Hi Lee It is a mobile home which is towed by a vehicle out front.
Ours is what they call a pop top so when you get inside you grab a bar at each end and just pop up the top which is lowered for towing. We sold our other one which took a lot of setting up and went for one far easier to set up after arriving at each location. We are having a problem with the front brakes on our four wheel drive heating up when towing. after talking to Toyota about this problem they said we need to adjust our electric brakes on the Caravan so they come on just before the vehicle brakes so they start working this will then take the stress off the vehicle brakes and should stop them from trying to stop that weight more effectively. The concreting area has been enlarged somewhat, to now measure 44 feet by 18 feet this is the area now we are going to concrete. The bob cat comes in on Saturday to do the trim out and remove two trees which are in the way. Then next Thursday the contractor turns up with his boys to do the concreting so there will be quite a few trucks loads of ready mixed concrete to go in. This is what the wife wants I only wanted an area 18 x 18 but as usual the wife got her way again. Regards Ray Sent Thursday, 16 July 2009 3:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Concreting again ray, would you again describe what a caravan is? is this like a big pull behind camper / trailer? I ask as we have a Dodge Grand Caravan but that is considered to be a mini van. thanks.Lee On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:42:15AM +1000, Ray Boyce wrote: > Hi All > > Well we received our new caravan the other day and were able after some > difficulty to push it into the shed. > > The shed has an apron outside it but then it drops off into the yard and > because we have to disconnect the car off the van because we do not have the > width across the yard to leave the car on. > > We have to hand push it backwards the jockey wheel ratchet pusher slips on > the grass and the yard also has a hollow in the middle which all adds to > making it very difficult. > > So we have decided to concrete an area 18 x 18 in front of the apron so it > is easier to reverse push in this one and a half ton caravan. > > However because it is such a wide area we have this time asked for quotes > from some concreting contractors. > > I also have to cut down a New Zealand Christmas Bush which is about 18 feet > high which is in the way. > > This concreting area will have to be dug out and reinforcing mesh put in so > is going to be another expensive exercise but will save us a lot of gut > busting pushing when completed. > > I will keep you informed as the project proceeds. > > Ray > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller, "Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints" . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
