JaxDad
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Grit dog wrote:^Sounds quite optimistic on weight, but idk. I didn’t build it.
Is it fully finished inside or mostly a shell with minimal features/buildout?
I wondered about weight too, but then I looked up a local company that sells ‘Amish built’ sheds known to be sturdily built, they list an 8’ X 12’ (half the size) and with wood siding and shingles not steel as being 1,600 pounds, so that would be 3,200 pounds for 8’ X 24’ leaving about 1,800 pounds for insulation and interior finishing, etc, which seems reasonable.
I’ve not seen it in person, just in pictures, it’s an ‘open concept’ kinda thing, there is a pair of wing walls that divide the bathroom / bedroom from the kitchen / living area but not all the way up to the cathedral ceiling / roof level.
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Would be cool to see some pics/details. I’ll never build my own camper from scratch. No interest, but I build about everything else and this is interesting.
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Grit dog wrote:Would be cool to see some pics/details. I’ll never build my own camper from scratch. No interest, but I build about everything else and this is interesting.
I’ll ask for some pics, I just saw them on his phone.
I agree, I’m building a truck conversion (Super C) currently but what he built I would best describe as a homemade park model, not at all intended to be a ‘camper’ in the travelling sense of the term and of zero use or interest to me. Well, not other than what citiots pay for ‘glamping’ rentals that is. A neighbour is getting +$300 / night for a Yurt on his farm…..
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Grit dog
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Dang! I need to put up a yurt out in the woods behind the house and put it on Air BnB!
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Grit dog wrote:No offense meant, but what you’re considering is not a sound plan.
Well, maybe in Juno ! Large city, far south and near the coast.
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theoldwizard1 wrote:Grit dog wrote:No offense meant, but what you’re considering is not a sound plan.
Well, maybe in Juno ! Large city, far south and near the coast.
I think you’d be shocked at how many people in northern Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory live year-round in something like this. Smaller footprint, smaller heat requirements.
I know dozens who live in stuff like this in Nome.
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Grit dog
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Juno?
Spell much?
This is just getting dumb now. OP wants to use a travel trailer to winter over in Fairbanks.
Wasn’t a good idea when he first posted it and never will be. End of story.
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