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Technical => Campers => Topic started by: eddy on August 17, 2008, 05:56:40 PM
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geez just had a look at stevos and snows gallerys and got the enviys of the pic beside the lake, that sums up beddie campers/motohomes just spot on for me, the nicest place I've set up is Wilsons Prom in Oz and Kaikoura in NZ, great days ;D ;D ;D ;D
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actually stevos pic is in hunterbynature gallery, had to have a second look cause I am so impressed with the pic, only thing missing is the catamaran on a trailer, now that would be great ;D ;D encourages me to get my camper on the road for this summer .... oh and fix the hole in the catamaran, a case of overloading with passengers last summer at Lilydale lake :(
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yea its a good rig guys, have a 110L fridge in there aswell and go hunting and fishin for 3 weeks just me and the dog its great, just gotta ring the missus evey now and then to let her no im alive wot more can a man ask for cheers stevo 8)
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(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/hunterbynature/stevospics101.jpg)
tows the boat aswell 8)
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I love this pic... It just belittles the Nissan Patrol and the fold up caravan that it is towing : )
What make is the unit behind the Beddy? IS it a dodge?
All that is missing is the dirt bikes...
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its a 52 chevy his son is running a 55 check it out 8)
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orh now your teasing me, is that Queenstown?
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That is a beast! I have never seen anything like it and I love it!
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hey stevo just checked out your pics in hunterby nature gallery, I like ;D ;D ;D
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cheers eddy the white bedy was my old camper, done heaps of holiday trips in her, sold her on tradme for near on 10k and purchased the latest one wich runs small block chevy, not as good nick as my old one but am doing a ground up rebuild and has heaps of room inside, have done a shower and toilet and 110L 3 way fridge, can get heaps of venison in there aswell and not to bad on the old petrol , similar to running the 2.3L bedford motor, the v8 tows my boat quite comfortably were as the 2.3 was ok but had to get rite up it, taking heeps of pics as i progress so will be posting them at some stage cheers stevo 8) 8)
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onya stevo, we were in Dunedin last year in a Britz camper, went for a trip on the railway up through the gorge, been in OZ 26 years now (from Kawerau) and mate I am impressed with what you are doing and all the power to you, my misuss is screaming about doing the camper trip around OZ but I want to take a beddie she wants a 4x4 and a caravan >:( mate miss the fishing and hunting in ENZED and your pics for me are real drool worthy, keep doing it bro cause life is short ;D
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cheers eddie check www.myspace.com/hunterbynature i have a few hunting pics on there that mite interest you cheers stevo 8)
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Excellent pics stevo, luv travelling in convoy with mates, never been to NZ but yea lovely spots alright from the pics, do you freshwater fishing over there? Iam a saltwater water person myself, at the moment we are doing our 2nd beddie motorhome up and finishing up on the toilet and shower now, what sorta toilet do you use,
I'am pretty fortunate with my misses as she more i think addicted to beddies than I am, works pretty hard so we can get back out camping again
cheers snow
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hi ya snow yea plenty of fresh water fishin over here, i normally fish lake ohau wich is tekapo country, close to the ski feilds and snow, the fishin is awsome as is with any high mountain lake but only the diehards catch the fish, these lakes are very exposed to the elements { wind} wich puts a lot of people off, the fish are big and real good fighters, but you mite only get a hours fishin out of two weeks cose of the weather, so if you percivere it can be bloody great
I remember sleeping in the camper one nite with the missus and the wind was getting up quite fierce, it was like a horror story, the noise of the wind was like a freight train comin down on us , i remember waking thinking we were about to be tipped over and all i seen wase two big white eyes looking back at me and a little voice said do you think we should park somewere else?
nah i said it will be fine, i great faith in the bedford gods we'll be rite, next mornin there were trees down every were, wot a mess but the old bedy done us proud and the fishin was awsome that day, court 14 in a row, kept two for tea, man wot a holiday!!!!!!! any way the toilet is a theatfort electric flush with 20L cassette, side mount external door very comfortable, the pic is of the shower and toilet i have built also entry into the drivers compartment, have fridge beside toilet and will be venting heat of fridge into shower erea so i can use as a drying room aswell on my hunting trips, have some more pics on rebuild will post a series later on cheers stevo
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geez bro you got me droolen all over my keyboard again, I can so much relate to your fishen and hunten stories, I have a great photo of one of my nephews with a wild boar drooped over his shoulders, they live on a farm on the east coast of the north island and he took the dogs out for a run and came home with a huge pig as a bonus, didn't have a gun with him and had to stick it, hes is one proud 19 year old, I'll post it up when I can, great photo for the outdoor types, myself I have mellowed over the years and that razorback drama is by choice behind me now, I remember going deer shooting in the Rotomas and we got lost for a couple of nights in the bush, I also remember fishing the lakes as a die hard but tents and wet and cold doesn't do it for me any more, I much rather prefer the cosiness of the beddie camper and doing sailing, canoeing, mountain bike riding and running in the wilderness ....... ahhhh the joys of reaching 50, I even leave the dirt bikes to the sons now, used to get into it but those broken bones take a lot longer to heal now :P how does it go? oh yeah ... been there, done that, not doing it again tommorrow cause too much pain, give me the good life. ;D ;D ;D ;D
kia kaha Eddy
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i here ya brother not ready for old age yet, 50 next year, looking forward to the challenge, this pic was one of last years hunt, 3 of us in the tent for 3 days of snow and loved every minute of it, and the hunting was great,,,,,,,, old age? bring it on!!!! cheers stevo
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That's what I call LIVING! I bet you felt alive when you woke up with ice boogers... hahaha Jd
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Hey stevo gota get personal with ya, your dunny lol ,once the misses saw it, thats what I want, would you be able to tell us the width of it, you have a very simular setup as we are doing just in that same area with the fridge and stove beside the shower looks good, I have a few pics of our as well that i will put up in the gallery
cheers snow
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hi snow you can google lewis gray, the are agents for thetford toilets or just google thetford toilets , they have all dimensions and sizes, i bought the shower tray that goes with the toilet aswell, keeps everthing water proof hope this helps cheers stevo 8)
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big help stevo thanks, you got a few pics going in ya gallery now lucky i pickup pages 2 and 3, I see you use the por15 as well thats the best stuff that i ever use for rust, that company that makes or sell it as a heap of other stuff for cars as well
cheers snow
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yea its good stuff snow im on my third tin at the moment, even done the front suspension after it was sandblasted and then painted over it with hammerite, it just loves etching on to a porous service and just keeps getting harder and harder, every bedford should have a tin in the glove box gonna eventually do the hole under side in it then underseal over top, should never have to be looked at again, not in my time anyways cheers stevo 8)