Popular Post 64valiant Posted December 20, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2018 Hi my names Greg, You may know me from such places as Gregs Ice Cream. https://www.facebook.com/Gregsicecreams/ Or other places like Midnight Upholstery Ltd, Greg's drag snags and so on. Anyway the time has come. I got sick of bidding on rubbish caravans and them blowing out of budget so its now my turn to build one that will hopefully stay under budget. Well really it started with liking ice cream and realizing how easy it is to buy ice cream and it takes nothing to sell it, and a word to my accountant while the wife was with me it wasn't to hard to twist @Mrs 64valiant arm into allowing me to get the go ahead on it. And yeah caravans going out of budget, so time to build a caravan. I ended up drawing what i thought would look good on the floor at the shop, its based of a size of caravan i was looking at buying Worked out how much steel i would need and worked a price on everything else and got the go ahead. let the fun begin. ideally would like up and running before the end of Feb and the very latest March 26 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muncie Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I hope you call this midnight icecream. Make Scotch and sultana icream I'll be your most reliable customer. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 i had planned on building this in steel, including the main hoop. to end up searching trade me for some windows while I amm meant to be working and come across this. built all in wood...... dont know how i really feel about this. have also started a spread sheet on what i priced a few things up verse how much i end up spending all up. visited a mate who works at TWL in hamilton and picked this up this morning too. 5x114.3 i have a set of 15 inch globes here for the dummy fit but ideally i think i would like a set of old 15 inch steelies painted black with some white walls. has anyone got two 15 inch steelies laying around that would like to trade for some ice cream? 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrx7 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 awesome man, good luck with the build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transom Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 Steel tube thin wall 1.2 or 1.6 so much better than wood for a caravan - you may be able to get some of those curves rolled if you can figure out what radius you need will save a lot of pie cutting 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostchips Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 On 21/12/2018 at 10:21, 64valiant said: i had planned on building this in steel, including the main hoop. to end up searching trade me for some windows while I amm meant to be working and come across this. built all in wood...... dont know how i really feel about this. have also started a spread sheet on what i priced a few things up verse how much i end up spending all up. visited a mate who works at TWL in hamilton and picked this up this morning too. 5x114.3 i have a set of 15 inch globes here for the dummy fit but ideally i think i would like a set of old 15 inch steelies painted black with some white walls. has anyone got two 15 inch steelies laying around that would like to trade for some ice cream? I think i do. Might have 4. They were cop rims so whatever size those are... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8Pete Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 When I saw the pic, I thought you'd bought a car trailer to convert into a caravan, but that was just to cart the steel 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted December 22, 2018 Author Share Posted December 22, 2018 Yea I ain't baller enough to buy a car trailer and then make it useless. That's just me steeling @Archetypes trailer so we could move the steel from one location to the next. Turns out his trailer is also about the right size I want to build my caravan so will use his trailer for a few messurements as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2019 day one of making this caravan. i had been meaning to make one for the shop for a while but 1st things 1st. 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early jap nuter Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Hi what did you use for the curtain? PVC? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 its actually welding curtain pvc material. i ordered a bunch in for myself when the rep showed me it. this stuff comes 1.9 tall and on how ever much you want or need. the size of my certain that i made is 1.4 x 1.8 meters only having to fold and sew the edges 50mm but could easily make a taller one, or join it to make a bigger one. hope that helps @Early jap nuter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early jap nuter Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 also this is what i have got my measurements from (well trade me) its 4.1 long and 2.1 wide im going to go 2.2 wide, once i line the inside and allow the box section it will be close to 2.1 inside. And 4.05 long as thats what size the acm product comes. this caravan is also 2.2 tall again making it close to 2.1 inside standing up 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 How low can you get it? Lay frame for customer service? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzurro Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 watching this closely...for a friend* *Food/coffee cart is my 'fuck all this' back-up plan Are you doing soft serve, icepops or rolled? [trigger/] I used to work in a beach shop that had rolled ice cream and fuck saying all the flavours and then rolling that sticky shit all day, for entitled kernts and their whining spawn. packet ones are way easier - they point at the thing, you take the money, they go [/trigger] . 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 Going to do rolled ice creams. It's just the man I am. Will probably do soft drinks and coffee as well. Soft surve and real fruit is nice but I'd rather not the extra cost of machines. I think I might have to head over to the coffee chat room and read about coffee as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Sounds hardcone doing multiple products tbh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 Money and business. Stuff is pretty hardcore in general. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB8-TypeR Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 There is a gazebo that sets up near the river in Whakatane, just does icecream sundaes starting at $5, has eftpos so is busy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 46 minutes ago, 64valiant said: Money and business. Stuff is pretty hardcore in general. My point is more fitting all the gear for more than one product in a caravan and having able to be set out in a quick to use at peak times and clean down friendly layout 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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