Download or read book The Handmade Teardrop Trailer written by Matt Berger and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the road in style and comfort you built yourself... The road trip has been a celebrated American tradition for as long as there have been roads on which to travel. Combined with our love of the great outdoors, hitting the road in search of some peace under the stars is a goal for anyone old enough to drive -- even more so in today's hectic, wired world. Millennials and retiring boomers want to take a break, especially one that reflects their ever increasing simple and minimal mindset. Enter the Teardrop Trailer. First designed in 1930's for cars lacking power, they've re-emerged as a smart, aerodynamic, and eye-catching option for seeking out the quiet beauty that camping offers...but with plenty of comfort. Think of the tiny house movement going camping... Matt Berger's book The Handmade Teardrop Trailer: Design & Build a Tiny Classic Camper from Scratch hands you the keys to craft your own stylish adventure. The Handmade Teardrop Trailer guides you through the journey from sketchbook to first road trip, and will prepare you to design and build your own comfortable pull-behind Tiny Trailer. And, to achieve this you don't need much space, just a garage bay or shared workspace, and the most basic tools and materials available at your nearby hardware store or home center. Because we all have our own "get away from it all" road-trip fantasies when it comes to comfort, style, and purpose, The Handmade Teardrop Trailer will train you up like a pro on the basics of trailer design, backed up by deep research and experimentation. Illustrations provide measurements and construction details that are easy to adapt for variations in size and configuration and more than 100 step-by-step photos illuminate every detail in the design and build process. With this handy guide leading the way, you'll be shutting down the computer, storing the cellphone, and hitting the road to find some peace in a classic tiny trailer camper you built by yourself.
Download or read book Teardrops and Tiny Trailers written by Douglas Keister and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers. The demand for vintage trailers-the smaller the better-has risen dramatically in recent years, with the most in-demand trailers being "teardrops," first manufactured in the 1930s and containing just indoor sleeping space and an outdoor exterior kitchen. Also profiled in the book are "canned ham" trailers, whose shape resembles the profile of a can of ham; small-size examples of America's most beloved vintage trailer, the Airstream; miniscule gypsy caravans in Europe; and fiberglass trailers made in Canada. Two hundred color photographs showcase these trailers' sleek exteriors, retro-styled interiors, and, in many cases, the restored classic cars that tow them. Teardrops and Tiny Trailers includes a resource section chock-full of places to locate vintage trailers, clubs to join, and rallies to attend. Photographer/writer Douglas Keister has authored thirty-six critically acclaimed books. His books on classic recreational vehicles include Ready to Roll, Silver Palaces, and Mobile Mansions. In addition, he has authored twenty-five books on architecture, including Inside the Bungalow, Storybook Style, Red Tile Style, Classic Cottages, and Cottages. Keister also writes and illustrates magazine articles and contributes photographs and essays to dozens of magazines, newspapers, books, calendars, posters, and greeting cards worldwide. He lives in Chico, California.
Download or read book Building a Teardrop Trailer Plans and Methods for Crafting an Heirloom Camper written by Tony Latham and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you thinking about building a teardrop camper? Dreaming of hitting the road and heading to parts unknown? Are you ready to sleep in a cozy cabin on wheels and leave the flapping tent and hard ground behind?Teardrops are towed behind small vehicles in rainstorms with winds that a forecaster would classify as a hurricane. Their wheels drop into bottomless asphalt chuckholes. They are seen on the backroads running over washboards and kicking up dust plumes that can be seen for a mile. They shouldn't be built like a garden shed. Within these 194 pages-including 221 photographs and diagrams-Latham goes into detail on how to build a teardrop camper that will last a lifetime.In Building a Teardrop Camper, Latham shows you how to build insulated walls with a classic curved profile. He shows you how to build a galley hatch and doors that are dry and dust-proof. In the chapter on the undercarriage, he describes everything from the size of the steel to what axle needs to go underneath it. Other chapters cover wiring, heating, solar systems, propane plumbing and how to create an efficient galley.You will find all the details in this book needed to build a classy, comfortable, and durable teardrop camper.
Download or read book Trailerama written by Phil Noyes and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 800 images, including sheet music, greeting cards, and board games, this book shows how the travel trailer figured prominently in twentieth-century American pop culture.
Download or read book How to Back Up a Trailer written by Kurt Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents straightforward instructions for a number of specific manly activities related to automobiles, sports, the outdoors, home maintenance, socializing, and cooking.
