Federal Housetruck on HGTV

Post by **Sharkey** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:17 pm

(I'd swear that there was a topic around here about this truck that I could tack this onto, but I can't find it, so here's a new topic)

Got an email from Eric, who recently built a very correct housetruck on a 1952 Federal chassis that is very like Roger's:

Note the nice slide out!

Anyway, the point of this is to let those of you with "cable" know that the truck is featured in an upcoming episode of Home and Garden Television. Here's a copy-and-paste from Eric:

>
> About a year ago a TV crew from HGTV came by and spent a day taking
> pictures of our housetruck for a show called Look What I Did on HGTV.
> It will finally air on April 16th at 3:00 PM. Hope the schedule does
> not change between now and then. They will probably boil down 3 hours
> of film to about 5 minutes on air.
>
> Hope you get a chance to watch it, or record it (I know we will do
> both).
>
>
> Eric & Debra
>

Roger is going to try and record it so I can get a chance to see the episode (no cable out here in the sticks)

Dj · Post by Dj » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:47 pm

That's a nice looking truck.

Any more pics?

Post by **Sharkey** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:59 pm

Yeah, I had two more images, but I just went to look at them and both are corrupted.

glee17 · Post by **glee17** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:05 am

I just checked HGTV's site and they say 6:00 for both eastern and pacific time zones.

There are five segments to the show so be quick with the record button.

Geoff

j_nigrelli · Post by **j_nigrelli** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:51 pm

i'll bet some techno-wiz could get it on the forum....!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:09 pm

j_nigrelli wrote:i'll bet some techno-wiz could get it on the forum....!

I hope, I hope, I HOPE!!!

captainkf · Post by **captainkf** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:53 pm

Oh, that would be sooooo great! Some of us don't have cable, or mabye I'm the last one left?!?

-Richard

Post by **Sharkey** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:58 pm

Some of us don't have cable -or- broadband internet, so even if one of you manages to "youtube it", I'll have to wait for the VHS version...

Post by **Sharkey** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:57 pm

OK, Roger turned me on to some of his photos of Eric's Federal (thanks, Roger, especially for reducing the size so my email wouldn't choke up).

Here's five to give everyone an idea of what they are going to see on HGTV:

j_nigrelli · Post by **j_nigrelli** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:59 am

i Assumed the bump outs slid in until seeing these photos... or is there something i'm not understanding? wouldn't it be too wide otherwise?

j

Truckingturtle · Post by **Truckingturtle** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:12 pm

Yes the bump outs do slide in. I do not know how Eric did it but he did it out of all wood. He said he would use more medal in hin sight. Ill try to get some photos of the truck with the bump outs closed up. Some day Im going to find out how he did it so I can do bump outs in the housetrailer I want to build somt day.

Roger

maldoran · Post by **maldoran** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:34 pm

it is so nice to see another house truck being built in this day and age. where is eric from? i sent some photos of my gypsy wagon truck last year that sharky put up. kevin from connecticut.

Post by **Sharkey** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:56 am

Looks like this episode is still on track for tomorrow night:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hlwid/ep ... 62,00.html

Also appears that it will be repeated on June 19th, althoug you should'nt use that as an excuse to not tape a copy now, Roger!!

Post by **Sharkey** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:40 pm

So, what's the story? Anybody catch the HGTV episode?

Truckingturtle · Post by **Truckingturtle** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:45 pm

YES!!!! I got a tape of it and watched it. it shows how he did the pull outs all out of wood.

Roger

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Federal Housetruck on HGTV

Federal Housetruck on HGTV

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