PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
You are willing to spend 3 to 5 years building this rig?
Perhaps I am an optimist but I have a friend with a fab shop on 5 acres in Montanna and between the two of us I think this project is doable in a whole lot less than two years.
You are willing to spend premium prices for all components, to end up paying extra?
I betcha I can get a better price buying 36 sheets of styrofoam than buying one or two at Home depot, If I buy 40 foot lengths of aluminum tubing to make the false floor I can get a better price also. I will not be buying roof top air conditioning units or a 3 way refrigerator. Check the price of a chest freezer or a microwave oven on Craigslist. While you are there perhaps look for a propane clothes dryer or a used front loading washing machine. keep your eyes open and you can probably find a propane tankless water heater and on e-bay you can probably find a water pump that just might do the trick.
You are willing to be locked out of many commercial RV parks, TT, NACO that your father loved? They won't allow homemade rigs in most of them.
I don't think he would have bought another membership that was worthless when he had enough of the road.
OK so if that is the way they want to set their rules then so be it. My rig will be about the same overall length as a big diesel pusher with a car on the dolly.
Many of the Escapees Co-ops have 40' rig limits, especially in the west.
The rig will be too long and heavy for real remote boondocking.
Hey if I have my Jeep in the back I can toss in some camping gear and go places your rig can't get to and run back and restock the ice box and take a shower and go back.
Building your own sounds like a lot of fun and a way to save money, but unless you can devote yourself full-time to the construction, it isn't.
That is kind of the plan. I sell my real estate, build the rig and go anywhere I am needed and live cheap and dollar cost average my way to retirement.
You can find used units for good prices you can convert - much easier, much faster and for a lot less money in the long run.
So true, but then that means that I would be getting towed somewhere to have a new torque converter installed, living with the compromises someone else chose to make and dealing with a temperamental RV.
Thanks for your comments.