Download or read book The Handmade Skateboard written by Matt Berger and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a custom skateboard of any shape and size, from a high-performance street deck to the classic longboard, that will turn heads everywhere you go. When you make your own skateboard from scratch you have the opportunity to create something that is perfectly tailored to you: a deck that matches your height, your weight, your center of balance, your skill level and your intended use. More importantly, making your own skate deck allows you to design a perfect ride to fit your style and makes a statement about who you are. There's nothing wrong with choosing off-the-shelf and mass produced, but who doesn't prefer to stand out. Be different. Be one of a kind. That's what you get with a custom handmade skateboard. Whether you are an accomplished woodworker or an absolute beginner, The Handmade Skateboard guides you step-by-step through building five skateboard designs; from a simple Hack Board built in a few spare hours to a high-performance street deck pressed from seven layers of high-quality Maple veneers. A design guide covers everything you need to know about sizing and shaping your deck and choosing the right trucks and hardware. And helpful photos, illustrations and detailed written instructions throughout provide all the information and motivation you need to make your own skateboard from scratch.
Download or read book Sisters on the Fly written by Irene Rawlings and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sisters on the Fly know they're having more fun than anyone! Now you're invited to join them on their cross-country road trips as author Irene Rawlings takes you inside the Sisters' decorated vintage trailers. Each trailer reflects its owner's personality, and the Sisters share their individual stories behind their loving restorations--and a few of the wilder outdoor adventures they've experienced along the way. The Sisters also share tips for buying and restoring vintage trailers because they know that once you see all the fun they're having fly-fishing, riding horses, camping, eating, laughing, and loving, you just might want to join their cowgirl caravan when it heads out for the next adventure. Sisters on the Fly will inspire readers with charming and witty anecdotes from the Sisters as they experience the open road and some of the most beautiful places in the country. It is organized around fishing, food, friendship, love, and loss. And, of course, around beautiful vintage trailers that have been lovingly transformed from "trashed to treasured." The book features dozens of engaging stories about the incredible women who buy and restore these trailers, as well as sidebars loaded with both practical and whimsical information for anyone who is ready to find her own trailer and join the caravan.
Download or read book Skoolie written by Will Sutherland and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School buses that have been converted into mobile living spaces — known as skoolies — are a natural extension of the tiny house craze. Buses are not only easier and safer to drive than an RV, they provide a jump-start on the conversion process with frame, roof, and floor already in place. Experienced builder Will Sutherland, whose creative school bus conversions have been featured in Road and Track and Popular Mechanics, is behind the wheel of this alluring look at life on the road. In addition to profiles of eight fellow skoolie fans and stunning photos of bus interiors designed for simple living, Skoolie! does what no other book on the subject has — it offers a complete, step-by-step guide to the conversion process, from seat removal to planning layout and installing insulation, flooring, and furnishings that meet your needs.
Download or read book Keep the Memories Lose the Stuff written by Matt Paxton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family’s china, and even the kids' height charts aren’t just stuff; they’re attached to a lifetime of memories--and letting them go can be scary. With empathy, expertise, and humor, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff, written in collaboration with AARP, helps you sift through years of clutter, let go of what no longer serves you, and identify the items worth keeping so that you can focus on living in the present. For over 20 years, Matt Paxton has helped people from all walks of life who want to live more simply declutter and downsize. As a featured cleaner on Hoarders and host of the Emmy-nominated Legacy List with Matt Paxton on PBS, he has identified the psychological roadblocks that most organizational experts routinely miss but that prevent so many of us from lightening our material load. Using poignant stories from the thousands of individuals and families he has worked with, Paxton brings his signature insight to a necessary task. Whether you’re tired of living with clutter, making space for a loved one, or moving to a smaller home or retirement community, this book is for you. Paxton’s unique, step-by-step process gives you the tools you need to get the job done.
Download or read book Building a Teardrop written by Jonathan Smith and published by Charlie Creative Lab. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build Your Own Teardrop Trailer: Learn & Design Everything fromScratchAre you thinking to build a teardrop trailer?Doyou have no idea from where to start to build your teardrop trailer?If so, thenkeep reading! Hello! Welcome to "Building a Teardrop". The bookguides you through the journey from sketchbook to first road trip and will prepare you to design andbuild your own comfortable pull-behind teardrop Trailer. In this book, illustrations providemeasurements and construction details that are easy to adapt to variations in size and configuration. A fun, beautifully illustrated book that will keep you reading into the night, as yourimagination wanders toward your trailer-build adventure! In this book, you willlearn how to build your own teardrop trailer cleverly as well as efficiently. Get creative and havesome fun by putting some personal touches on your own teardrop camper and enjoy more time aswell as fun in the great outdoors! This book will help you through the process of designing, building, and fitting-out your own teardrop trailer. Here's what makes this bookspecial: The foundation - How to use frames, wheels & lights How toinstall walls using wooden frames, add exhaust fan, metal roof, doors, windows, andfender The Galley and interior - How to install wiring, insulation, cabinets, andshelves The Finish - How to use a dye for the base exterior color, add a few layers ofepoxy to the finish Much, much more! This guide will showstep by step instructions on how to build a teardrop trailer with instruction on how to build it even ifyou are a complete beginnersInterested?Then Scroll up, Clickon "Buy now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!
