PCFree Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 It would be nice to take another virtual tour of your house truck to see how you have settled into it and made it a home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 I have some video that I need to edit and make a short you tube clip- its hard to show in photos. But rest assured its very settled in now. And complete with cat! Cat makes house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriek Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Hey Alex. i second the video idea! I bought myself a truck a couple of weeks ago. Figure I'll build over the next couple of years. $8500 5.1 wheel base, 7m deck. At the mo it's got gullwing sides which would be perfect for my band, but can't keep buying trucks willy nilly aye, so I'll be stripping that off to the deck. Has checkerplate deck which I'm thinking I'll replace with wood, for weight. That's my biggest concern. The Tare is nearly 6 ton, The GVM is 9.1. Although there is quite a lot of heavy in the rear doors and heavy steel in the top for those wings. The front axel rating is 3.6 and rear is 7.7 so I'm not sure how they get 9.1. Anyway, let the building begin. (should be able to click for more pics) Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Cool. Start a thread on here! I'm sure the others will love to see it. Plenty of love here for creations of any kind. You must be able to lose plenty of weight to bring it back down. Another plus is it looks like you have smaller 16" wheels like ours? Less weight and lower deck height means taller ceilings or multi level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriek Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I will do. yours has been a big as help and inspiration. Mine is probably going to be an embarrassing long build, but hey, no rush aye. I'll try and be as detailed as poss. Nearly finished the plan. Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriek Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 OK, I have started a blog on my housetruck build at http://housetruck.wordpress.com if anyones interested. cher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My name is Russell Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Long time no update. hows the truck been one year on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EURON8 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 It featured on the build-threads website last week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My name is Russell Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 got link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanebrain Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 http://www.build-threads.com/build-threads/1985-hino-housetruck/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 still mega jelly of this thing! update pics plz. anything you'd change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 also, good work getting on build threads alex! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted December 27, 2013 Author Share Posted December 27, 2013 Oooh- missed these posts. Yeah truck (well...house) has been fine. not a lot to report. is quite funny tha at the campsite we get so many tourists coming down to take photos. They are mega lucky because they get truck and Viva in the photo. There is a dead end track going past the truck down to another house bus and they all head down there in cars and motorhomes trying to do a sneaky driveby photo shoot. then they get stuck at end and have to do 15 point turn to get out.  we will redesign the pop out roofs and change the guttering on them. the ally pipes in the corners work well to drain until they get blocked and with several springy oaks, possums and other trees about its all too often we have to clear them. One skylight has a tiny drip if it rains really hard but dries out straight away so job for future. In fact so many little jobs to do- things that have never been finished since moving in. But these jobs will wait for ages as we are in the middle of trying to buy a block of land right now.  Truck will get moved onto said land maybe next summer if all goes well. Later on we will build a cabin on ridge and hopefully can rent truck out to backpackers etc as something funky to stay in.  Hino always starts without fail. so easy. I must change the oil as not liking the idea of old oil sitting there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 man, so pining this thing as much as ever. so awesome! glad she got to the block all good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Neat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thousand Dollar Supercar Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Hearing about this thing moving always reminds me of Krang and the Technodrome: Â Â He was always stuck down there in the centre of the earth for want of enough fuel to mobilise his bigass fortress and take over the world, poor bastard. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 ^ Yeah I can't remember that but do remember some old sci-fi series about a family travelling about some distant world in a 6 wheeled space age offroad thing. Was cool. I made a poorly constructed cardboard version when I was little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I can vaugely remember that too. might have been a post apocolyptic world perhaps? Â Krang and the terrordrome are from the tmnt's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Yeah I think it was post apocalyptic. My brother will remember.. will ask him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4nd Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Ark II?: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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