Pop-up goes the camper!
All around the mulberry bush...
We now have slightly upgraded on-site accommodations! Thanks go out to Margo and Walt (friends of my parents), who gave us their pop-up camper for practically nothing. It takes me back to my childhood, when we spent some part of every summer vacation camping in my parents' Coleman Brandywine pop-up. The one we received is a 1986 Coleman Laramie, which hadn't been used for a few years.
Pop and Walt drove it up to the site for us, along with a bunch of equipment Pop has been accumulating for us for this project, including a table saw, a radial arm saw and a chop saw. They also brought the water cooler from Pop's office, which he just moved out of. We'll need to level that somewhere and maybe secure it so it won't tip before we can use it, but the 5 gallon jug should keep us from having to haul quite as much water up once we get it set up.
Once it arrived, we opened up the pop-up and set it up to survey the condition. Except for a minute when the cranking mechanism froze and we couldn't get it to rise further (fixed by application of brute force), the raising of the trailer was pretty smooth. Aside from the smell of mothballs (which has been accumulating for a number of years) and some nut shells stashed inside the locking door by a crazy chipmunk, the trailer is in pretty good shape. We removed the mothballs, but it'll need to air over the next week before trying to camp in it.
This weekend we started setting down the sill plates. This involved a little bit of cutting of wood and lot of playing the measure, remeasure, lather, rinse, repeat game. Over and over and over and.... By the end of Sunday, we had all the sills laid out they were not square yet. I need to call FD and get some advice on how to do that, and we'll finish up next time.
We now have slightly upgraded on-site accommodations! Thanks go out to Margo and Walt (friends of my parents), who gave us their pop-up camper for practically nothing. It takes me back to my childhood, when we spent some part of every summer vacation camping in my parents' Coleman Brandywine pop-up. The one we received is a 1986 Coleman Laramie, which hadn't been used for a few years.
Pop and Walt drove it up to the site for us, along with a bunch of equipment Pop has been accumulating for us for this project, including a table saw, a radial arm saw and a chop saw. They also brought the water cooler from Pop's office, which he just moved out of. We'll need to level that somewhere and maybe secure it so it won't tip before we can use it, but the 5 gallon jug should keep us from having to haul quite as much water up once we get it set up.
Once it arrived, we opened up the pop-up and set it up to survey the condition. Except for a minute when the cranking mechanism froze and we couldn't get it to rise further (fixed by application of brute force), the raising of the trailer was pretty smooth. Aside from the smell of mothballs (which has been accumulating for a number of years) and some nut shells stashed inside the locking door by a crazy chipmunk, the trailer is in pretty good shape. We removed the mothballs, but it'll need to air over the next week before trying to camp in it.
This weekend we started setting down the sill plates. This involved a little bit of cutting of wood and lot of playing the measure, remeasure, lather, rinse, repeat game. Over and over and over and.... By the end of Sunday, we had all the sills laid out they were not square yet. I need to call FD and get some advice on how to do that, and we'll finish up next time.
posted by SKelly | 9:28 PM
1 Comments:
I have enjoyed following your blog. My family is planning to build a First Day Cottage in Ky. I was wondering how you have progressed since June?
I also have a FDC blog.
http://buildingtheartbarn.blogspot.com/
Blessings,
Robin
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