Download or read book Building Your Tiny House Dream written by Chris Schapdick and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: · A comprehensive how-to guide to building your own tiny home from one of today’s leading designers and tiny house visionary – Chris Schapdick · Detailed opening chapters cover everything you’ll need to know before the build, including essential skills, tools, safety, and resources · Sections on building a tiny home are carefully laid out in progression from start to finish, from laying the foundation, framing, and roofing to plumbing, adding personality, towing, and more · Also included is an inspirational gallery of real completed tiny homes, as well as access to a how-to video of Chris building a tiny home project from beginning to end · Author of The Joy of Tiny Home Living, Chris Schapdick is the founder of Tiny Industrial, a tiny house building company, and he was awarded the “Best Tiny House Award” by the New Jersey Tiny House Festival in 2017
Download or read book The Toaster Project written by Thomas Thwaites and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch. In the end, Thwaites's homemade toaster—a haunting and strangely beautiful object—cost 250 times more than the toaster he bought at the store and involved close to two thousand miles of travel to some of Britain's remotest locations. The Toaster Project may seem foolish, even insane. Yet, Thwaites's quixotic tale, told with self-deprecating wit, helps us reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer culture, and in so doing reveals much about the organization of the modern world.
Download or read book Drink Progressively written by Hadley Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Hadley and TJ Douglas, the wine experts and owners of Boston's popular Urban Grape, Drink Progressively offers an easy and enjoyable method for discovering wines you'll love and expert advice on how to pair them with your favorite dishes. Urban Grape's 'Progressive Scale', a unique way of organizing wine from light-bodied to full-bodied, is all you need to make the puzzle pieces of wine fall into place. The lightest-bodied wines, comparable to skim milk in texture, start off the scale at 1, while the full-bodied wines, correlating to heavy cream, sit atop the scale at 10. Grasping this simple principle is the key to demystifying the challenge of food and wine pairings.."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Camper Rehab written by Chris Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camper Rehab is your top to bottom guide to getting any camper trailer ready to hit the road in a style to match your dreams.
Download or read book The Peace Love and Potato Salad Cookbook written by Zack Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a crowd-sourced $55,492 bowl of potato salad."
Download or read book Building Teardrop Trailer Handbook written by Elmer T Jasper and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Teardrop Trailer HandbookDetailed Guide on How to Amazingly Create Your Own DIY Teardrop Trailer Quickly Plus Instructional Steps to Complete It & Lots MoreTear trailers are a little, towable kind of RV. They are anything but difficult to perceive because of their unmistakable shape - round toward one side and tightened on the other. Since these RVs are little, they are lightweight and simple to tow. The least complex trailers comprise of a room on wheels. Bigger floor plans can have a bed, kitchen and feasting zone, and wet shower. And just to remind you, the ideal outdoors trailer resembles the ideal home on wheels. For the individuals who love the outside or camping yet need a portion of the enhancements of home, a little camper may be the ideal decision. They're more agreeable than resting in a tent and simpler to arrangement than a huge RV. Since they weigh close to nothing, they're anything but difficult to move into far off locales and most vehicles with a hitch can tow one. And if you are a lover of a DIY TEARDROP TRAILER, then this amazing guide will be of utmost help to you.Again, if you have the desire to create or build a DIY TEARDROP TRAILER, then this guide will be of help to you. That being said, the following will be made known to you: -What you need to know about DIY teardrop trailers-The weight of camp trailers as well as their cost and purchasing guide-Looking at your design and the materials as well as tools/devices needed for the construction-Step by step instructional guide to build teardrop trailers-Picking the correct trailers plus some alternatives-Consideration of your plan plus time span, and the legalities you should know, and so much more! SCROLL up and click the Buy Button NOW; you won't regret you did!
Download or read book Vintage Caravan Style written by Lisa Mora and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From shabby chic to rock 'n' roll heaven, restful craft room retreats to road-tripping travelling vans; from on-site artist studios and relaxing, reflective retreats, to travelling markets stalls and family summer holiday abodes; and from chandelier-clad glamping venues to the pride and joy of long-term nomadic lifestylers - there's a dream vintage caravan for everyone. Vintage Caravan Style takes the reader on a visual voyage through the world of vintage and retro caravans, exploring both the exterior and interior design of these classic icons. The book reveals the huge resurgence of interest in modern-vintage caravans - whether used for touring or as creative backyard spaces - and reveals how you can buy, restore and style a little capsule of retro heaven. Over 350 beautiful and inspirational photos sit alongside practical tips on restoring, upcycling, decorating and styling the small spaces of your dreams - whether you own a caravan, beach hut, shepherd's hut or even a shed - satisfying the desire to see inside other people's spaces and take inspiration from the small but perfectly formed spaces they have created.
