More from Luc Beauparlant (see post "Luc's Log Sauna Shipped from Quebec to Australia" below):
"I am attaching a photo of this great "hotel room " where i stayed for your collection. Home made hardwood camper."
Homemade Hardwood Housetruck in Australia
More from Luc Beauparlant (see post "Luc's Log Sauna Shipped from Quebec to Australia" below):
"I am attaching a photo of this great "hotel room " where i stayed for your collection. Home made hardwood camper."
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oh man! That reminds me of Rolling Homes! a book I borrowed so many times from the library. Can't find it cheaply anymore, but I'd love to thumb through it again.
Wow...I'd love to find a copy of that book! It's been out of print for many years.
I recall something similar from my youth in Southern Oregon. A couple of actors had taken a year off to convert a 1940 era flatbed truck into a traveling home and puppet theater. They toured the back-roads of America and lived on passing the hat after the show. I met them at the beginning of their tour, so I really don't know how it went. I would love to know...
hey lloyd,
i love this house-truck...especially the curved corrugated which is something i'm trying to figure out for a mini-house i'm building next month. since there's no way to contact this clever builder i thought i'd ask you, with all your experience...have you bent corrugated? do you think it's doable or is this some kind of pre-curved thing in the photo?
thanks!
:)colin
Sure, corrugated bends easily (with, not perpendicular to) corrugations. Picture quonset huts.
I wish he sold a book on HOW he built this, materials list and suggestions. Would appreciate!
To Paula and Catherine,
I have owned that book "rolling Homes" for 30 yrs..{it was published in 1979 by Jane Lidz}price was $7.95 and loaned it out to so many friends. I still have it... look at it .. and dream and recall having been in so many cool places like that in my life. Do you want a copy of a certain home from it? Pages60-92 shows mostly Large House Trucks So many beautiful buses converted to wooden homes.The one on pg.92 looks a lot like this one on this blog.Wonder what happened to these cool homes?
I still look at small vehicles and want to create a sweet 'rolling home'. Right now we have restored a 67 v.w. westfalia camper bus and four old trailers 1954 Aljoa, 1964 Fireball, 1963 Shasta, and a 1957 Cardinal. They are truely roling homes too, all with beautiful wood interiors.
Others books you may love too are:Woodstock Handmade Houses pub 1974 as well as Handmade Houses a Guide to the Woodbutchers Art 1973. These books all tell what creative people can do, and hopefully still are doing it. Let me know.. Thanks and keep creating Two Twiggs
You can find this book and several others on the subject on Amazon, but they are mostly used and it runs expensive since it's out of print. I found a site that not only has this book on CD, it also offers other books and manuals on truck/bus comversions, how to build, info on materials and such, not to mention lots of pics for ideas. You can find it here: www.rv-busconversions.com/
Happy Travels!
Tabatha
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