gypsy wagon

 Led lights have been installed along with the number plate. The trailer is registered as a bulk carry trailer and the box is the load.part of the floor has been laid, it is second hand flooring Australian hardwood.

 Vapor barrier installed

  Expanding foam seals the gaps.

More of the vapor barrier.

Warning! Do this at your own peril.

Cleaning small engine parts and gear box parts Get an old dishwasher and place it in the corner of the yard away from flammable materials, disconnect the pump out pump, and block up the hoses . Load the machine and poor in diesel and water and set the machine going. Use the low heat setting until you get game to use the high heat setting. I used old petrol thinners and any thing I could use that was cheap. I used this for many years with out any dramas. In the end it was high heat with steam emitting from the machine. The parts came out clean as a whistle but you have to spray machine surfaces with rust retardant as the parts would rust within hours,

Gypsy type wagon

It took some time to cut the timber to suit the iron.

Thoughts and quotes

.....Who ever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Whom said this?
I would like to make a quotation of my own "Any man who plants more than one plant in his life time does more for society than all the politicians of the world"



Answer; Jothathan Swift Gullivers Travels

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 This shows the end wall being screwed and glued into position. These are tongue and grove cypress pine flooring from an old house.

 The wall has been trimmed to shape.

 The final shaping has been done to this wall

 The stove in its relative position in the wagon.

These are recycled hardwood tongue and grove floor boards from a old dismantled house.

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 The main frame is from 20mm square tube and is mig welded the trailer is what is termed as a bulk carry trailer and the tube is just the load. It is cheaper to register than a caravan by 200 dollars a year.

The boys a Bomaderry engineering did a great job straight and true. The type of wagon is called a bow top wagon. As I said before I am not a gypsy so it is not a gypsy wagon unless I sell it to a gypsy.