Keeping busy waiting for new FWC

[alano]

Ordered our FWC Hawk in early July and used the time since to put new tires (Firestone Destination ATs), and a backup camera (wireless) on the truck. Then just waited... and waited. Decided to turn my distress into productive effort yesterday and built this dollie for the camper I have yet to obtain. I think when pregnant women do stuff to prepare for the soon-to-come baby it is called "nesting". I nested.

About 4' x 6' x 3' made from 2x4s and a sheet of plywood plus some 4x4 to help mount the casters. Did pretty well on planning except I made the width beams 4' and so when dropped the plywood on the top it came out 3" short. Oops. Rather than take it all apart and correct it, I added a 3" strip of plywood to the short side As a former mechanical design engineer, it agrieves me to make this kind of mistake because I didn't bother to make a proper layout of my design. On the other hand, it's liberating to just scrawl something out on a scrap of paper and go out and build it.

Alan

 

[takesiteasy]

Nice job. Somewhere I saw one like that where they had put plywood on the lower part also to make a shelf to store camping stuff under the camper. I like that idea but I don't have enough ceiling height in my garage for a tall dolly like that. I wanted to be able to pop the top during storage so I had to make my dolly low to the floor. I hope your camper arrives soon.

 

[ski3pin]

Good to channel all that anticipation related energy. Congrats on your new camper. And, remember once you get it, don't sit around and admire it. A dirty camper is a happy camper.

 

[highz]

Congrats on pulling the trigger on the Hawk. Be sure to post a pic of it sitting on its dolly. Better yet, we'd all love to see pics from the inaugural voyage.

 

[ski3pin]

Congrats on pulling the trigger on the Hawk. Be sure to post a pic of it sitting on its dolly. Better yet, we'd all love to see pics from the inaugural voyage.

Do you have an update for us? Is it sitting on its dolly? Inaugural voyage?