NOMADICISTA

sorry, no info other than the pic and that the owner built it himself..

Mike

Had a friend once named Marvin who was a traveling logger with a helicopter logging outfit, and he wanted his wife and kids near him, so he built a rather nice trailer home into a semi-trailer to take along on the road. It was all self contained of course, with large gen set, washer-dryer, huge fresh water and holding tanks, propane, etc- they could go for a quite a spell out in the woods before they needed fresh water or propane. They also had a nice big 5th wheel RV the wife pulled behind thier one-ton Ford pickup. If it was rainy out in the woods on the job, the kids had lots of room to play indoors in the trailer, and if Marv and his wife wanted quiet time, they could banish the kids to the big playhouse. Marv pulled the semi-trailer with a semi-truck to the different jobs, and had large storage sections under the floor of the trailer for tool storage. It was not something you wanted to take off road tho! And as the old song goes, it may take 40 acres to turn that rig around!

I was there in November and saw that rig. Hopefully next winter I'll get to knock on the door.
Where you ask?
Slab City.
Jerry

looks "cold"

Converting a single wide mobile home to fifth wheel would be a cheap way to go, but I just imagine the homebuilt one pictured is built more robust than a mobile home would be. Pretty cool idea. I was thinking there was a post on this site a long time ago from a fellow that was building a fifth wheel. I wonder if this is the same guy?

Mark B wrote:Converting a single wide mobile home to fifth wheel would be a cheap way to go, but I just imagine the homebuilt one pictured is built more robust than a mobile home would be. Pretty cool idea. I was thinking there was a post on this site a long time ago from a fellow that was building a fifth wheel. I wonder if this is the same guy?

Was it this one?
http://www.wayzalot.com/

This is where I found it.
http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/links.htm

Here is one for sale.
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/rvs/1607189804.html

53' tracker trailer convered to race/travel trailer.
2001 Volvo 770 Automatic Semi w/ 600,000 miles
30' living quarters
Master bedroom - Queen bed
Bathroom with full size shower
Kitchen - Convection oven/micro, dual frig's, stove top, LOTS of Cabnient space
Living room - Pull out bed

23' Garage
Full electrical panel
100 gal fresh water tank
70 gal gray
50 gal black
5 gal electric water heater
Dual heat pump units - Central heat/air
12.5 k ONAN Diesel Generator - Large enough to run a welder, compressor, and trailer

The trailer has jockey boxes all around with new paint, and stainless steel doors.
Perfect for lots of tools, tires, wood, or toys - anything

Trailer is not Finished, it still needs a few things done-
windows, painting inside, generator installed.

We have currentley been using the trailer in glamis, and works very well. just looking to downsize.

It would make a great project for someone, or for a race team.

Asking $55,000 for truck and trailer. ORB or Trade

Call if you want more information or pictures - 951-283-7063 951-283-7063

Wayzalo could be the one I was thinking of.

I saw that one on CL!

Mark