray-Black would add. Tony

Lol good luck

Looks awesome! Has this been tested on the highway yet?

I would actually like to see the camper !

Just discovered your page. Thanks for the videos. Pardon my ignorance, why would you get sued?

Final thought. How do you plan on keeping it in the truck on the freeway?

Maybe I missed it but how did you support the "wings" and over cab area to bear weight?

Great job on the build...so how much did it cost to build ?

Would like to see lisr of materials with sources. I am building a 18X36' house boat on pontoons.

I had this idea a while back. After looking into a bit I saw videos showing that fiber glass resin gets warm when curing and melts the foam. I’m assuming the brand of fiberglass resin does not have that problem?

Much lighter than my 4 Wheel Grandby.

What was the total cost of you camper?

Really want to know about the insulation value of your build. Living in Texas where if you don't integrate cooling into the build then you're a mummy in 3 days.

Nice work! What was your total cost to build?

I was really juiced when I saw your first few episodes of the build completely with foam and fiberglass and then out came the plywood covering the fiberglass and the wood framing to bloat the weight. Why? The entire camper could have been made with foam and been glassed inside and out, and the fiberglass did not need to be nearly so thick especially if you were using high strength S-glass cloth and no chopped fiber. The inside should have been glassed so that attachments for cabinetry and other build out item could be epoxied to the glass. The fiberglass exterior could have been sanded and painted a nice gloss white to reflect the sun keeping things cool in the summer.

Just a comment if anyone is going to build a lightweight camper, you may want to one add some additional bracing for the roof and always us marine plywood after the shell is done and keyed together

I wander how much “off gassing “ all kinds of chemicals are coming from these walls ? I really like the concept and build so don’t take it as criticism. Just curious if there isn’t any serious health risk.

cost breakdown?

Is there an email address I can communicate with you?

WhT does your Japanese tattoo say….tourist

Nice build... Let me know if you see Nibiru coming... Lol This is from the enuma Elish Scholars compare it to the Book of Genesis and admit it is describing the formation of our solar system. The Enuma elish was sung aloud every spring equinox celebration, all across ancient Mesopotamia, for around 3,000 consecutive years, and over the rise and fall of three great biblical civilizations Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon itself. It must have been incredibly important to these people, for it to have been celebrated and revered for so very long. Now it seems God has seen fit to reveal it again, to this generation, as proof and testimony to his greatness and Glory. This is Part of the knowledge originally passed from God to Enoch, then on through Noah and his sons, who founded these very ancient civilizations, where it was told and retold and celebrated for so very long. The Enuma elish also answers every anomaly in our solar system that modern planetary scientists struggle to explain, like why the Moon is so big and so close to the Earth, why the Earth has way more water than they calculated should, why the planet Venus rotates backwards on its axis, why the planet Uranus rotates on its side, why the asteroid belt exist, and why Pluto transverse the orbit of Neptune, to name a few. Planet nine as they call it, has already been mathematically discovered, in much the same way we first discovered planet Neptune. It's real name is planet Nibiru, and it will likely devastate the Earth on its next crossing, approximately a thousand years from now. Feel free to fact check any and all of this, that your eyes might be open to the knowledge of the truth. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xW0ER-DtW_o.htmlsi=RAB-lSs3Yuwgtoh6

This camper is so light that it can float on water!