The Four Season Prime

[nat_ster]

Originally Posted by SassyLass

Have you shared your potential floor plan, or have I missed it elsewhere? I've seen you mentioned things like "over the kitchen counter" so I imagine you have at least a general idea at least. You address so many details, I can't wait to see how you design the floor space and your logic behind it.

Looking forward to following the rest of the build!

Thx

I did share a floor plan back in the fist few pages. However it has changed a fair bit, and I now need to make a new floor plan.

Nat

[nat_ster]

A few weeks ago most of the snow was melted, then I woke up to this.
This is a pic of the outside of my shed and bus.





Walking out my front door to my car.


My 8D battery I use for boosting and running lights.




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[nat_ster]

This is what it looks like under the 30' x 60' tarp.







Standing in the rear of the bus looking back at the front door of my shed I live in.









The snow helps hold the tarp down.





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[nat_ster]

Last fall when I set up camp I used what I had. 1 Inch ratchet straps and small 1/4 inch cables hold the tarp up between the bus and shed.



























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[nat_ster]

My 87 Honda CRX has 543,000 km on it and finally broke a axle shaft. So it was time to rebuild the front end. Shocks, axles, bearings, ect.

Only place I have to work out of the weather is under my tarp. ou can see the snow hanging over the car in the creases of the tarp.









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[nat_ster]

All done the front end work. After the snow melts, I will rebuild the rear suspension.







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[gbstewart]

I feel your pain, same thing here to, and cold too -21 with out the wind yesterday.
gbstewart

[nat_ster]

Time to drop the rear fuel tank.

Rear bumper first.



I love this light weight, really strong aluminum work bench.



3/4 inch drive, Milwaukee M18 impact gun with over 500 ft pound of bolt snapping torque. Not a single bolt would come loose in reverse, so I went forward and twisted them all off.



I hate rust.







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[nat_ster]

You can see the unreal amount of dirt still packed up inside everything.

















BlueBird welded the tow hooks to the frame. You can see the heat signature on the opposite side of the frame rail.







More twisted off bolts.





Fuel tank just about ready to drop. I have removed 46 bolts so far.



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[nat_ster]

This piece was one of two. They were in front and to the rear of the fuel tank, bolted to the frame cross members. More dirt and rust.













Dirt and rust knocked off the back of the tank.



First glance of the leak.



The dirt held moisture and caused the tank to rust though.







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[nat_ster]

Tank on the ground.



More dirt.









The fuel tank is full. 2 inch ratchet strap was used to slide it out from under the bus.







Other end is attached to the skid under my shed.





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[nat_ster]

Originally Posted by gbstewart

I feel your pain, same thing here to, and cold too -21 with out the wind yesterday.
gbstewart

Owch.

It's now raining here. Good weather is just around the corner.

Hang in there my fellow Canadian. We made it through another winter.

Now it's busy season. Time to make money, work on our buses, go camping, ect.

Thx for watching.

Nat

[nat_ster]

Fuel tank slid most the way out from under the bus.



A side pic showing the pile of dirt still on top of the tank.





Two more big chunks of steel to remove from under the bus. That means cutting the heads off 40 more 5/8th bolts. These bolts are so rusty, the head just spins and will not tighten, or loosen.



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[nat_ster]

More on the fuel tank later.

Now there was some misunderstanding on the incineration of human waste inside my stove. The pics that follow are of a small fire. Larger fires generate much much more heat. These pics will show the unreal heat of a small Coal fire, this is not wood.

I eat a ton of canned fish. It's the best form of easy to digest protean. To avoid the smell of the cans in the garbage, I burn them out.

This is what the can looks like new.





In a small two fist size fire with the flash off.



Pile of cans laying on the floor cooling waiting to be put in a bag.



Longer than 10 min in the fire and this happens. It did not melt, it vaporized the metal.







If a coal fire can vaporize a steel can in 10 min, incinerating human waste can be done with no smell. Most times the bag of human waste is gone in less than 5 min.

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[nat_ster]

I use a solar walkway light as a night light in my shed. I hang the light outside when I go to work, and take it in every night. It makes enough light to navigate the shed at night without blinding me with a bright light.



I hang everything. Things like clothes and boots get hung near the stove to dry. This is a big part of staying healthy living under these conditions.



My wife's winter boots hanging to dry.



My cast iron pans. Even the red ones are cast iron. Only the two rear pans on the right are stainless steel.



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[nat_ster]

A few pics of a nice moon.




Stay tuned folks, pics and details about what I do for off grid light in my shed coming soon.

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[nat_ster]

The second pic I tried to post with the first one.



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[claydbal]

damn yankee. dont ya know it is summertime?

[jazty]

Originally Posted by claydbal

damn yankee. dont ya know it is summertime?

Yankee? Those folk don't exist this far north.. Sasquatchs perhaps, but you won't see many yankees..

[claydbal]

hey, i forgot about sasquatch! nat, maybe you can get him to give ya a hand puttung that heavy fuel tank back in place?

as always, great pics!