Recent content by NotThePainter

LOL, I just saw this on pirate and said, I should post this over at ex-portal. Neat truck.

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Oh that is so neat. Can you tell us where you got the shapefiles? I could try some conversions. And yeah, I think we'll just have to trust that the users don't drive off a cliff, the whole point of these roads is to be looking out the window, not down at your phone!

I bought a Furkot pass and download all 31 GPX files for the All American ones, like I suspected it was tedious. I should probably grab the others but wow, there's a lot of them.

The USA has quite a lot of info on scenic drives, the FHWA calls them America's Byways (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways) and you can also find the designation National Scenic Byway, the best of which are named All-American Roads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Scenic_Byway) The...

Nice build, you must have more pictures, especially the bathroom. Thanks!

I'm curious, what would be the weight limit on the roof? We have two sea kayaks, 45 and 62 pounds, but then you need to add 80 lbs of Thule Hullavators and then, I dunno, 20 lbs for other Thule cross bars etc... So call it 200 lbs. Can you drive with that load? Can you park and raise the roof...

It's a little old for us but it really has us thinking of building one like it. I thought the bed/sofa was not needed but my wife saw that and said, hey, hmmm, that could work. When the bed is extended, how much floor space do you still have? What's the length of the interior? This is such a...

Thanks so much for the planning and posting of this trail. We're in the early planning stages of doing this in a few years, once I retire. We're from New England so just getting there is a time commitment. We have a Jeep Wrangler but for various reasons we're thinking of not bringing it. I've...

When I first got my hi-lift I practiced in the driveway. The Jeep fell of the hi-lift, or almost did and I stopped before it did, but basically, you can't use these to lift a vehicle by the frame or bumper to change a tire. One of the problems is that our suspensions flex and the vehicle lifts...

Not mine, just saw it driving by https://www.leonsautocenter.com/2014_Ford_ESeries%20Cargo_Keene_NH_271894351.veh

I use a folder platform I got at my local hardware store. You can see one similar at amazon. http://a.co/b29TP6e We needed something big and tall because one of us isn't tall :- ) and we need to put the kayaks on top.