Trailers & 'BWSOW's

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 20th

Quite literally, a Shed On Wheels’

Horbury Bridge
Huddersfield Road/A642
Wakefield
(in the shadow of the disused railway viaduct)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Whilst at Wandahome, I saw this 2-berth
Quite basic, but it's less than a ton, at maximum weight!!

https://www.wandahome.co.uk/products/details/2024-bailey-discovery-d4-2.html

It looks odd, with a non-shrouded a-frame

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 21st

Granted, to some extent, the vehicles width/length of mirror-arms dictates this

BUT, if the vehicles mirrors are adjusted to cover the red area, the yellow area may be lost?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

No towing mirrors on this, as the text on the website l saw it on states that it's only 4 foot wide!
(thus narrower than the Freelander towing it)
I reckon it's only 8 foot long too, on a trailer chassis?

 

[kynikos]

What's interesting about the Bailey (and of relevance to rearwards vision) is that despite being short and light they've gone for 8 feet wide.

 

[figbat]

It looks odd, with a non-shrouded a-frame

Perhaps handy for adding an A-frame cycle carrier?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 20th

We’ve been earlier today, & bought another ‘porch-awning’
A PVC ‘all-season’,which has a 4-leg frame, so not simply reliant on the awning railings the van
https://www.isabella.net/uk/caravanning/porches/winter

SWMBO & myself are away next weekend, thus it’ll have to wait a while to be erected

View attachment 719344

I forgot!

With the intention being to leave it up all year round, we also bought some bigger pegs
To paraphrase Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee
”Those Aren’t Awning Pegs, These Are Awning Pegs!”

 

[Jameshow]

What's interesting about the Bailey (and of relevance to rearwards vision) is that despite being short and light they've gone for 8 feet wide.

Probably for standardisation of parts front and rear panels windows in particular....

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 3rd

Wife & f-in-l are over at the caravan
I’ve had a phone-call telling me there’s no water

It seems that the Truma body mounted inlet has cracked (recent frosts??)

I’m going to go to Wandahome shortly to have a look at one/cost
Apparently where the thin white pipe joins the larger diameter section

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 3rd

Wife & f-in-l are over at the caravan
I’ve had a phone-call telling me there’s no water

It seems that the Truma body mounted inlet has cracked (recent frosts??)

I’m going to go to Wandahome shortly to have a look at one/cost
Apparently where the thin white pipe joins the larger diameter section

View attachment 720642 enters the body

I had a trip over, there was one on the shelves, so I bought it & some mastic tape
I'm going up tomorrow, with daughter (& her b/f) to put the awning up, so we'll have a look at it
(I used our 10% discount card)

 

[DRM]

Was it not drained down when you parked it over winter? as well as draining ours down i always left the all taps, hot and cold water drain valves, and shower valve open as well so that nothing was liable to lurk in the pipe work, held there by vacuum.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@DRM

I have no idea, l was told it was
I wasn’t involved in the ‘wintering’ of it

 

[DRM]

@DRM

I have no idea, l was told it was
I wasn’t involved in the ‘wintering’ of it

You have to get every bit of water out, as any left in can split pipe work, taps etc, can be very expensive to repair

 

[Fastpedaller]

You have to get every bit of water out, as any left in can split pipe work, taps etc, can be very expensive to repair

I was asked to replace a 15mm copper supply pipe to a shower when we had the 'big freeze' on 2012 - Out of curiosity I measured the expanded pipe with my vernier it was 20mm. freezing water is very strong ...... it splits rocks!

 

[kynikos]

Best to blow out the last litre or so using compressed air when draining down for winter.