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04-11-2013, 04:07 AM
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Flunked retirement, checking in
Hello everyone, we've been RVing since 1972 and did the "natural progression": couple years in a tent, then bunch of years in a 11 1/2 foot slide-on camper, "graduated" to 32 foot fifth, then 36 foot fifth and now we are pulling a 40 footer with an HDT.
Along the way we wore out four 1 ton pickups, one "wanabe" MDT and one International 4700 MDT. I did the above HDT conversion myself and then I couldn't stop myself, hence the "flunked retirement", here are few examples of my efforts. https://picasaweb.google.com/1015864...ckBedExamples#
We will be hanging around mostly on the HDT forum we have lots of friends in that group.
This is an impressive website, lots of things to "explore",
hjs
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04-11-2013, 04:38 AM
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Community Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Welcome to IRV2. Glad you're here.
Cliff
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04-11-2013, 05:13 AM
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Tiffin Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
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Welcome, and I think you are excelling in your retirement:>)
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Tom and Amy from Northern Virginia.
2000 Allegro 454/Workhorse P32/TST/Crossfire
Life is a DIY project, so own less and live more 
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04-11-2013, 06:53 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Nor'easters Club Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: NH
Posts: 5,099
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Bruce & Nancy
FMCA F280542
2004 Bounder 35E
US Navy Vet.
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04-11-2013, 07:37 AM
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Country Coach Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Ocala, Florida
Posts: 6,295
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 Welcome and glad to meet you!
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FMCA #F431170, GS #822128658, Escapees SKP #112655
2012 Airstream Mercedes Interstate Class B
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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04-11-2013, 07:38 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,771
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Welcome to IRV2! It's great to have you join us! 
That's an impressive rig!
Good luck, happy trails, and God bless!  
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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04-11-2013, 10:16 AM
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Community Administrator
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Marquette, Michigan "Da UP" & Lehigh Acres Florida
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That's some fantastic looking handiwork.
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John & Cathy R.
06 Pace Arrow 38L Workhorse W24
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04-12-2013, 08:07 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club Winnebago Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2011
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US Navy Vet, Liberty Tree Member of Oath Keepers, NRA & VFW Life Member, Alaska EMT.
2009 Safari Cheetah 40 SKQ
2009 Winnebago Chalet 231CR
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04-12-2013, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member
Thor Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 2,893
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I want one..Thanks for the pics
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04-12-2013, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Bessemer, Alabama
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Welcome to the forum. Nice looking rig!
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Bob and Janice Ford
1998 Fleetwood Pace arrow 35'
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04-13-2013, 08:41 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: somewhere in the west
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You are allowed to have a hobby in retirement.
Ed
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04-13-2013, 07:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
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Ed, you nailed it right on the head and identified two essential components of doing this, hobby and a retirement. Let's parse this statement.
1. Hobby - doing something that requires "investment" of substantial amount time and resources to accomplish something unique.
2. Retirement - a phase of ones life with unlimited amount of useless time just waiting to be channeled into something worthwhile.
Here's an example, close to 1,000 hours of engineering and CAD work.
Then several more months "guiding and supervising" the fab shop to reach this stage.
The whole project took almost 15 months and we will not talk about funds, but just check the smile (in the last picture) of the individual who commissioned this "project" to end up with something never done before.
The bed is all hydraulics and controlled by a remote control which he is holding. So far this bed is the only one in existence.
hjs
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04-13-2013, 07:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Powell River, B.C.
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Flunked retirement...... Demand a re-test
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99DSDP 3884, Freightliner, XC, CAT 3126B, 300 HP /ALLISON 3060
2000 Caravan toad, Remco & Blue Ox.
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04-14-2013, 05:39 PM
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Senior Member
Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Homosassa, FL
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Welcome to IRV2, those rigs are out of my league. I hope you can help some of us with how to advice. Look forward to see what's next from you.
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3 Humans,2 Dogs,1 Vision, sharing a Winnebago Sightseer 35J on a Workhorse Chassis. Allen, Donna, Drew, Bella & Pippy in the MH we call Glor-E-B!
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