Tiffin Motor Home
This luxury class A diesel pusher is a 2016 model by a company called Tiffin Motorhomes, and it’s been shown for sale on a number of motorhomes for sale sites recently.
It looks like this model, the Allegro Bus, is their flagship model, or at least one of their flagships.
They also have smaller Allegro and Allegro Red models.
Some standout features of this class A motor home:
45 feet long (can get them shorter as well) and 7 foot high ceilings. Powerglide chassis with IFS (independent front suspensions). The interior is decorated with Villa furniture and the wood for the unit is glazed honey natural cherry. It has a luxury-level energy management system, and can be built with as much as 180 cubic feet of storage in the basement.
It also has an air level system, a 10kw generator and solar panels, molded underfoor heating (yes, heated floors), queen sized bed, washer/dryer, fridge, dishwasher, and two bathrooms.
It’s powered by a 450 horsepower ISI Cummins engine and has an Allison 3000MH-6 gearbox.
It’s built to sleep four people.
The Allegro Bus is also one of their bestsellers. You can visit Tiffin Motorhomes (click here).
Classic Motor Home
Here the owners of this Peterbilt tractor converted their unit into a custom motorhome. There’s the custom motor home part, and there’s the custom car hauler as well. So these owners are taking their ar (probably a car to fit in that hauler) with them on the road and driving around.
It’s interesting to have a self contained RV unit like that. The idea of having everything being able to be pulled along at once. The car isn’t separate, the garage isn’t separate. It’s all hooked up to the motor home, which includes an engine and wheels.
These two parts have matching paint on this custom rig.
The chassis is a 1967 Peterbilt — already it has that classic element to it — and it’s powered by Cummins NTC350 / 400 motor. It was upgraded to 400 horsepower. It also has a RTO 125-13 Road Ranger gearbox.
This unit has a custom interior as well, although we don’t get to see it (just the steering wheel). It came up for sale a while back and the owner described it at least. I think it came up on the Hemmings RVs for sale section. You can visit them here (click here).
Motorhome interior:
– custom cabinets (dark oak)
– wall safe (attached)
– microwave, fridge with gas/electric power
– tile floors and carpeted floors
– custom drapery
– custom bedding and cushions
– combo bath / shower
For motorhome amenities, it has a Kabota 7500 watt generator and roof mounted ACs. Dual propane furnaces, a 140 gal water tank,
The total length of this motor home I’m not sure about. The trailer itself is 25 feet long.
New Luxury Motorhome
Let’s look at the interior of this new luxury motorcoach by Newmar — called the “King Aire” for those of you who didn’t recognize the coach photo above.
The dash is graphite, as is the steering wheel — all power — and there’s separate heat control for drivers and passengers seats in this RV. They also have cooling for the seats in the new models.
They use a radio with navigation system and a computer system that switches between the chassis and the house, and there’s the collision-avoidance system that helps prevent this custom coach from crashing into other RVs or other vehicles on the road. The dash is ergonomic.
All the control panels throughout the RV unit are all controlled by the Silverleaf control system. Heat, AC, floors, diagnostics, all can be viewed on the screen above the drivers seat.
New 45 X 19 floor plan. Windows have been widened from previous models. There are two recliners in the main area, and tiles on the floors. The hydraulic slides don’t sit on the floor, they hover above it.
They use fabrics for the interior by Ralf Lauren, and they have two new kinds of wood for the interior: “Cashmere rift oak” and “Havana rift oak” which provide options for looks.
Take a loot at the interior photos of this new custom coach Newmar is selling. Read more, click here. For best viewing, use a large screen.
Beading A Ladder Bracelet – DIY
Have you beaders out there ever tried laddering with beads? It’s a technique where you use almost any variety of beads and thread them between two cords of thick string (or leather, as in this case). The beaded bracelets are a popular DIY project.
Two important questions a lot of people ask before they start, according to Brittany at Beadshop, is how long does the sting of leather need to be and how long does the thread need to be that weaves around it. Measure around your wrist and multiply that length by 6 if you’re making a 3-wrap bracelet, she advises. And for thread, 5 yards for a 3-wrap, and 6-7 yards for a 5-wrap bracelet.
Materials you’ll need:
-Measuring tape
-Shears
-Perfect End thread burner
-Tweezers
-GS hypo-cement
-Button of choice
-Leather string (1.5mm)
-KO thread (dark brown)
-rattail thread
-pearls (3-4mm)
Brittany recommends starting with just 1 wrap if it’s your very first time doing this type of project.
When making the bracelet, you’ll start from the button end and proceed down to the loop end.
