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04-22-2015, 06:14 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: southwest lowsyana
Posts: 542
Year: 1988
Coachwork: ward
Chassis: international
Engine: dt360a
Rated Cap: 65
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Originally Posted by The-Breeze
Bansil....I didn't even ask him to expand on his statement, simply because, he's the type that thinks "if it hasn't been done before, there's gotta be a good reason for it".
He's not one to try different things....which is kind of fun for me, cause I'm always coming up with strange ways of doing things and I constantly get the "eye rolling look", which makes me have to ask him to explain "why won't that work?"
I feel that I always win..but at times, I just nod and say "oh, I didn't think of that". But, of course, I still think that my idea should be doable.
Go ahead & laugh but we've survived being together for 15 years thinking like that. I think it has improved my cunning immensely.
I had him tear down an antique wardrobe to use as walls in the bus. He hesitated, until I walked by him one day with a big hammer...then he broke it down for me, we installed them and I painted them and he had to admit that they look great and were a perfect fit for where I wanted them..
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lol. the ol, threaten to beat hubby with a hammer trick!
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04-22-2015, 08:53 AM
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#722
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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BC you are correct cheers!
Tango going with expanded metal, the steps are 10.50 wide and then tapered down to 3.25
Nat, yup back to basic's plus it will look better
SDave shouldn't be an issue in the USA, most references I could find refer to 60% or 75% of wheelbase, my WB is longer than 10 feet, so the 70" should be GTG
I will measure total overhang soon and post it
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04-24-2015, 05:34 PM
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#723
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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SLOWLY the turtle goes long day outside
I got a little done today before rain sets in
framing in the top, 1.0 x 2.00 x 1/8 wall tubing and 1.0 x 2.00 x 1/8 C-channel
more framing
also started to "tie-in" the stairs and prep for finish work
and my first "selfie" I look real happy, actually was standing on the steps to weld around where ladder didn't fit, I need to get big ladder next
I so want to get this and bath room done in the next 6 weeks, fingers crossed
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04-24-2015, 05:42 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Bansil, I always knew you had at least a touch of hippie dna in you!
Well done good sir.
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05-03-2015, 04:19 PM
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#725
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
Bansil, I always knew you had at least a touch of hippie dna in you!
Well done good sir.
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CB,
you said it not me ;)
latest update...
at last a floor to step on(not attached yet) this was last photo a few minutes ago
started on "triangulation"/"art" etc...so handrail is in beginning stage
made some of these...need a shiat ton more ;)
a 3d journey
YES!!! that is a boat...WHY
you will have to stay tuned, to see why...why Bansil put a boat tangled into the vines..
and I have to make 100+ leaves and 30+ flowers...and....
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05-03-2015, 04:23 PM
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#726
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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hard to take pictures that shows whats going on, next weekend will try to take pictures...right before sundown
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05-03-2015, 04:39 PM
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#727
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Is this for your beanie?
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05-03-2015, 05:18 PM
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#728
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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"whirl sound" ....
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05-03-2015, 05:56 PM
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#729
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 352
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International
Engine: 466DT
Rated Cap: 65
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Very cool! When I saw the first pic I was hoping you had them mounted with some type of bearing, so they would spin as you are driving down the road.
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05-03-2015, 06:20 PM
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#730
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Adirondack Mountains NY
Posts: 1,101
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bansil
YES!!! that is a boat...WHY
you will have to stay tuned, to see why...why Bansil put a boat tangled into the vines.. ...
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I know. It is art therapy in an attempt to exorcise the demons from the memory of an awful childhood fishing trip that went terribly, terribly wrong . . . .
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Someone said "Making good decisions comes from experience, experience comes from bad decisions." I say there are three kinds of people: those who learn from their mistakes, those who learn from the mistakes of others, and those who never learn.
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05-03-2015, 06:40 PM
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#731
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Redbear
I know. It is art therapy in an attempt to exorcise the demons from the memory of an awful childhood fishing trip that went terribly, terribly wrong . . . .
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I grew up making boats from 1/2 gallon cardboard milk cartons, and then added a "crew" apparently dead mice according to mom
I floated my armada down storm drains and gutters...
Red bear, thanks for memory jog
Mom was always scared to check my pockets on laundry day ;)
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05-03-2015, 06:55 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bansil
I grew up making boats from 1/2 gallon cardboard milk cartons, and then added a "crew" apparently dead mice according to mom
I floated my armada down storm drains and gutters...
Red bear, thanks for memory jog
Mom was always scared to check my pockets on laundry day ;)
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LOL when I was young I would float model ships and bottles down our creek & shoot at them with my .22, then one day I realized you can't have war without fire so I dumped 10 gallons of gasoline into the water & lit it on fire, boy you should have seen all the fire trucks they had to build a damn about a mile away to keep it from spreading any farther, lit a couple of the neibors fields on fire
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05-03-2015, 07:19 PM
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#733
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allwthrrider
LOL when I was young I would float model ships and bottles down our creek & shoot at them with my .22, then one day I realized you can't have war without fire so I dumped 10 gallons of gasoline into the water & lit it on fire, boy you should have seen all the fire trucks they had to build a damn about a mile away to keep it from spreading any farther, lit a couple of the neibors fields on fire
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LOL. Nice. How many years did you get?
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05-03-2015, 10:25 PM
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#734
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycal
LOL. Nice. How many years did you get?
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LOL not years but a couple of broken boards
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05-03-2015, 10:31 PM
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#735
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allwthrrider
LOL not years but a couple of broken boards
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You got off cheap.
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05-03-2015, 10:34 PM
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#736
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycal
You got off cheap.
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I do recall my parents talking about some insurance payouts
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06-10-2015, 09:14 AM
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#737
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bakersfield, California
Posts: 1,013
Year: 1976
Coachwork: Crown
Chassis: Supercoach
Engine: Detroit 6-71 Mid-Ship Mounted
Rated Cap: 79 at Birth
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Where you been Bansil, and how is the back porch project coming along?
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06-10-2015, 11:10 AM
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#738
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MNT CITY TN
Posts: 5,158
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I have done a few things, bus has slowed down this summer we only have a couple late summer long weekends trips due to wifes new job
So more time at home means we need a place to chill out
Wifey wanted some yard work done so last couple weeks have been digging,scrapping burning etc...we hate our field grass (averages 36 inches tall) and mowing etc takes up too much time, we don't have...
...so we are going to redneck lay a bunch of concrete pavers, add a fire pit that is not just 1/2 of a 55 gallon drum I want Koi so I am doing a pond
I have always wanted one, so why not
As we have been demoing every evening she wanted a water feature to relax to until pond and stream are done so I put this together for her sunday
I will post some pictures when progress can be seen, we want low maintenance and a full concrete yard was too much $$$$$$$$$
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06-10-2015, 11:14 AM
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#739
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Stony Plain Alberta Canada
Posts: 2,937
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: TC2000 FE
Engine: 190hp 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 72
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I like it. So much character.
Nat
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Patently waiting for the apocalypses to level the playing field in this physiological game of life commonly known as Civilization
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06-10-2015, 12:04 PM
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#740
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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Get some Minnows going in that tub. That way, you'll have something to feed the Koi when the pod is ready.
I am fantasizing the sound it makes...nice!
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