So my neighbour has decided to raise the roof a foot on his camo bus.
Big job and not sure how its gonna work out. Could be a chit show, or be great But opportunity to learn/practice and he is just crazy enough to pull it off so I'm in. lol
We removed all the windows yesterday and did the cutting today. We had previously cut/welded up all the steel to add and managed to get them all tacked in.
You may remember a thread a while ago about him disassembling a 28ft trailer in front of my house and he grabbed a lot of windows ect from it so any windows going back in will be from that.
Here are a few pics if anyone's into it. most times were choppin/channeling and its rare were raising something so its a whole different kinda crazy
Of course, he wants the whole thing painted the same again when its done Damn! thats gonna suck! lol
Last pic is of my neighbour Tom aka neighb to me.... but most call him Phil as in duck dynasty. lol
-- Edited by janies dirty 37 on Saturday 19th of July 2014 10:55:49 PM
Ok, what for? It seems like most folks would be able to stand straight up in that beast as is. Transporting 7 foot tall basketball players? Raising the floor for storage compartment under? - like a Greyhound?
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Ok, what for? It seems like most folks would be able to stand straight up in that beast as is. Transporting 7 foot tall basketball players? Raising the floor for storage compartment under? - like a Greyhound?
Ceiling was too low to meet fire code for the woodstove .
You guessed it on the tall thing. He is tall and 2 of his boys are just under 7ft tall.
He gets tired of ducking if he's not walking right down the center of it I guess.
An awful lot of work but he wants it done so what the hell.......... Nothin to lose at my end. Just learn and add it to the list of crazy things we've done.
Oh, that splains it! I agree, what the hell - I get the feeling there is a party at each days end too!
I once cut a Grand Marquis into a "Grand Marchero"....just for the hell of it. Do you think I can find the pictures? I know they're somewhere!
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No pic,s of the front? Did you give it the bowl trim around the door and windshield or chainsaw it straight across behind the door. You could make one of them fancy airfoils with some birch bark , tie it on with a bit of spruce root and slap a little pine gum to seal it up and make it legal. Gazoo has a set of louvers that would look badass on that thing.
Hard to poke the barrel of your rifle out a port hole without being noticed, beside you would have to be a really sad pirate to live in the river. Dam beavers would chew your leg off.
Holy ****! Why did y'all cut through the widows to raise it? Seems like a ton of extra work.
A cut over the top of the window openings and a straight section of steel welded in would've saved you a ton of work.
But hey! If you're all having a good time, and that's what he wants.
Not sure about that Ed, but I would imagine once all those boyz go "hunting" and have enough "holiday away from wife beverages" it will be a multitude of color.
I'm worried they wont be able to find it if they wonder away from camp
I kept telling him if he wanted it to blend in and not be seen we should have painted it white to blend with the snow we get for 8 months of the year up here.
There are some very subtle shades of red and orange foliage throughout the back of the bus....... but if I have to paint that thing a 3rd time I'll be seeing red
And instead of using my recently acquired hand grenade for a shifter knob in my car........ I'll pull the pin and throw it in the bus...... problem solved. I'm over it. lol
Glad its done. Learned a lot raising it but trying to forget about having to paint it....... again.
But opportunity to learn/practice and he is just crazy enough to pull it off so I'm in. lol
Damn! thats gonna suck! lol