The main technique involved is “laddering” itself. The way to do this, basically, is to take 2 thread ends and thread them through a bead in opposite direcetions, then repeat. Picture a pearl bead with two threads coming out in 2 directions. These 2 threads wrap around the leather string and then enter into the next bead and then around the leather thread again. The 2 leather threads are the posts of the ladder, and the beads are the rungs.
Visit Beadshop for the full details on beading this ladder bracelet (click here). (Image at the top courtesy Beadshop with permission.)
Future Truck
This Peterbilt Sentinel concept truck is one of many possible long-base trucks Peterbilt is working on.
While being a purposeful vehicle — almost everything we have in our houses and workplaces was at some point transported by a big truck — vehicle design is important to many drivers because the models become icons for their sensibilities and aethetics.
The trucks are also bases from which customization begins, for many owner-operators. That means that trucks that have more room for customization (for example, the Peterbilt 379 that is perhaps the most famous customized truck) is a fairly simple design, but has several physical components that each allow customization easily.
The boxiness is perhaps a big part of this — rounded, modern looking vehicles perhaps don’t allow the same level of customization.
This is a Luigi Colani design, but, according to some, the truck design was too different from Peterbilts existing model aesthetics to be used — at least for now. Maybe the Sentinel or some of its design features could be used in the future, as the design has its fans as well as its critics.
Eun Mara
This sailboat is Bruce Avery’s Minna, which is the original Eun Mara. It was posted by a wooden boat enthusiast who goes by the name of Kaa, and we wanted to see if we could find the plans for this boat, and a little more information about it.
There are plans available for this boat online. As well as specs for it.
Here are the specifications (note: traditional plank optional):
LOA: 6.00 m – 19′ 8″
Beam: 2.00 m – 6′ 6″
Draft: 0.43 m – 1′ 4″
Sail Area: 22.30 sq m – 239.95 sqf
Weight: 680.00 kg – 1496 lbs
Displacement: 1050 kg – 2300 lbs
Crew: 4
Plans for it are being sold at Oughtred Boats (click here to visit them). The 19.8 foot boat plans are offered there for $565.00. They also offer kits for the Eun Mara boat build, so you get the materials plus the boat plans. There was not price listed for the boat kits, though, although they have a button to contact them.
I’ve read quite a few comments on this boat, saying it’s Oughtred’s best non-rower, although some say the best is Rowan.
Crochet slippers
Crochet slippers are sometimes a winter project, but especially in the cooler climates they can be for any time of year. For crocheter Tanya though, they’re something that make her feel good to make in Fall. She thought of this crochet slipper project in order to “prepare for a little coziness” and give her a snug, comfortable feeling.
The crochet project is not a difficult one. It took her only an afternoon, she said.
Crochet project supplies:
- wool (in the photo above she used 2 colors, pink and grey, and she used 100% merino wool)
- 2 crochet hooks: 4.5 mm and 5 mm
How these slippers are made: start off by crocheting rounds starting from the toe. The toe is all one color. Once it is complete, crochet rows for the sole of the foot/ sides of the slipper (it’s a flat piece but when the heel is crocheted, the sides will curve up.
You will also need to consider your own foot size. The slippers in the picture above were made to fit Tanya’s own feet. To adjust for shoe size or length, different parts of the pattern can be adjusted.
To see the free crochet pattern, visit Tanya at Little Things Blogged (click here) (which uses a CC licence).
Big Studio Sleeper
This big studio sleeper Kenworth is one of the biggest sleeper units I’ve ever seen. It looks like a house’s living room could maybe fit in there.
This giant sleeper semi has an uncertain origin, so anybody out there who knows this truck, let us know about it.
It seems to have been posted by a pinner named D Van, but it was also posted to a Russian social media website called VK around a year or so ago. Both of those are just social media where a lot of stuff gets shared, so we’re still trying to find out who owns this giant rig, and how they use it? Is it commercial? Or is it even for hire?
People have already commented on this truck and its size. Sean Lambert joked, “Does it come with it’s own intersections? Cause you’re not getting around any of the older ones without big issues. At least not in NY, NJ and most of New England.” Or maybe “didn’t joke.”
And Chris Orren Corkum commented, “Taking camping to a new level with this rig….just needs a big o boat on a trailer on the back end and off you go…lol.”
UPDATE: Thanks to Plains, Trains member Mark Hollingsworth, we now have more information on this truck. Thanks, Mark!
It was made by ARI Legacy Sleepers, back in April of 2013, for a husband-and-wife team, Larry and Sarah Hendrix. The truck has a motorcycle lift / side door on one side. The sleeper unit is a 230-inch sleeper, done by ARI. You can visit ARI Legacy Sleepers by (clicking here).
