You Ain't Right Club

[Cammalu]

Maki what camper do you have? I’ve had some pretty cool tiny ones and would like to buy another for weekend trips when I’m in KY.

[highdesertranger]

"I drove a tractor once, It was fun"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that wears off fast enough. try plowing 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for weeks on end. 1 person drives from 5am to 5 pm another person drives from 5pm to 5am.

highdesertranger

[Qxxx]

"I drove a tractor once, It was fun"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

When I was growing up, on the farm next door my neighbor had her 3 YO son in her lap, and was teaching him to drive the tractor. They start them young around there on the farms. She complained that the kid just wouldn't get serious about what he was doing.

[maki2]

I have a 1971 Trailswest Campster.  It was made by a company in Oregon, they were in business from 1968 thru 1971. Mine was used as someones backyard storage shed for a lot of years. I bought it as a fixer and indeed it was one. The only original thing about it that will remain when I get my build finished is the fiberglass shell and even it needed some repair work but not what I would call major fiberglass repair, just a few cracks, one hole, some areas to fill in where old fittings for electrical and plumbing came through the shell. But it was worth it to have a trailer that I can pull with my Honda Element which is an AWD 4 cylinder. It is low enough not to cause a lot of wind resistance but the popup roof area gives plenty of standing head room in the galley area.  Took all the parts I purchased and the steel tubing my friend cut and drilled for me over to the welder's this morning. Late next week I should have a brand new trailer frame to see me safely down the road a couple of months from now
   
   

[jacqueg]

I have a 1971 Trailswest Campster.  It was made by a company in Oregon, they were in business from 1968 thru 1971. Mine was used as someones backyard storage shed for a lot of years. I bought it as a fixer and indeed it was one. The only original thing about it that will remain when I get my build finished is the fiberglass shell and even it needed some repair work but not what I would call major fiberglass repair, just a few cracks, one hole, some areas to fill in where old fittings for electrical and plumbing came through the shell. But it was worth it to have a trailer that I can pull with my Honda Element which is an AWD 4 cylinder. It is low enough not to cause a lot of wind resistance but the popup roof area gives plenty of standing head room in the galley area.  Took all the parts I purchased and the steel tubing my friend cut and drilled for me over to the welder's this morning. Late next week I should have a brand new trailer frame to see me safely down the road a couple of months from now

Now that's cute as all get-out.

[HalfShadows]

That is a great looking setup Maki!

[crofter]

Qxxx, My rant was not directed to you.  ....But sometimes, it gets tiring to think that being poor is some level to aspire to.  

Couple things, being a minimalist is different from being poor. On this forum there are many minimalists and those with minimalist goals who may or may not have any money. The minimalist mindset is something a person may come to after reflecting on their society and the many useless expenditures of time, energy, and money that are made usually by themselves, but also by society as a whole which we are part of. When I built my van, a minimalist part of the design was to eliminate systems that require electricity or water from the van. Some on this forum spend a lot of time fitting air conditioning into their van designs. I spend a lot of time tracking the weather, and adjusting to temperature changes without using electricity, because that is the kind of minimalism I am into. I do use water to adjust my body to temperature changes (water mist, wet down my hat, go swimming, etc), but it is not water that requires a plumbing system in the van to use. One difference between my van and a factory made RV, is the presence/ absence of a water system, and there are many more systems in a factory RV that I have chosen NOT to have in my van. There is nothing good or bad about choosing a minimalist way of doing things. Minimalism is a quality of life choice. My life is better when I am closer to a simple way of doing things, when I do not occupy my mind with gadgets or worse, malfunctioning gadgets. My time is better spent watching the sun set, than worrying about whether all the lights will come on when it gets dark. Etc, etc, etc.... At the risk of posting a rant in a joke thread....    ~crofter

[Qxxx]

yea they pretend to joke at ya but they mean what they say......LOL   who are we kidding here

jokes are ways of getting at ya and pretending ya don't mean what you say 

Darn nab it, have I ever got it sideways. I thought we came to the YARC thread to be totally 100% upsidedown serious. We say what we mean. and we mean what we say. Some of us are just plain mean.

[crofter]

Darn nab it, have I ever got it sideways. I thought we came to the YARC thread to be totally 100% upsidedown serious. We say what we mean. and we mean what we say. Some of us are just plain mean.

Oh sorry I forgot the punch line (why I never tell jokes).  So was it the wild man, the mountain wind, or Big Bird?     ~crofter

(This post was last modified: 10-23-2019, 10:09 PM by crofter.)

[moontiger]

@maki2 That camper is so dang cute!

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