Our Farold's Conversion

[travelinwithus]

About a month ago I picked up a 7000 watt Kohler generator from my brother-in-law. I scored it for $200 bucks . This past weekend I ran some new romex into the bus and hooked up the remote start switch. Works great. We had a nice cool weekend with the genny and A/C running

[travelinwithus]

About a month ago I picked up a 7000 watt Kohler generator from my brother-in-law. I scored it for $200 bucks . This past weekend I ran some new romex into the bus and hooked up the remote start switch. Works great. We had a nice cool weekend with the genny and A/C running

This pick is before I ran the new electrical. I still have to fabricate a cover for the genny. It ended up being too tall to mount under the bus without cutting out the floor. Something I didn't want to do so we just welded a platform to the back bumper of the bus. A quick job but it works. Once I get the cover and get it painted it will look much better.



I left the bus by my father-in-laws. He is a retired painter and he is going to take on the project of painting Farold. I was going to this weekend but the weather didn't cooperate and driving it through the woods would have scratched it cause the paint wouldn't have had time to harden.

[ol trunt]

WOW! Now thats a real campground clearer outter Just a suggestion but liability issues being what they are you might want to enclose that genny in a fine mesh metal cage of some kind to keep stupid people (and kids) from touching the exhaust or fingering the electrical contacts etc.

[travelinwithus]

Originally Posted by ol trunt

WOW! Now thats a real campground clearer outter Just a suggestion but liability issues being what they are you might want to enclose that genny in a fine mesh metal cage of some kind to keep stupid people (and kids) from touching the exhaust or fingering the electrical contacts etc.

Actually it runs pretty quiet. It has a pretty good sized muffler under it that you can't really see in the picture. When you are inside you can hardly hear it and when you are out side it is much quieter than some I have heard run while we were on our trip down to Florida. I do plan to put a metal cover over it to keep the kiddos and stupid people out. and I don't think I will be needing it in any campground as I would assume most that we stay in will have electric hookup.

[bansil]

Originally Posted by ol trunt

WOW! Now thats a real campground clearer outterthat putting youfr Just a suggestion but liability issues being what they are you might want to enclose that genny in a fine mesh metal cage of some kind to keep stupid people (and kids) from touching the exhaust or fingering the electrical contacts etc.

Trunt I think this is what this generation needs!!!
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I learned that putting your finger across the blades to line it up to the socket was a bad thing
I still raced my "speed racer" cars......and won

If the Tank book says "enter Tank....feet first....(WTF?)....it's 6 foot to the floor!!!

Lordy

Lordy you can't fix stupid.......

[travelinwithus]

Thanks to the father-in-law Farold got some new paint!

[bansil]

You just went up 4 steps on the "class ladder"

now to get lettering done....you are putting the travelinwithus back on right?

[wmkbailey]

Nice paint job, how much will he hire out for. There are several of us in the middle of painting our buses.

[browncrown]

Farold looks super nice

[Diesel Dan]

Oooooh! Nice! I REALLY like that color scheme. Dang, man, I'm considering copying it! Would that be bad form? I do want some dark green on my bus though, so I may just try to find a way to work some brown in there. It's the brown stripe that caught my eye.

[travelinwithus]

Thanks guys!

I am very happy with how it turned out. Here is a little better picture also (cleaned the lens on my phone's camera )



I would bet my father-in-law would be happy to paint everyone's buses. You just have to figure out how to get them here, lol.

[bansil]

Bus painting rally???

[travelinwithus]

Originally Posted by Diesel Dan

Oooooh! Nice! I REALLY like that color scheme. Dang, man, I'm considering copying it! Would that be bad form? I do want some dark green on my bus though, so I may just try to find a way to work some brown in there. It's the brown stripe that caught my eye.

Thanks Dan! Feel free to copy !

[travelinwithus]

Originally Posted by bansil

You just went up 4 steps on the "class ladder"

now to get lettering done....you are putting the travelinwithus back on right?

Yep, I will probably put travelinwithus.com back on as well as a couple other things. I just have to figure out what I want and where I want it!

[PDBreske]

Originally Posted by travelinwithus

I would bet my father-in-law would be happy to paint everyone's buses. You just have to figure out how to get them here, lol.

I know you typed other sentences here, but this is the only one I was able to see.

[inkblots84]

WOW! Looks beautiful!

[travelinwithus]

Here is a couple pics of the new genny cover I made out of an old washing machine housing





My father-in-law even painted up the generator

This weekend we are at my sister-in-law's place for a pool party with the kids

[bansil]

I love it...good show....remember the humming birds I talked of this morning? make sure front door is closed!!!!! before feeding..crap...crap...


poor little guy thought the bright red Keurig was a flower....I guess mamas cocao mocha didn't help

have fun

cooking mamas pizza now

[travelinwithus]

Originally Posted by bansil

I love it...good show....remember the humming birds I talked of this morning? make sure front door is closed!!!!! before feeding..crap...crap...


poor little guy thought the bright red Keurig was a flower....I guess mamas cocao mocha didn't help

have fun

cooking mamas pizza now

La Tortuga is "all" species friendly

[Shadoll]

Originally Posted by travelinwithus

La Tortuga is "all" species friendly

Does anyone know where Travelingwithus and their pictures went?