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We have a custom-made 600-pound gun safe made for ours. We're going to keep it, our battery bank, and our fresh and grey water tankage as far forward as we can. If you try to use a 20-foot box, you're gonna end up with a lot of your weight pretty far back, which will make the vehicle less stable...

We went through all these issues with ours- chopping the top to keep us under 13'6", shortening the container (we didn't want that much box swinging behind us when turning tightly), chopping the bottom to eliminate the empty space below the container's floor, cutting and bracing door and window...

We are located outside of Waco. As soon as the ice started accumulating, I pulled our MTVR motorhome out of the shop and parked it next to the house, as it has a small CAT generator mounted to it. We only lost power for about an hour, but I'm thankful that we had the generator.

Cool! What's going on with your exhaust system there?

I've got a 14-page thread on our MTVR camper build with pictures and stuff- about the first four pages starts off with us winning a GovPlanet auction, continuing through the delivery, and about the last 9 pages covers our build thus far... ...but in the middle, there is a few pages where the...

I like the idea...

The WORST thing you could do, would be to to not wear your seatbelt. There is nothing energy-absorbing inside these vehicles- you could die even if you don't get ejected (although a LOT of unrestrained vehicle occupants are ejected). You could die even if the vehicle doesn't roll over...

That is completely divorced from reality- watch the video in this thread of the rollover at 45 mph, and you should realize that the forces involved are light-years beyond any human's ability to control where their body goes.

The thing about having (or adding) a roll bar or roll cage to a vehicle that most people don't understand, is that in order for it to offer you a reasonable amount of protection, the main hoop needs to be within about 6" of your head. And if you conk your unprotected head on it in a crash, it...

In going back through this thread, I am not seeing an explanation of what appears to be a really crappy job of paneling the interior right before our trip, so here it is now: After we cut and fit the wall and ceiling insulation, it was too cold to foam it in place before our trip. One night...

We already have a ladder. A $440 folding aluminum one with a custom-made drop-down mounting bracket and quick-release pins. It's detailed in our build thread: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/just-purchased-an-mtvr.194777/

It's all in this thread, starting at about page 5: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/just-purchased-an-mtvr.194777/

Yeah, they were very nice- they gave us free T-shirts...

It is surprisingly roomy. When we moved to Texas, we had three LARGE animal kennels, a queen bed for my wife and I, a single bed for our daughter, a toilet, a hot plate, laptops, a heater, a large cat tree, a Christmas tree, food/water/clothing for all three of us, pet food bins for all the...

Ours is 16 feet long and 8 feet wide. The departure angle is fantastic, even without an angled cut on the back. No cut means: 1. More square footage of floor space. 2. Our back porch is larger. 3. Our back porch is lower. (approximately the same level as our floor)

Let's see if I can post a few pics from our move to Texas, just because:

I thought I had already made a post back around Thanksgiving stating that our MTVR motorhome project is going to be on hold while we focus on getting our new ranch sorted out, but I guess I dropped the ball. My apologies to anyone checking this thread for updates. I went back through all 13...

It sounds like a lot of the issues you're facing, are issues that we've dealt with...

I'm not saying that it would be legal (or safe), but you might be able to widen the passenger bench seat to seat 3 plus the driver. The stock passenger bench seat is designed to seat 2, with a gap between it and the driver's seat.