A wanna be wilde life image maker's bus

Vintage Racer said:
That's one helluva ejector seat! :exit:
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I know:LOL::LOL::LOL:.

My darling said why does that have to live under my seat.it's a bomb :runaway: .................it's because of the cable layout babe came the reply...honestly it's going to be a massiive faff to pop it under my seat.......she frowned..................." I'm not sure I trust you any more!!!!! " :(

Soz mate whole saga still makes me giggle:ROFLMAO:

Glynn this was a tight tight fit...............despite all my best laid plans It ended up under my seat simply because I have seat swivels fitted to both seats. They are made by a company called RIB . Anyways to get the drivers to clear the handbrake whist swiveling...........there is a spacer which raises the whole seat and swivel. Simply even though the battery is designed to fit under a VW T seat on the passenger side I just couldn't make it work. and feel confident......................so the faff commenced. you have no idea how many cables got rerun and how much grief this caused me

It's utterly unfair shes got a camper van and me a bomb.........................that said it's me own blummin fault I designed it all.:LOL:

I'm quite a slim guy Glynn so basically if bomb does detonate I figure I'll just leave through the pop top in tact

landing might be fun though ?

PS despite my usual joviality......this battery was and is treated with massive respect...that little beauty can drop 500A for a while 200 A continuous, I'm always up for a giggle but this install was with a VERY serious head on ;).

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Still on leccy

we got a 1.7L kettle a 1000W caravan kettle...........as the summer draws in the solar is wacking so much into the LB that the blummin thing is always full. So while we are all paying silly amounts to the energy barons me fort why now have our cuppa tea for free. It's completely bonkers a 4.5A 230V kettle draws 85/6 amps from the LB at 12V..I can watch all this through the bluetooth gizmos more bonkers is it all works. It was primarily for at home use but it's transformed the stop for a quick cuppa in the van malarky as the wallas is preddy slow....and tis all free leccy from solar rather than desiel. This off grid leccy system still amazes me.

Back to the build here's a snap of the first cupboard
without the 2 mad curvy door fingies in place just after glue up...to the RHS you can see the big old vent I cut into the wood to allow heat to move away from the rear of the fridge

_S2I3119 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

with the fridge installed....it's a weaco CRX 65 by the way bigger then the normal size Transporter fridge and the curvy doors it looks like this.....and you can also see the middle cupboard in place as an aside

_S2I3158 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr



We managed to source some walnut veneer tambour doors, don't think I've shown you this here's rear cupboard...went for a matt varnish same type, rustins out door, this time. to contrast the birch ply

_S2I3282 tan smj by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

Ha brief interlude from writing to lie in the kitchen floor and make fox cub pics though an open front door.couldn't make it up.................. lol that was cool.

Back to bus.......ssshhhush already im easily dister-acted :runaway:

Back to bus finhed up wallas installed tambours whole shebang sort of finished up here

_S2I3361 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

and with mad door drawer open.............. worktop in a door open ( bonkers) overhead locker open it looks like this

_S2I3373 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

NB note HK army paintball arm pads in locker..........for old folks that scrubble about on stoney ground they don't ha;f help with elbows

Right that's enough for you horrible lot I'm off to look at DAYLIGHT fox cub pics:banana:

take care out there guys

one life

LIVE IT:)

stu
 
Vintage Racer said:
Simply brilliant work Stu.........a real pleasure to see a craftsman at work!

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Lovely words Glynn thank you........I'm .not worthy...mind I am bloody stubborn that makes up for a lot :LOL:

I think the nice bit (bar using it now), looking back is it was just done in a garden on an ancient workmate no workshop and some of it was rubbish . One of life's journeys Glynn;)

Haha and I still find the leccy bewildering
As we use the old girl I do need to make a couple more things...............drawers for under the bed..but baltic birch is now silly expensive and probably a table..like the ovano in the link probably...........................................what a fab design.but it's so so expensive I've been pondering making it and substituting the ali lump for something made out of ply.we will see on that one , no rush just want time to enjoy it now not work

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eULpYn7p8Ww
 
By God man, you have some skills! beautiful work! I think what I'd have done is look for a VW camper van to live in and pull an enclosed trailer behind to work in. Used to pull this trailer to dog firld trials to use to put photo's in my computer and print them and even mount into frames.



This is the inside of that trailer.



Top of the big table was a 13x19 printer, next to it toward the front of the trailed was my computer. Small table behind the chair was my 8 1/2x11 printer which i really didn't need! Raan the printer's and computer and inside light off a gas generator.
 
Don Fischer said:
By God man, you have some skills! beautiful work! I think what I'd have done is look for a VW camper van to live in and pull an enclosed trailer behind to work in. Used to pull this trailer to dog firld trials to use to put photo's in my computer and print them and even mount into frames.



This is the inside of that trailer.



Top of the big table was a 13x19 printer, next to it toward the front of the trailed was my computer. Small table behind the chair was my 8 1/2x11 printer which i really didn't need! Raan the printer's and computer and inside light off a gas generator.
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Don thanks so much for the words and sharing. your trailer that's really neat..............ha I dunno on skills, I'm preddy stubborn once I get my head down, Was very driven.wanted that interior to be a bit unique for my lady...something she cherished. There is alot of time huge number of hours making this Don. but the more we use it the more that time is forgotten.

