We’ve had another steady week chipping away at various jobs. On Tuesday we travelled down to Brisbane to pick up our shower. What a day for it, it poured rain most of the day and Brisbane had record rainfall. We weren’t to be deterred though and were lucky enough Continue Reading
Blog 10 – Behind the Scenes
I was hoping to share pictures of our first floor down but unfortunately that didn’t come to fruition. This was disappointing, particularly to me, but Fred, being Fred just took it in his stride. It didn’t mean tools down though, instead we worked away on bits of this and Continue Reading
Blog 9 – The Tanks Arrived!
The panels had arrived early so we were at the stage where we were waiting on the water tanks. We wanted to install the grey and black tanks in the under body to allow us to put the first floor on. There was just one problem, the tanks were still Continue Reading
Blog 8 – Big News; we are now homeless
What a huge week! Last week when I left off, we were dropping the truck in for the roadworthy. Indeed we did and we are happy to report that there was nothing we didn’t anticipate. We didn’t envisage, or hoped with our fingers crossed, that there wouldn’t be much wrong Continue Reading
Blog 7 – Looking Forward, Looking Back
With the end of 2023 upon us and the beginning of the new year tomorrow, I thought I would reflect on where we are up to right now and what is needed for us to hit the road in our new rig next year. We started the year in Victoria Continue Reading
Blog 6 – Picking up the Panels
So great news our panels are ready much earlier than advised. Well great yes and no! Because we didn’t think we were getting them until February at the earliest, we had re-arranged our original building and ordering plans. This meant that we didn’t order our water and waste water tanks Continue Reading
BUILDING THE STEPS AND ADDING STORAGE BOXES TO THE UNDERBODY
While I was flitting off to Melbourne for 10 days to catch up with the kid’s and attend the work party (very important stuff and a good time had), Fred soldiered on with the build. What a trooper! While the subframe and chassis are still open and easily accessible, we Continue Reading
Blog 4 – Let’s Go Shopping!
Well a girl loves a good shop! Actually I don’t, in fact it’s one of my least favourite things but I gotta say shopping for your new home is very satisfying. Expensive, but at least you feel like you are ticking things off the list and you know me and Continue Reading
De Fabrication – Constructing the Subframe
Well we’ve made it to blog number 3 – manufacturing and fitting the subframe to De Trucksta. This is Fred’s forte so he got to planning the construction. Steel sizes, amounts to order, measurements not to mention accounting for the bend in the chassis. Yep there is a bend in Continue Reading
Building an Expedition Vehicle – Where do we Start?
Now we are back in Rockhampton with De Trucksta, it’s time to get this show on the road. Our hope is to have him complete and ready to roll by June 2024 as we have signed up to volunteer at the Big Red Bash again. There is so much Continue Reading