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Here is where the Farmtek flooring comes from in China. Check out the Alibaba wabsite. http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/499701466/PP_slat_hollow_floor_for_poultry.html They also state on the Alibaba website that it is good for roof rack flooring.

Land cruising and ocean cruising have a similar feeling once you get outback and beyond. They both require a can do and self-reliant attitude. They both impart a sense of adventure and freedom to those who take the road less traveled.

That is a real advantage of the Farmtek flooring. You can customize it to your particular purpose without engaging in a major modification of the roof rack. Most of the time people carry the same stuff in the same locations for proper weight distribution, so once you figure out where you want...

Wow. That is a professional looking job. I am impressed with the workmanship. Your photos are very helpful. Making a mock up using carboard is a great idea. Congratulations on a beautiful result. Your perch on the roof rack is one of my favorite places on a Land Rover. It's a great place...

You got lucky! Maybe the green will be good for green laning, and you will have a green vehicle.

Sad news. Here is a link to pictures of their trip. An awesome adventure that established the creditibility of the Series Land Rover. http://www.teeafit.co.uk/firstoverlandpress/pics.htm

I checked out the waffle board/fiberglass grating for the floor of my roof rack. I drove to Henderson, Nevada (Las Vegas) to the American Grating warehouse. I found some good grating/waffle board that was 1/2 inch deep and 1 1/2 inch square mesh and light grey/charcoal color. The grating was...

Just keep working on those dreams and you will be surprised where they take you. Here is a little more fuel for your dream machine. http://PositiveThinkingSailor.com

I rivet metal to metal. The way I achieve it is using a 5 mm flat washer on a 5 mm rivet. I drill the hole in the aluminum angle and wood, insert the rivet, put the flat washer on the far end of the rivet, and then activate the riveting tool. The aluminum rivet pulls up firmly against the...

I am always looking for off the shelf solutions that can be adapted to an expeditionary vehicle. I did not want a bunch of wood drawers that are hard for me to build and that would be heavy. I also didn't want to fiddle around with installing eight different sliders. I took the easy way out...

I tried to look up the weight on the internet, and I could not find a weight on the 69 inch long slats. We cut them to 58 inches for a perfect fit on our Brownchurch rack. They don't weigh that much because they are only .4375 inches thick and 4.75 inches wide. It only required 24 slats to...

Thanks. Trying to figure out what to put on the rack was harder than doing the job. I have been thinking about the flooring for months, and it was hard to decide. If money and weight were no object, I would have gone with teak. I hope this works out long term, because the price was right.

We used sheepskins in our Defender in New Zealand, but they were not cheap. When we camped in the winter in Arabia, we put 2 sheepskins on our cots to keep our backsides warm. It worked wonders.

I used the thinnest plywood that I felt would stand up to the abuse. I didn't have to put the vertical plywood section in the middle of the box. I could have simply put the two slider/basket sections side by side and bolted them together. That would have made the installation narrower if I...

They are a kitchen thing. They are called Double Tier Wire Baskets, Rev-a-Shelf 5 WB Series. Here is the link where you can see some pictures of the mechanism. http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=21827&utm_source=Nextag&utm_medium=CSE&utm_campaign=V9124&utm_term=Rev-a-Shelf Click on the...

Interesting. From our time running in Arabia, we never ran with everything locked up on hard surfaces. People used lockers in sand, but that was the only place. In ten years of running in Arabia with other Land Rovers, I have seen one stripped wheel hub, one broken front half shaft, and a...

Basic box construction with birch plywood, aluminum angle, and rivets. Nothing complicated using only basic tools. Sliders from Lowes consisted of one double deck narrow slider and one double deck slightly wider slider. I could have used two narrow sliders if I wanted a narrower box...

Preparing a vechicle for an expedition around the world is like solving a puzzle. The pieces of the puzzle are well-known to all expeditionary travelers, but the size and placement of each piece in the puzzle varies with the experience and priorities of those making the trip. Most adventurers...

The more the merrier! Expeditionary travel is a group activity.

Basic box construction with birch plywood, aluminum angle, and rivets. Nothing complicated using only basic tools. Sliders from Lowes consisted of one double deck narrow slider and one double deck slightly wider slider. I could have used two narrow sliders if I wanted a narrower box...