The leccy system still amazes me Don frankly I'm stunned by it. The big lithium battery is an absolute diamond it just sucks energy in so fast when being charged ....and it's power output.well we can power a small leccy kettle off grid for a quick cuppa at the extreme end.

Don I drive teeny tiny roads often single track so for the niche of wildlife image making we inhabit the camper needed to be compact....... often times it's on the big side for those roads passing others can be a real 'mare....I spot our native roe deer from these quiet tiny roads a species I adore making image of, and of course other wildlife But roe , sort of simiilar to your white tail, but much smaller antlers are a quest for me .

Don roe are unique, they have a unique breeding stratergy .they rut in the summer and then delay implantation of the embyo.so the kids ( they are kids not fawns or calves) are also born in the summer. So although they are grey in winter coat and red in summer coat like whitetails they really are out there amongst deer............... a complete one off.

I imagine life to be very different here to stateside Don, England is so densely populated, now it's hard to find a quiet place , where one can't hear traffic. Hard to find a place to just stay overnight in a little van wildcamping they call it here. Everywhere one sees no overnight parking signs. Since covid so many folks got campervans and they don't respect the countryside, they leave litter everywhere and hence cause issues for all of us .
Tis a shame mate

i'm a child of the countryside take nowt but images try to leave no footprint, there is a sadness to my little humble camper dream right now Don

Anyways.........
This is Roe Don.....I'm amazed the first image is from 2016, didn't realized I had chased 'em so long :runaway: Just a ramdom selection for you of older frames that might be of interest to a guy from the other side of the pond

_70F7054 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_70F4296 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_S2I2803 sm J by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_70F8239Reobuck portait sm by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

take care
 
Stuart Philpott said:
Don thanks so much for the words and sharing. your trailer that's really neat..............ha I dunno on skills, I'm preddy stubborn once I get my head down, Was very driven.wanted that interior to be a bit unique for my lady...something she cherished. There is alot of time huge number of hours making this Don. but the more we use it the more that time is forgotten.

The leccy system still amazes me Don frankly I'm stunned by it. The big lithium battery is an absolute diamond it just sucks energy in so fast when being charged ....and it's power output.well we can power a small leccy kettle off grid for a quick cuppa at the extreme end.

Don I drive teeny tiny roads often single track so for the niche of wildlife image making we inhabit the camper needed to be compact....... often times it's on the big side for those roads passing others can be a real 'mare....I spot our native roe deer from these quiet tiny roads a species I adore making image of, and of course other wildlife But roe , sort of simiilar to your white tail, but much smaller antlers are a quest for me .

Don roe are unique, they have a unique breeding stratergy .they rut in the summer and then delay implantation of the embyo.so the kids ( they are kids not fawns or calves) are also born in the summer. So although they are grey in winter coat and red in summer coat like whitetails they really are out there amongst deer............... a complete one off.

I imagine life to be very different here to stateside Don, England is so densely populated, now it's hard to find a quiet place , where one can't hear traffic. Hard to find a place to just stay overnight in a little van wildcamping they call it here. Everywhere one sees no overnight parking signs. Since covid so many folks got campervans and they don't respect the countryside, they leave litter everywhere and hence cause issues for all of us .
Tis a shame mate

i'm a child of the countryside take nowt but images try to leave no footprint, there is a sadness to my little humble camper dream right now Don

Anyways.........
This is Roe Don.....I'm amazed the first image is from 2016, didn't realized I had chased 'em so long :runaway: Just a ramdom selection for you of older frames that might be of interest to a guy from the other side of the pond

_70F7054 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_70F4296 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_S2I2803 sm J by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

_70F8239Reobuck portait sm by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

take care
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I think living there would drive me nuts. Don't do well around lot's of people and sometime even where I live get's a bit much for me, pop maybe 30 depending on the day of the week. Spent three years in germany in the service and didn't spend a lot of time in cities. Wondered a lot why I didn't see more countryside on here. Now I know! Thank you for your reply!
 
Wow Stu, I have just read the entire thread. That is a very fine fit out you have done it reminds me of some of the boat refurbishment threads I have read on another forum.
I have an interest in both the woodwork and the electrical side of what you have done but there is no way I could keep at a project for so long, that would be why I have so many projects unfinished.
Here's hoping that you both get many happy years of use out of the van.
 
@zx9 Keith thank you.....me too on the last bit.ha I love the thing......we have been digging blummin spuds all day brutal in the heat.lovely to just spend an eve up in the wolds with some air have a brief nap and then look for a deer image..................tis a thing of luxury, having the bus, for a humble couple.

It's not just camping tis that mobile living space warmth heat cup of char and a bed.on tap.

The hardest bit, looking back, was not the time or some of the working conditions out side in the snow or frost is taxing....it was walking away from a dominant roe buck whom I knew was holding an area.to knuckle down and apply varnish and more vanish and more......

I've wanted to really bag roe rutting for so so long Keith and that is the bit in this build that wiil haunt me until the day I make the piccies I covet. I have him and another in a scrap but just didn't make the grade as a tog.

Wood an' me go way back, no training., wood allows me to make stuff I couldn't otherwise afford. The off grid leccy hmm I harp on about it ......it's sort of the last chink in a life skillset i've always wanted to own....................whether I'll ever apply that skillset to making us a log cabin in the stix seems unlikely......but it's that last cog that completes the wheel I've wanted a goodly while :)

WOW you read the whole thread......fank you,, now there's a thing:LOL:
 
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