How is your truck set up for an expedition??

[sinuhexavier]

sorry that should have been asking sinuhexavier for pics.
been a long day

Here you go...

The bit about being in a forthcoming issue of OJ was purely wishful thinking at one point...

 

[R_Lefebvre]

I thought we were talking about expedition equipped vehicles?

We are. It diverged when some stated they felt a GPS was a luxury and not a necessity. I'm arguing it's a necessity in some places. The only other way around up here is by canoe, or using a map AND having somebody else who knows the way to show you. You don't just set off into the unknown with an expedition equiped vehicle with a map and no GPS. Well, maybe you could if you had a limitless supply of fuel and time.

 

[Navman]

I'm trying to figure out, if I'm in the UK, am I in the east or the west...? Hang on, where's my GPS?

Just head over the observatory in Greenwich and straddle the line, then you can be in both and not have to worry about it.

Or, you can be standing in the East and your brand new GPS can be off and telling you that you are indeed in the West. (ask me how I know)

 

[Navman]

A big pet peave of mine is when people ask me for the GPS coordinates to a meeting place.

It's a pet peave of mine too, because GPS is not a coordinate system. But most people don't get that.

 

[michaelgroves]

It's a pet peave of mine too, because GPS is not a coordinate system. But most people don't get that.

I think that might get a prize as the most obscure, while still technically correct, pet peeve...

 

[Navman]

I think that might get a prize as the most obscure, while still technically correct, pet peeve...

I know. What really gets me is when I catch myself saying it.

I saw a Geography professor make an example of a masters student once when he referred to GPS coordinates and that 'lesson' has stuck with me since.

 

[Geo14cux]

What is time & distance for 50$ Alex

 

[muskyman]

What is time & distance for 50$ Alex

whats your vector victor:ylsmoke:

 

[TeriAnn]

So I take it that no one else has any constructional comments to make about setting up Land Rovers for expedition type travel?

Either that or no one has the GPS info to find the subject topic?

 

[nwoods]

Have any of you read Buffalo Bill's (William Cody) autobiography? He used to do 75-100 mile treks in the great plains, at night, and never had a GPS. Cool stuff. Extremely enjoyable read (or audiobook)

Does anyone else just sorta always know where they are and where the compass points are? With rare exception, I pretty much always have an innate sense of where i am. I often don't know how to get where I'm going, but I always seem to know where I am and how to go back to where I was.

 

[R_Lefebvre]

Does anyone else just sorta always know where they are and where the compass points are?

Yes. If I'm moving slowly enough; hiking, canoe, truck, etc then I can. If I'm going fast, rally or enduro, then no, I lose it.

So I take it that no one else has any constructional comments to make about setting up Land Rovers for expedition type travel?

I haven't done much out of the box, worth sharing here, yet. I want to eventually build a cargo cage behind the rear bench. I'm surprised more people don't do something like that. I see way too many overloaded rigs with lots of heavy stuff just ready to crush the occupants in a collision.

Other than that, I've been spending my time building my trailer:

Since I have a family of 3, soon to be 4, I wanted more room. I could pack light using backpacking equipment, and load stuff on the roof, which I have done, but this trailer will give me more storage space yet, fast setup, and probably the same MPG as a huge roof rack. A large Magiollina Safari is going on top of the trailer. The trailer will be painted to match the truck.

 

[Connie]

I like drawer systems. I love the nice commercially built ones, but since that wasn't in the budget, I cut apart a full suspension filing cabinet to use in ours. I cut down two of the drawers to about half their original height for tools and spares, and above that we have a drawer for the kitchen stuff and one for the food. (They guy I stole the idea from had a plasma cutter, I only had an air nibbler, so I was picking crescent moons out of the bottom of my shoes for weeks) Then on the side we have hinged boxes for clothes, chairs, med. kit etc.

This is maybe not the ideal set up, as everything is permanent and although it is a daily driver right now, is not the most efficient in that capacity.

anyway you can see some of the pics here

 

[proper4wd]

In a funny twist of sarcastic irony, I'm about to make an expedition to pick up a u-haul trailer! I wish I had my own, though, like Rob's

 

[Colorado David]

. . . jumping pits filled with poison snakes?

That would be venomous snakes. There are lots of venomous snakes, but I can't think of a poisonous one.:sombrero: Still, I'm with you on this one.:smiley_drive:

 

[Nonimouse]

I put a pertinant post in sometime during the great GPS hi-jack.

Like Connie I like drawer systems - like them a lot but they don't work for what I need anymore. The days of dedicated for a job vehicles have gone for me - two kids, dog, small holding etc mean I need a vehicle I can use to haul stuff around during the week, then take off with the family at the weekend. So I am going back to modular. I've repaired my Zarges boxes, cleaned out the Coleman, raided the car boot sales for tough plastic boxes etc. Packed it all in, marked the tie down points, then taken it all out again and fitted the tie downs; mades some removeable shelving, fitted a dog guard. That's about it.

Spent far more time making the vehicle reliable (even a Land Rover can be reliable!), sorting led lighting, comms, aux electrics and decent wiring, re-built the winch; fitted the underbody protection...

This guy has it about right http://www.btinternet.com/~andrew_marshallsay/marshallsay/My_cars/isuzu.htm
Low budget, make it yourself or buy it cheap on the 'bay, think everything through.