calicamper
Expedition Leader
In a year or so If I hear about a Wrangler run over / crushed flat on a trail in Moab. My first thought will be this thing in RV mode. ? What a cool rig!
The wife and I are trying to come into agreement regarding the length of the container. I'd like to just use a standard 20-foot container, but she wants to use one that has been cut down and rewelded to a shorter length, around 14 feet (the bed is 14 feet long).
Have you checked into www.blissmobil.com ? If you have that kind of money, that may very well fit the bill for you as you already have the ISO loading points...
I think I found an appropriate water tank for you! See:I recently purchased a 2007 Oshkosh MTVR. We intend to convert it into an overland expedition type vehicle and do full-time RV living.
For those not familiar with the MTVR, it is an all-terrain military 6x6 truck built for the U.S. Marine Corps, and it is...big- nearly 12 feet tall. MTVR occupants look down into 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs on the highway. It's powered by an 11.9 liter (730 cubic inch) Caterpillar turbodiesel that puts out 425 horsepower and 1,550 pound-feet of torque. The tires are 53" tall, and weigh 500 pounds each. The truck weighs about 30,000 pounds empty, and with a GVWR of 62,200 pounds, has a rated payload capacity of 30,000 pounds. It can ford five feet of water.
It's also much more sophisticated than the older/smaller 2-1/2 ton and 5-ton trucks- the MTVR has a heavy-duty 7-speed Allison automatic transmission, a single-speed transfer case, full-time all-wheel-drive, coil-sprung fully independent suspension, central tire inflation, beadlocks, ABS, traction control, power steering, air-ride seats, can easily do 65mph, and the late-model ones like mine even have air conditioning.
The U.S. government originally paid about $250,000 for it. After they put about 3,000 miles on it, I was able to purchase it at auction for $15,500. The tubeless Michelin radial tires still look like new.View attachment 575282View attachment 575283
Your camper, 675 pounds of water-tank, about 10 tons of water, and still under payload!Lol, no need...
In a year or so If I hear about a Wrangler run over / crushed flat on a trail in Moab. My first thought will be this thing in RV mode. ? What a cool rig!
No problem, just use sandbags full of clay, pinned together with rebar, roofed with PSP and more sand bags, and sealed with perma-chink!We were considering building our box out of bricks, but I can't afford to hire a stone mason to do it for me, lol...