Happy Harvest Blog
Camper painted
The carving was long and hard and exhausting. It didn't look very good, and it was tough sawing away, really tough to work with arms overhead for so long. On the bright side, it improved greatly when it was painted.
Accessory shelves
Here are some little shelves we made for the kitchen. So simple.Curved piece of plywood with a little strip of Corex on the edge to hold stuff in, carved into the hard foam, and attached at one point to the window frame. That’s all.
Sigh, the wiring.
The solar panel is wired through its charge controller to the battery. The charge controller is awesome, because it reads out the panel output or the battery charge. The converter is suspect, so that is not wired to the batteries. It’s a glorified extension cord.
Buttoning up the cupboards
I was ecstatic about the coroplast. Instead of creating little caves when the sides go up, the insides of the cabinets are flooded with natural light still. You can see everywhere in it! This is not to be underestimated.
Moving right along to the inside- camper floor and framing
In keeping with a long tradition of living in a construction site the moment it could loosely be called shelter, we moved in and started sleeping in the camper.Every day we moved all the bedding out so that I could use the bedframe for a workbench, and then moved it back in at night.
Camper comes together- windows and welds
The foam is very dense and stiff. It resists being cut or chipped out, and it won’t tear at all. It has a great deal of shear strength. It will break the blade of a boxcutter. The real tool we found for it was a stiff putty knife. Then I can cut and chip out chunks.
Voila- the Little Green Bug, the Aphid, the Ameracauna Egg...
We spent the drive home thinking up names for it and also catching glimpses of it in the mirror and having a jolting moment of "What's behind us?!"
Up and off: chassis welding and powdercoating
The chassis looked awfully flimsy without the egg, and it sure bounced around on the highway, squeaking and crashing around behind us. It didn't help that we were presenting a rusty, flimsy little grey trailer that looked like a boat trailer past its usable life.
Camper gets cozy: spray foam insulation
I liked the colour a lot. Light peach, and the texture was nubbly in places and more rounded in others. Very much like a cave. I planned to leave the surface as is, cavelike and peaceful peach
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
