Who else has a
home made work of art/genius?
Last October our tent was trashed in a storm in
Innamincka and we continued with the aid of a tarp and lots of rope (and our sense of humour!)
What to replace it with?
We currently live in a very rust-prone area and decided not to buy a van.
Hubby had built a white narrow-guage galvanised "canopy" to go on his
grey home made box trailer, with the view of fishing up at the Gulf (didn't want to be croc tucker by sleeping in a tent!).
5 years later, thanks to work, he still hasn't made it to the Gulf. It's currently in the process of being fitted out as our temporary van and is about to hit western Qld in a few weeks...
It's an unusual looking canopy because it has an overhang, over the longer-than-usual drawbar, using what would have been unused space. It has windows on 3 sides and a door, all with flyscreens (thanks to a caravan wrecker). Inside it's not much bigger than a bed.
But the bed hinges and lifts for storage space and the bed can also fold from double to single to give us half our floor space back. We have a shelf above the bed. There's power and a shelf for the toaster and electric jug. There's a solar light and the tv from the bedroom is about to be given a shelf...
No fancy kitchen, but we either
cook on a campfire if in the bush or on a caravan park's bbq, or we hit the local pub and support the local communities that we pass through.
There's a space in the corner at the foot of the bed for the bar fridge to fit when we have power, and we also have a car fridge. Our solar panels will be added to the roof by our next trip, in the space between the boat's "roof racks".
It's only the height of the car for wind resistance but as high as possible so we can almost stand. I'm pushing for one of those awnings you can attach to your 4WD to cover the door and give instant shade.
And it has the very distinctive painting of a fish skeleton on each side-a fisherman's sense of humour.
He loves the fact that the canopy slides off and he has a normal box trailer again...and he only pays $60 a year for the rego (it's a "camper", a box trailer and also a boat trailer, all for the one rego price!!) If it rusts, just grind it back and re-paint. Insurance? It's only a modified box trailer!
Hubby reckons that we'll certainly meet the neighbours each place we stop when they come over to see "what the heck is that?!"
I told him that we'll certainly be in the middle of everything from $5000 camper trailers to $200,000 motorhomes...but I was wondering what other wierd and wonderful unconventional
home made works of genius are out there...
Robyn :)