Bike Rack
This is our new profile,
had to make some kind of "Bike Rack". Didn't want to increase our already tall clearance needs, and didn't want to figure someway to put our dirtied rides inside . . . so . . . a rack along the same lines as Mr J. Gato's. The main needs were to have a place for the bikes, and to keep branches and such off the box front.
Have to have our "rides" w/ us. Sometime (often) we are far enough "out" that leaving a major brakedown and walking to some source of help is more like a survival trek. A good mtn. bike can get me 100 miles in two days . . . and carry all the stuff I'd want w/ me, they're our "REAL" bug-out rigs
Up the mountain again to visit our Mech Master friend, the one that helped us w/ "Going Single" and swapping out the tranny. Once there I became the helper
Two days later we've got this. Now remember we are having a heat wave this last week . . . just into the triple digets at the base camp, a bit cooler up the mountain. Still it was hot enough that the welder shutdown on us. At that point we just started holding the metal together in the sun . . . think it's called "solar welding". Seems to have come out ok.
Will prob start out by temp mounting the Batts for the box up there . . . I'll find a real place for them after the trip.
Still need to do all the clean up and painting . . . just thought you might want to see.
This is our new profile,
had to make some kind of "Bike Rack". Didn't want to increase our already tall clearance needs, and didn't want to figure someway to put our dirtied rides inside . . . so . . . a rack along the same lines as Mr J. Gato's. The main needs were to have a place for the bikes, and to keep branches and such off the box front.
Have to have our "rides" w/ us. Sometime (often) we are far enough "out" that leaving a major brakedown and walking to some source of help is more like a survival trek. A good mtn. bike can get me 100 miles in two days . . . and carry all the stuff I'd want w/ me, they're our "REAL" bug-out rigs
Up the mountain again to visit our Mech Master friend, the one that helped us w/ "Going Single" and swapping out the tranny. Once there I became the helper
Two days later we've got this. Now remember we are having a heat wave this last week . . . just into the triple digets at the base camp, a bit cooler up the mountain. Still it was hot enough that the welder shutdown on us. At that point we just started holding the metal together in the sun . . . think it's called "solar welding". Seems to have come out ok. Will prob start out by temp mounting the Batts for the box up there . . . I'll find a real place for them after the trip.
Still need to do all the clean up and painting . . . just thought you might want to see.
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- rack looks very clean - great job on it. -
), LP tank is in and most of the plumbing is there for that, just missing the flex lines and to cut through the floor for my outside to inside passage. Two 15 gal tanks are mounted under the futon w/ a sureflo, that we picked up at the swapmeet, for water. Have a solid slab of pine, from up by Idylewild, 8' 1/2 x 20" it will be a kitchen counter already have it shaped and cut-out for the stove and sink install. Been sanding it down from rough cut. About to test fit it soon, will keep working on it outside after the test fitting till the dusty part is done. The toilet is on order
, I'll make a temp stall for it. Some storage for food and clothes and we're off.
