![]() ![]() ![]() Was the vespa mainly for errands and such? How did the Vespa work out? I understand from the article that you got rid of the bikes at some point. Are there seatbelts there or is the rig big enough to not need them? I imagine it got pretty bouncy up there! I assume while driving the kids were riding in the booth in the back (it shows that on one of the videos). What did you do for cooling in the summer? I don't see an A/C, nor any powered fans or vents. How did you make the loop in the tanks to heat the water? Is it an open or closed loop system? With the Dickenson at one end of the trailer, how cold did the cabover get during the winter in Scotland? I assume that's where the radiant helped a lot. Is the shower in the bath and did you use recycled/filtered water for that as well? You mentioned a shower - from the videos and website I had assumed there was only the bath. Just one option we're considering.Īnyway, thanks for more pictures and info Doug! A few more questions for you since you seem to enjoy the interrogation! We're considering possibly getting a toyhauler, building something like this in the back, with leftover space reserved for a small garage. ![]() It's two "rooms" - one on the right for the two boys and one on the left for the daughter. This will fit in the space most RV's use for a rear queen bed - about 8X8 feet. I've been trying to figure out ways to efficiently get something similar for my three kids and so far this is the best I've come up (see attached pictures). The reason for heating the water tank was that it would absorb lots of heat quickly and then release it slowly over a long period of time with nothing running. I should made a drawing, its actually very simple, completely manual and worked well. When I wanted to use the bath without heating the cabin I closed off the coils in the water tank. Heating the bath would also heat the water tanks, to a lesser degree, and thus the entire cabin. The boiler would heat the stainless steel water tank- there was an extra coil in the hot water tank that I would circulate water from the bath through- after it ran through coils in the main water tank. I installed a blower fan for the dickinson diesel heater that worked so well we could have not used the radiant heat, but it was nice to take the edge off by heating the water tanks. It is very expensive and if you break the ceramic top as we did, it was $800 to fix! We have an installed microwave and a toaster oven that we kept in a cabinetĤ. It takes a bit to heat up, but works well. Propane would have been fine, it was easy to find everywhere, but I wasn't sure how available it would be and the single fuel, diesel, was great for peace of mind. We used toilets a lot, if we could park near a toilet I have a 20 foot pumpout hose with a ball valve at the end that I could drop in the toilet, otherwise I used two 5 gallon buckets and made 3-4 trips. In France, Germany and Italy the highway rest stops have dump stations. We have a 40 gal grey water tank and a 40 gallon black water tank. ![]() 5 people make lots of waste and I wanted to be able to dump at about the same interval as I took on water, about ten days. We had 2100AH of lifeline batteries, that was a luxury, I could have gotten by with 1/2 that but we would have really drained the batteries at times, which they don't like despite being deep cycle batteries.Ģ. The truck has a 320A alternator so if the sun wasn't enough the truck provided nearly the same juice as a 4K generator. The truck doesn't have a generator, but I reserved a space for it if the solar just wasn't cutting it, but it did fine. ![]()
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